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Being Briztolian
Photo by @gothick Recently a blogpost did the rounds locally and achieved the rare thing of finding favour both with my Facebook and Twitter circles (over on Google+ people were still watching the tumbleweeds blow by.) The piece was called Bristol, give me a signal and was a poetic journey through one (young? student? hipster?) perspective…
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Three of a kind [040813]
The return of Kathy Sierra In 2007 Kathy Sierra essentially stopped speaking in public, writing her blog and generally contributing online. This was due to a campaign of appalling abuse that including death threats and her home address being made public amongst other things. In late July Sierra returned to blogging just as the Twitter…
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52: Week Fourteen
Another season ticket purchased so thats another month committed to 🙂 This week was exhausting – I interviewed a total of eight people over 3 days with no interview lasting less than an hour and the paperwork and deliberating pretty much matching the interview timings! I don’t know how I would have coped without the…
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Loyal to the network?
Emer Coleman, late of GDS, has written a particularly insightful post over at Computer Weekly talking about ‘How to lead when change is the new normal‘. While I disagree with a lot of her ‘web kids‘ premise for the same reasons I dismiss the ‘digital native‘ concept .. [as someone born some time post 1980…
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Three of a kind [280713]
Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is Feels like I’m linking to something like this every week 😦 Another story about the threat to the freedom of the internet and how it is fragmenting in to a series of smaller, censored networks where privacy is non-existent. Scary days. On a related…