Web and Flow

Getting ready for Reboot Britain http://www.rebootbritain.com/

2009-06-29T08:36:32Z

It's only a week away and, at rather short notice, I was asked to take part in the 'The Future of Policy Making' session. http://rebootbritain.sched.org/ I've thought of some hooks for this - and I may as well share them in case anyone has ideas...

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Human Connectedness and '"Society'"

2009-06-01T08:39:20Z

I was walking up the hill towards home the other day. There was a man walking towards me - slightly older than me I guess. To my unconscious social auto-pilot I now reckon he was a 'probable' - that is, somebody it was worth turning my open face ...

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Keeping things simple - again!

2009-04-25T11:19:25Z

When I'm digging in my garden, and the activity clears out all the trivia, I often find myself thinking about work. It's OK... I really like my work, or at least the part that I think about when I'm digging, which is perhaps the ideal work that I ...

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All over by Christmas

2008-09-23T07:59:48Z

We are extending our house. We are having an extension built. Our house is being extended... Hmmm - I'm not sure what the proper verbs are here. It's our plan, we pay the money, we did some of the thinking, we make the tea - but an architect did ...

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Ross Kemp has a twin!

2008-04-05T14:16:44Z

I was reading an item on Jeff Jarvis's Buzz Machine blog the other day where he was drawing attention to a couple of YouTube videos attacking the Obama campaign. They both use the same template. The first video is about voters in Michigan and Flo...

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Suicide Epidemics

2008-01-24T09:38:29Z

The first days of the New Year almost got me blogging again - on themes of blogging, not blogging, the psychology of the perception of time spent not blogging and so-on. But for all the reasons I haven't blogged for six months these impulses neve...

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Word of (wash your) Mouth (out)

2007-06-05T09:33:51Z

I sometimes wonder how much we over-estimate the quality of what's thought and written on the web. [Yes - take it as read that I'm commiting all sorts of precisely the same assumption, and betraying various prejudices, when I use the term "we". W...

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Still losing weight

2007-05-30T08:51:02Z

To resume the pattern on this blog - thoughts about the social web mixed with my weight loss and fitness efforts, and the odd commentary on media and society, all with or without judicious use of VOX's three levels of privacy - here's an update o...

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David Wilcox on 'What makes engagement and collaboration work?'

2007-05-24T22:44:52Z

In step with tomorrow's 'Social Impact of the Web' event at the RSA, David Wilcox has written an article for the RSA website exploring this question. He makes four statements about the necessary positives - but it's the follow up questions in eac...

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Stuck!

2007-04-17T09:46:20Z

For two weeks running I've been stuck on 17lbs lost. Rationally I understand the factors - I've recovered from those two bugs and, being able to train as well, I've put back some muscle. I also had a few family events and outings, where it's hard...

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