http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Some of these thoughts must be mine - but which ones? en Vox Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:36:32 +0100 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/getting-ready-for-reboot-britain-httpwwwrebootbritaincom.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/getting-ready-for-reboot-britain-httpwwwrebootbritaincom.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/getting-ready-for-reboot-britain-httpwwwrebootbritaincom.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:36:32 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/getting-ready-for-reboot-britain-httpwwwrebootbritaincom.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f01101669b133860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> social media functionality market research deliberation http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/human-connectedness-and-society.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/human-connectedness-and-society.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/human-connectedness-and-society.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:39:20 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/human-connectedness-and-society.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f0110160f4090860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> community social psychology society connection http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/keeoing-things-simple---again.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/keeoing-things-simple---again.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/keeoing-things-simple---again.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:19:25 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/keeoing-things-simple---again.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f0110181c5347860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> social media web2.0 market research communication styles http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/all-over-by-christmas.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/all-over-by-christmas.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/all-over-by-christmas.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:59:48 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/all-over-by-christmas.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00fae8e10de0000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/ross-kemp-has-a-twin.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/ross-kemp-has-a-twin.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/ross-kemp-has-a-twin.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:16:44 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/video/6a00cdf7f43603094f00f48ceb90520003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00cdf7f43603094f00f48ceb90520003-50si" alt="We Are One People (part 2)" /></a> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf7f43603094f00e398ed22e80005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cdf7f43603094f00e398ed22e80005-50si" alt="Ross_Kemp_detail" /></a> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf7f43603094f00f48ceb91350003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf7f43603094f00f48ceb91350003-50si" alt="Fred" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/ross-kemp-has-a-twin.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00f48ceb8ff90003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics ross kemp http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/suicide-epidemics.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/suicide-epidemics.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/suicide-epidemics.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:38:29 +0000 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/suicide-epidemics.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00e398d597370004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> news social networks journalism tipping point epidemics http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/word-of-wash-your-mouth-out.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/word-of-wash-your-mouth-out.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/word-of-wash-your-mouth-out.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:33:51 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/word-of-wash-your-mouth-out.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00d4143c65b56a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> comments youtube mining swearing cursing elitism minority http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/still-losing-weight.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/still-losing-weight.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/still-losing-weight.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 May 2007 09:51:02 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/still-losing-weight.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00d4143a69756a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/david-wilcox-on-what-makes-engagement-and-collaboration-work.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/david-wilcox-on-what-makes-engagement-and-collaboration-work.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/david-wilcox-on-what-makes-engagement-and-collaboration-work.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 May 2007 23:44:52 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/david-wilcox-on-what-makes-engagement-and-collaboration-work.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00d09e6ed3f7be2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> powerpoint sublime rsa romantics david wilcox http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/stuck.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Uncle Buck) http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/stuck.html?_c=feed-rss http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/stuck.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:46:20 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://unclebuck.vox.com/library/post/stuck.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7f43603094f00cd972290554cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> weight fitness gym weight loss