I find myself in Birmingham for a couple of days (16th & 17th April), with the wherewithal to create a popup cinema to show some films from the British Council Collection. I'm based in B30, but can come anywhere in Brum that's easily accessible by public transport. Give me a shout on 07919182825 if you'd…
I scribbled this diagram in a notebook while on the train sometime ago and have been waiting to find the time to install a drawing package to make it prettier (I found dia – it just works!). It's a gross simplification, but sometimes you have to take things up a level to see what's really…
Some (actually many) years ago I was working as an Information Manager at the Audit Commission. I became increasingly frustrated by the difficulty of joining up data across, the organisation. There were loads of opportunities to add more value to what we were doing by taking data collected in different contexts and telling stories based…
For the young 'uns among you, when Twitter started up it had an IM mode – you could add twitter to your buddy list and all the tweets from people you followed ticked away in a chat window and when you wanted to tweet, you just said something but of course you had to remember…
I'm having repeated problems uploading to Flickr from my phone – above is a recent "result". I'm just noting it here in case anyone else has seen a similar effect. I think that it's a combination of uploading from my HTC Desire S to Flickr via the Tedious-Admin-G network at C4CC but I need to…
I've been following Dave Winer's work on his outliner, the OPML Editor for sometime now, just reading what he says on his blog about it, getting interested, but never really getting involved because it only runs on Windows or Mac and I have neither at the moment. For me outlining is a great way of…
OK, so my head is full of cold but I thought I could wander out into Twitter and ask something that was puzzling me, but it seems I might have asked it at the wrong time or the wrong place. I got back answers that made me think people didn't understand the question. So there's…
I went along to #brewcamp last night in Walsall. It was lovely, I got to hear about the amazing open spaces and wildlife in and around Walsall from Morgan Bowers and Mark Blackstock's story of growing a local aggregator which confirming that people come back to places that send them away. As this was a local government…
I'm unfixing my abode and going up to Birmingham and its environs for a few days, I have some potential for retreat in Oxfordshire later in the month and I'm cat-sitting in Wood Green in a couple of weeks (oh the glamour!) but otherwise freewheeling. I'm always up for chats, tea, coffee, idling etc. I…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8YbLvGrb0?wmode=transparent] This. Over and over and over. Knowing that I would be a grown-up in the 21st Century was very exciting. The jury's still out on how exciting it actually is. However I think if it's more exciting it's going to be for different reasons than I'd thought. I doubt that we're going to…