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Continue reading →: Why I am moving back to Brum…
It looks like I’ve reached that moment in a blogger’s life when you log into your poor neglected blog(s), make apologies to folks for the lack of posting, explain why and then make a new promise to report back a bit more often in future. Except… as Neil Gaiman once said…
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Continue reading →: ‘Yalla Yalla get a wriggle on!’ – Jordan press trip
Translation: get a move on. This was the running theme of a last week’s busy busy press trip to review Jordan’s natural wonders – well, that and lots of Spirit & Destiny magazine plugs (tick) – which involved: 1. No less that three nature reserves. 2. Two seas in one…
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Continue reading →: While you were sleeping: the 4am Project
A bench in Southend at 4am At 4am on the 4th of the 4th – on Saturday just gone – my phone alarm rang, I hauled myself out of a rather snug hotel bed on Essex’s east coast and walked out into the night with a rather expensive Canon 30D…
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Continue reading →: Free mentoring offered on Ada Lovelace Day
Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never…
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Continue reading →: Hashtag Kebab aka ‘the art of conference jacking’
Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival. Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over room 12 and brought a bit of classic UK punk…
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Continue reading →: SXSWi: Sunday the 15th
11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing in which currency is not money but reputation, connections, influence,…
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Continue reading →: My SXSWi 2009 schedule
Here’s the beginning of my plan for South by South-West Interactive in Austin next week. (Yes, that’s Austin, Texas!) If you’re there and you want to meet, borrow my extension cord or tell me about something good going on, I’ll be on Twitter – @katchooo (though please note my Sony…
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