Category: thoughts
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Considering being Cooperative
I have long had the inkling of an idea that a co-op would be an interesting model to use in setting up a social web business of some kind. According to the International Cooperative Alliance a co-op is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and…
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2009 – The Year I Was Sent to Coventry
This time last year I wrote a bit of a review of the year that had just passed and was happy enough with what I wrote to promise myself I’d do it again so here I am. 2009 however was not a year I particularly want to dwell on. Certainly from a professional point of…
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Eventgineering: getting wifi right at events
Anyone who has read this blog for a while will know I am fascinated by the way events have been changing in the last few years. The rise of the unconference, live streaming and the backchannel are all elements I have written about before and I firmly believe we are only at the start of…
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The Tyranny of the Hit
I had the misfortune this week to get stuck at Birmingham New Street station for an additional hour and in desperation for something to pass the time I picked up a copy of the Economist (it was on offer and the new Wired wasn’t in!). Since I stopped working in a library (which was more…
