I have downloaded a number of my posterous blogs and they’ve been sitting there looking at me. I also made a resolution recently to get as much of my stuff together under lloyddavis.co.uk. That meant some faffing with domain registrations, hosting and DNS but I finally got that sorted out last week. I made a…
I’m always tempted to stay overnight, but I’ve never actually done it. I may not have slept perfectly last night anyway, but I’m sure it was better than lying on a corporate head office meeting room floor. People did come to my early morning session on “the future of blogging?” despite being up against an…
I missed doing any sort of participant intros, it’s a good way to set up the day and it does more to make people feel part of the organisation than any amount of telling them that it’s all about them. I confirmed for myself that I understand github well enough to use it (I thought…
I gave people the lowdown on why we’re doing it, what we’re doing, how far we’ve got, what we need now: why we’re doing it The Barbican Centre approached Charles Armstrong to produce something for the month of August while the concert hall and theatre space are being refurbished. Charles sensibly asked some of his…
The first Big Picture Day happened on Saturday at the LimeWharf space in Vyner Street – it was an unconference/hackday/jam to work through stuff about improving unconferences/hackdays/jams. 0. This is a pattern that’s grown out of the #ukgovcamp community – write a blog post on the day after or as soon as you can, just…
I’ve been through four crowd-funding campaigns myself now. It’s not an experience I would heartily recommend to friends, although I think a lot more learning has been done now about what works. I was, at times, turned into a link-spouting push-marketer of the worst kind, but I also got to do some cool stuff and…
This is a not a very interesting post demonstrating something that’s a bit mind-blowing. I’m writing this in Fargo, the web-based HTML5 outliner from Dave Winer’s new company. It hit version 0.54 today and now includes posting to a wordpress blog. So I’m trying it out. I mean, I’m trying out the wordpress functionality –…
This from the Bromsgrove Messenger in December 1982, I guess. I do mostly remember this production for the thing the reviewer picked up where we repeated 14 pages of the first act because we got lost. I’m pretty sure I was hamming it up appallingly, and I probably was doing a lot of “face acting”…
I’ve heard and read lots of people over the last couple of days telling us what Margaret Thatcher did to harm them and make their lives more difficult. Her sins are then recounted to make it clear how right this person is that it was her fault. But as that well-known “terrorist” Nelson Mandela said…
I spent a day last week at #unschool13 an unconference called by Simon Gough to “explore learning outside school together”. I qualified both as a parent of two young people who’ve had unconventional school experiences and as a witness to the learning powers of unconferences and gatherings like Everything Unplugged and of course #tuttle. All…