Category: thoughts

  • Socialnomics video: “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”

    Apparently that famous quote was originally by Benjamin Disraeli and was just made famous by Mark Twain, so that covers my bit of learning for the day 🙂 This video (found thanks to Mia on Twitter) throws an awful lot of unverified stats at you in a very short time but for the most part…

  • Ups and Downs

    So week 2 is done and dusted and I’ll soon be heading back up to the Midlands for week 3.  This week has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride if I am honest on the one hand I found the lodging situation much better and even managed to avoid eating in the Star and…

  • Ch-ch-changes

    As I write this blog post it is almost exactly 24 hours til I will have completely finished my time at Jiva and will be starting out on my PG rated leaving do (no drinking for yours truly!). This signals the start of alot of changes in my life and to some extent that is…

  • Rebooting Britain (well London anyway)

    So I spent Monday at the very swanky Savoy Place for the Reboot Britain conference put on by Nesta and the team that ran the 2gether conference last year. There was a mix of traditional talks in the lecture theatre and more eclectic sessions throughout the building which was ambitious but seemed to work quite…

  • The What is a Browser Reality Check

    This video has been doing the rounds for a few weeks or more now and the reaction to it has been pretty amusing from many folks on Twitter and beyond. Mike has written a short but useful post reacting to it and I agree with the point he is making. The fact is the great…