There's an increasing trend I've noticed recently among people looking at stories – to take a brief look at stories to find the ones that "typify" the organisation. And, because of the perception of storywork being highly resource-intensive, it's generally a very small number of stories that are used. Somewhat Read more…
Via Tim Kitchin, who put me onto Kiva in the first place: A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before – the fountains in Trafalgar Square frozen over… Although not as funny as the sight that those waiting for the bus got this morning as, in reaching to pull my mobile out of my pocket, I lost my balance. Icy Letchworth pavements Read more…
Following my post earlier in the week, an update from Henry Greetings from the train back from Lourdes, after an incredible day at the etape. The conditions were described by the local paper as ‘apocalyptique” and ”Dantesque” with driving rain and – at the top of the mountains – near Read more…
After enduring some spectacularly bad hardware problems and appalling customer service with my current desktop PC, I’m finally looking at moving over to Mac. It’s exciting and tempting, and I’m (at last!) realising that those are also warning signs. As with most things, we tend to confirmation bias – seeing Read more…
From Henry Stewart, the remarkable boss at remarkable Happy Computers: This Sunday I am taking the biggest physical challenge of my life. I am cycling the etape, the public stage of the Tour de France: 105 miles the same mountains – Tourmalet at 7,000 ft, Hautacom at 5,000 ft – Read more…
I’ve just been passed the details for Christvertising. I’m still not sure whether it’s real or satire. The more I look at it, the more I lean to the latter, but… As robust business models go, advertising and branding is full of smoke and mirrors, but you’ve got to admire Read more…
A mildly surreal evening yesterday, watching Neil Gaiman and Susannah Clark in conversation at the Bloomsbury Theatre, interrupted for 40 minutes when the fire alarms were set off by “something in the nanotech lab”. Reassuringly, if a little disappointingly, it wasn’t self-assembly flames or molecular mites effecting an escape. And Read more…