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Innovation ain’t easy
The New York Times is one of the worlds great newspapers. It has also had some great successes in the digital ages (the ‘Snowfall‘ concept was hugely influential for better or worse) but the internal ‘innovation’ report that was leaked to Buzzfeed this week shows just how difficult the shift to a ‘digital…
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Lies, damned lies and statistics.
Port80 Conference — May 16th 2014 Hardly an original title given where I work Apparently Mark Twain said that. Although his real name was Samuel Clemence and he suggested he heard it from Disraeli? Who maybe heard it from Lord Balfour or maybe Baron Courtney? So what I am saying is even the bloody saying can’t be trusted…
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Trivial tech vs Civic Tech
I used to love reading blogs like Techcrunch,Mashable and the Next Web. Anything really that was covering the next big web startup. I was fascinated with tales of tech entrepreneurs starting world changing ideas in garages and dorm rooms. I don’t really know when that changed but it did. I started to find the things…
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Rules of Engagement
I’m working on a pretty big project at the moment – it is still relatively early days but I can already see it has the capacity to become pretty all consuming. This is a draft of some ideas I have for some ‘principles’ for the project – I don’t think there is anything controversial or…
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Bristol ❤ Austin
weird IS wonderful It is not uncommon to come across articles espousing this place or that as the next ‘Silicon Valley’. Over the years I seem to recall Silicon roundabouts, fens, forests, alleys and even, locally, a Silicon Gorge. Certainly in Bristol it is something that comes up every 12 months or so. The city…