Reading Assessing moderator impact on communities. If you run a community, you’ll already know this, but communities work better when there is a moderator to manage and cultivate. The year I didn’t retweet men by Anil Dash. An unannounced (and unnoticed) experiment by Dash to only retweet men in 2013. it made his experience better. […]
2014 – week 6
A bit more activity this week Reading The Truth about the luxury of Qatar Airways.Horrible story of Swedish staff of the airline, which seems to treat them like indentured servants with terrible rules and behaviour. Life is a Game. This is your Strategy Guide.By Oliver Emberton. Not a new metaphor, but an interesting take on […]
2014 – week 5
Another quiet week (well, if you call some travel quiet). We’ll have to stop that soon! Reading Life as a Non-Violent Psychopath. A neuroscientist working on brain scans takes a look at his own and how similar it is to psyshopath brains. A great read, and interesting journey of self-discovery. The Day we Lost Atlanta […]
Visiting Naples Part 2
The dry (if overcast) weather that I had for the day round Pompeii did not hold for the rest of my stay and there was plenty of rain around. For the rest of my trip I’d planned walking round Naples, Churches and Museums. My Lonely Planet guidebook had a good walking day set out and […]
Visiting Naples
Last week, off I went to Naples for a long weekend visit. With so many cities in Europe to visit, Naples may not be the first on the everyone’s list, but it has plenty of attractions, the main one for me being Pompeii. The others were food (practising my carb-loading for running) and the art. […]
2014 – week 4
Reading Got few a fair bit this week! I really ought to record the books I’m reading too, I only do that occasionally. Gretchen Molannen’s legacy: suffering, suicide and a journalist’s responsibility. A journalist examines if her story contributed to a suicide. about the process of creating a story, about how much responsibility a journalist […]
2014 – Week 3
Reading TV Viewers aren’t thrilled with 2nd screen synchronised content on Variety.com. Well,you don’t say! Only 13% said it made the programme more enjoyable. Let me take a guess. The 2nd screen is usually mobile/tablet, a device that is by it#s nature far more personal than the TV. They’re second screening to connect with their […]
2014 – Week 2
Reading Things learnt from 5 years on The Story by Matt Locke. A great set of things that he has learnt running his The Story Conference, from the need of side-projects, that you have to do things many times to get things right and that things are valued more when paid for with own money […]
2014 – Week 1
It’s a New Year! 2014 is here and has done its best to make its mark with the weather. Reading How to run the perfect marathon by Beer Belly Running. I’m going to be reading a lot more like this as I have no idea what to expect (pain, I know there’ll be pain, but […]
Reviewing 2013
That’s it. The year is done, 2013 is over, 364 and a half days have been experienced. So that means it’s time to look back on my ambitions for 2013 and see if I achieved them! The framework was Change, Connect and Challenge, a way of structuring my thoughts for the year. Practically, I split […]
2013 – Week 52
Christmas Week, that weird one (which carries on into next week) where life does not follow normal pattern! Reading Marketers fear the female geek. The cycle of why certain things are aimed at men only and some ideas of how to break the cycle. Putting right the wrong done to Alan Turing by David Allen […]
2013 – Week 51
The year is nearly done. Thoughts turn to plans for 2014, personal, professional, what ambitions will I set myself for the year? Reading Looking outside the Tech Bubble by Rob Underwood. Don’t agree with everything in here about giving back, but at its heart, it’s a call to action to take a look around you […]
2013 – Week 50
An interesting week, with potential for huge changes. But more on that as they crystalise! Reading Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregellis. An interesting Alt-history story, the first in a trilogy. What happens if the Germans had harnessed mental powers in WW2 and what would be the UK response. The Brilliant Hack that brought Foursquare back […]
2013 – Week 49
Reading Odon Childbirth device: Car mechanic uncorks a revolution. A feature about Jorge Odon, a car mechanic from Argentine, who has invented a new device to help with childbirth. What we can learn from fake tears on social media (The Kernal). Why people push their grief onto social media when a celebrity dies. (something you […]
Boots Blogger Event – Sensationail
Last week I attended a blogger event, pulled together under the auspices of Boots I believe. It was aimed at beauty bloggers, so not 100% sure why I was on the list, but it was a very good event, looking at 2 different devices that use light to help you in the quest for looking […]
2013 – Week 48
Reading 18 Ways to take Mobile seriously from Inma. It’s been the year of the mobile for years and years, but it’s permanently tipped that way now and this provides a list of the basics to make sure you’re meeting needs. I’m not Angry. After my meeting with Ben, this is where my searches took […]
I met Ben today
Sitting on the bus, a man is helped on. He says he can’t see, although he does not seem to have too much trouble moving around or slapping his Oyster card down. He says he’s disabled, cheerfully, as that’s the armour against the world. He sits down next to me and just starts to talk. […]
The Churches of Sir Christopher Wren
Yesterday, I used up one of my remaining holiday days to play tourist in London. Usually, holidays are used for holidays, somewhere else, but occasionally it’s nice to use one to explore my home town. The plan was made to tour the churches of Sir Christopher Wren. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, […]
2013 – Week 47
Winter is definitely here! it’s getting a bit cold out there. Not sure of it’s the cold but it was a very quiet week. Reading Not that musch this week. The NSA Files: Decoded from The Guardian. An assessment of the impact of the revelations about the NSA spying on everyone. Saints of the Shadow […]
My Media Consumption
I opened up iTunes this week, sometimes that does not happen too often. There was my full list of all the songs I had bought this year. A grand total of THREE. That’s it, just the 3 songs. When I mentioned this to colleagues, it seems that I’m not alone in my minimal of songs, […]