November 2009
5 posts
Perils, Wonders and Learning to "be" in a...
This was the title of my talk at the first London Ignite last night. I really love formats like Ignite and Pecha Kucha as they allow you to really explore a theme deeply and yet concisely and hopefully leave the audience wanting more rather than wondering when you’ll stop talking.
Thanks must go to Amy and Ben for organising and allowing me to talk, and also to Craig Smith from...
On the horizon of a real-time networked society
Here is the talk I gave to round off Social Media 09. I’ve actually I’ve pushed this live as I’m speaking, partly because it’s the real time thing to do, partly because due to the layout of the room half the people in the room can’t see the screen and partly because I’m flying without access to my notes which will lead for an interesting 10 minutes and I’d...
It's a mashup (event)...
I’m really pleased to be speaking at Mashup Event’s Social Media 09. It’s a great line up and I’m in the exciting but nervous position of talking last. So partly to keep the surprise and partly to stop people from “acquiring” ideas, I’m going to keep the details of what I’m talking about under wraps. The broad brush strokes of what I’m talking...
Teaching data literacy
There were two trivial little things I saw on my flight out to Sweden to speak at Internetdagarna. The first made me smile in a “oh how nice you thought about that and made it just for me” bit of whimsy. It was that my boarding pass said API OK.
It was nice of them to check and to put a little status message on their I thought and then returned to the real world smiling.
Then I got...
When access to the internet becomes a human right,...
I had the privilege of meeting the Swedish Infrastructure minister, Åsa Torstensson, at a breakfast for people who were speaking at Internetdagarna yesterday. I heard her outline what Sweden was doing with broadband access and in my very broken understanding of Swedish one thing really stood out.
90% of households should have 100 Mbps by 2020
Which strikes me as a good and lofty goal. They...