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Just a quick note: I’m starting an Oxford writers group. My idea is that participants will be able to upload their work to a closed online space, so that it can be read and commented on in a more natural reading environment. Of course, if people want, they can
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I’ve written a guest post over at the Media140 blog about Lily Allen’s file sharing stance, and the wider place of traditional record labels in the Internet economy. If the Internet has brought us anything, it is individuality. We have the ability to publish, share and consume the
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I’ve been thinking a lot about storytelling on the Internet. I'm not completely impressed with how it's been done so far. Not that the examples I've seen haven't been beautiful, but their presence on the web has been irrelevant: they'
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Oxford Twestival is a night of musical entertainment, comedy and more in aid of Oxfam’s water sanitation project in Mali. We’ve got some great musicians lined up, there will be prizes on the night and the venue is pretty cool - anyone remember the old Point, above the
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I designed the following poster for BarCamp Transparency, this Sunday, July 26, at the University Club on Mansfield Road, Oxford. (It starts at 10am and tickets are free; visit the website to get yours.) Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, saw it and had this to say:
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TechMeetup is a set of monthly technology gatherings in Edinburgh and Glasgow. It feels somehow illicit: the Edinburgh meetup takes place at the top of the Appleton Tower, a famous eyesore in the middle of the Edinburgh University campus. Piles of pizza and free beer are placed on tables, and
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This how-to isn’t in the usual remit of this blog, but it solves a problem I’ve had for a while – I can’t use the iPhone’s built-in calendar functionality with Google Calendar - so I thought I’d share. The iPhone 3.0 software update supports CalDAV,
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North Oxford is the wealthiest part of a wealthy city, where BMWs sit in gravel driveways and wine bars nestle amongst delicatessens and stylish cafes; a part of the city I always yearned to belong to as a kid, but never quite did. It was where I went to school,
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Update: Interested in what I'm doing now? Check out my about page. I have a major announcement to make: I co-founded Elgg with Dave Tosh five years ago, and it's been a heck of a ride. I've been immensely proud of what we'
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I took some time out this afternoon to hang out in Oxford University Parks with Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I'd been given for Christmas but hadn't a chance to read yet. It's a children's book, and
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Vero nails what I've thought for a long time: Since I moved from Canada, I have seen too many Brits or Europeans be very sheepish about self-promotion. American sales people are reputed to be bubbly, brash and bigger than life, speaking louder than anyone else in the room
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This lecture by Obama transition team member Greg Simon is worth a watch (click the Flash icon in the top right). While ostensibly about advocacy strategies for lobbyists, the fundamentals of what he talks about are applicable to marketing of ideas much more generally - commercial marketing, creative writing, and