I love unconferences held in the barcamp/open space style, love attending, love presenting, love facilitating. I know lots of others who do to. Every time I do one, everyone’s buzzing about how great it was. We put the focus on connecting people with each other rather than facing forward and listening to us and it…
Last night I was idling on twitter and saw Simon Gough ask: “Anybody who just watched that #bbc4 programme on automata: any idea what the music at the end was?” He got one reply quickly from @nataliecvincent who suggested using Shazam, but there was no answer straight away. Putting aside my chagrin at having missed…
I made this on the bus and posted it to instagram. I got a new phone last week and I haven’t got a proper case or screenguard for it yet, so I’m keeping it in the plastic sleeve that it was packaged in. This is what the view from the top of a 28 bus…
So today in my tumblr stream I saw Amanda Palmer doing her ninja gig thing in NZ: and it reminded me of this (photo CC BY-NC by Benjamin Ellis) And I thought “maybe this is a thing, given the portability of ukuleles, lots of people must do this, it can’t just be me and Ms…
I’ve been here a year but I’ve been neglecting you a bit. Where? Well, to most people I say “Wandsworth, just by the bridge”. For those who drive around South London, you know by Wandsworth Bridge there’s a drive-thru McDonalds? By there. Party people will know it as “just by The Ship”. People who work…
These are rough, not even half-baked thoughts on the Monday after the month before. Like anything not properly cooked through, munching on them quickly or unconsciously may give you a tummy-ache. Take it (and my mixed metaphors) with a pinch of salt. I reserve the right to change my mind about all of this later…
Tabs left open after Tuttle today, ie things I looked at or showed people. Bromsgrove Silver Jubilee Parade (video 3 mins) Barbican 1969 (video 20 mins) The Garner Innovation/Hype Cycle (image) In Business: Regenerating Margate (iplayer audio 30 mins) FreakyTrigger (website) Bob Dylan’s bait & switch Unmoored (website) ArtAngel (website) Joanna Zylinska (biog) Bachelard (wikipedia)…
I love writing and editing in Fargo. It really works for me to organise my thinking this way. I’ve been posting to my wordpress.com blog through Fargo since the gateway was introduced. I like that too, no more messing with all the bells and whistles of the wordpress interface, just the clean writing window and…
I got a bit distracted there with housekeeping/community stuff. Back to the thing I was thinking about business model frameworks. If you’re not familiar with my work (or even if you are but you’re not sure what I’m talking about) then have a poke around this bunch of links. So for me, the bit that…
The “tragedy of the commons” is a metaphor used to describe (according to Wikipedia) “the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one’s self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group’s long-term best interests”. I noticed it creeping in at the Barbican yesterday for…