Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
During the Future of Webapps, quite a few people said to me how weird it was being at a conference where you had to sit and listen. They prefered the idea of BarCamp, where you could move around and directly effect a presentation with a question or idea. So in short they were comparing conferences…
Yes I've seen it too. London Wiki Wednesday London Girl Geek Dinner 10 Sponsored by Amazon! Geekdinner with Tara Hunt and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency Contested Territories: Ron Arad, Deyan Sudjic and Tom Dixon: On Design Now I can shout and rave about how crazy it is having 4 london events on the same…
I've been involved in a few podcasts recently. The first one is a round table discussion with Paul Boag, Gary Marshall and Jeremy Keith for the .net magazine podcast. I've not heard this one yet, but I was calling with skype over a wireless network at work, so I cut out a bit.The topics for…
Victor Keegan from the Guardian, pins down a great argument for the TV license rise. Here's some of the best bits. The BBC needs to be cut down to size because it uses the certainty of its licence fee to undermine entrepreneurial initiatives in the private sector. That is the accusation used by many of…
Some of you might notice this is almost a copy of the summary on the backstage blog, but I've added bits which I felt were best left for a personal blog. Thank you to everyone who turned up and made this our most successful event to date. We had started very early on Saturday afternoon…
After hearing Ryan Freitas talk about Twitter among other things, I've been trying out it out. If you don't know what Twitter is, check out Derek Powazek's description.Twitter lets me SMS to a group all at once and creates a handy 'what I'm up to right now' insert for my site. A kind of in-situ,…
So its now no real secret. I'm planning a big christmas party for BBC Backstage. The difference is that rather than going it alone and creating a whole lot of havoc with everyone elses plans. I decided that Backstage should actually talk to the rest of the community groups in London and encourage one big…
A Game of Deception, Paranoia, and Mob RuleI was looking around for more information to link to on the upcoming werewolf night. And anyway found one of the best resources for Werewolf playing. But what I found very interesting was the statictics page.
So I've been very quiet about my Backstage job on my own blog, according someone I recently spoke to (yes you who just got a new flat, you know who you are). But its not because I don't want to talk about it or because I can't. Its because I'm so damm busy! This is…
What the heck is going on? Next week is insane! There are tons of events going on in London next week. I'll outline the crazyness…Monday there is a Symbian pub meetup and a Internet Peeps Dinner with Robert Loch.Tuesday there is Beers and Innovations 5: Aggregators and upsetters, Swedish Beers and Opera backstage. London Mixer…