Yes, on 15th February five years ago, the London Social Media Cafe which was soon to become better known as The Tuttle Club held the first regular meetup at the Coach & Horses in Greek Street and we’ve done the same thing (more or less) somewhere or other every week (give or take) since then….
I had a long period of TV abstinence beginning in about 2004 (I guess it was about when I started writing here – something had to go to make time for it). But Netflix has drawn me back into fairly regular TV watching because it’s totally under my control and it makes a decent fist…
Karin sat in Caffe Nero and waited for her soup. When it came she heard a laugh, well, more of a snigger, but not a cruel one. “Your soup matches your dress!” The guy sitting at the next table was grinning and looking at her. She tried to work out whether he was being an…
[Written in a notebook while I was in Cardiff in October 2012] “A quiet morning on the street, the rain hasn’t yet kicked in but the cold wind tells you that it isn’t far off. It’s time for the town’s drunks to converge on the Spar to buy their first tins of the day. Not…
It doesn’t matter how many times you write it out or make a list, do it. There’s a voice that says it’s avoidance of really doing something, but it’s not. It’s progress. It’s getting today’s thought out on the page. Today’s thought leads to today’s action.
I’ve been asked to speak at the Late Late Breakfast Show this Wednesday on an occasion in my career when I’ve just said “Screw it!” and how it’s helped. I think this is the foundation of just about every success I’ve ever had. Very little has worked for me by trying to follow “business as…
I started writing something about what happens if I don’t hit the target or what happens if I exceed the target and it just felt all wrong. The first one particularly felt like: introducing some sort of fake jeopardy to induce people to part with cash; writing a risk register (*shudder*); just a lie really…
I’m working on a digitised archive for Bromsgrove (last 48 hrs of crowdfunding) first because it’s a space and time that I have some knowledge of, I know the geography, I know some of the people who were there, I have stories of my own to tell. But as much value as I think is there…
Just scribbling this at lunchtime. For those not in the know, we’re running a massively cut-down informal version of UKGovCamp in a public space at the Royal Festival Hall basically “because snow” We’re running a live stream via Google Hangouts which then ends up on YouTube. I’m just sayin’ the following: The stream is provided…
So UK GovCamp 13 isn’t going to happen tomorrow. It’s definitely a *postponement* rather than a cancellation: as well as people finding it difficult to travel from outside London and risking getting stranded till the weather subsides, it seems our venue hosts understandably didn’t want to take that risk for their staff either. I spoke…