Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
The story of me View more presentations from Ian Forrester. I’m just back from TedXManchester where I gave one of the most fascinating talk of my life. The story of me came about in a conversation between myself and Herb Kim a while ago. Herb was wondering if IÂ might want to get involved in…
Its rare, very rare that Tim Dobson will tweet something at me which is actually worthy of blogging about. Love the guy, he saved my life… 🙂 But he doesn’t half send some crap my way… Anyway this time he send a very touching video which is about a engineer who goes speed dating. Unlike…
Pretty much every week I tend to work away from the office. When I first started getting back to work from #mybrushwithdeath, I would work from home quite a bit but now I’m back full time (since early last year) I’ve found myself working out of the Northern Quarter every week. (for those outside Manchester,…
I was listening to Twit networks Triangulation number 28 with Jeff Jarvis recently… Jeff Jarvis’s way of approaching the world is similar to the way I see things. Funny enough Leo Laporte also lives his life mainly in public too. Known as an American journalist, co-host on This Week in Google, author of What Would Google Do?, and his new…
It seems only yesterday when I was totally stressed out about the closure of BBC Backstage, trying to help Future Everything, buying my first flat on my own and goodness knows what else… I assume this time last year is about the time Adrian got the call saying I didn’t have mengentis, instead I had…
Doc Searls writes about intelligence on his blog. But he talks about sleep too…Smart people SLEEP LATE yells the headline of this opinion piece in the Winnipeg Free Press. It begins,Sleep is a fundamental component of animal biology. New evidence confirms that, in humans, its timing reflects intelligence. People with higher IQs (intelligence quotients) tend…
The consistently talented Derek Powazek wrote a great guide for Twitter called Twitter for Adults. If you don’t know Derek, you should get to know him. For me, his book Design for Communities isn’t just the best on the subject of community, its also the reason why/how I got to know my ex-wife Sarah. So…
So this is the view I’ll be seeing a lot more of in the very near future. It is the view looking northward across the Ancoats, i mean new islington area which I learned on Saturday use to be the home of the italians who moved to Manchester in the early 20th century. Of course…