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Jelly wobbles
Sharon O’Dea has written an interesting piece on why Jelly has failed to really set (see what I did there!) I agree and I also uninstalled the app pretty sharpish. For pretty much the same reasons (though probably I was as annoyed by the hipster-business-weasel-words Biz Stone has been spouting as by the brands.) I…
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The Name Game
I’m still planning on running the event I blogged about back in November. Thanks to Zak it looks like we might have a venue and a number of people have been in touch offering support of one kind or another so I think it is doable. I have been iterating on the idea a bit…
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Open?
I talk a lot about being ‘open’. Or rather supporting that idea(l). The subtitle to this blog talks about the ’open web’. The problem is I increasingly wondering just what I mean by it and whether I’m failing as an ’open citizen’. At one time or another in my career I’ve been pretty closely associated…
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Generosity
I never fail to be amazed by the acts of generosity that my corner of Twitter is capable of. Whether it be with their time, knowledge, support or actual cash they often go to great lengths to reassure my faith in human nature (something the mainstream media seems intent on destroying). I wonder if this…
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Mobile misery
I got my first Nexus4 in late November 2012. I managed to destroy it by dropping it on a subway grate in Long Island City, New York. I received my replacement (which was actually an upgrade to the 16gb version) on the 16th April 2013. I destroyed that phone on Friday 10th January 2014. Dropped…