the ties that bind
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Collaboration - periodically
One of my work colleagues pointed me to a really interesting way of describing the elements of collaboration. I havent posted anything for ages as I endeavour to get to grips with my new role, but there will be more coming soon
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How dare you communicate!
I have been very remiss in not updating my blog for the last few weeks - pressure of work and all that. However, I saw an article in a craft magazine yesterday (my wife runs an internet craft store) that got me chuckling. It was the usual tirade against Facebook, saying that large companies like Cre …
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Fight for Kisses
There is even a video game that goes along with this. I think it could be a taste of advertising2.0
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Russians and Newark
Im currently at Newark airport, waiting to get on my delayed flight home. As I had such a long wait,a nd there is absolutely no decent shopping at Newark, I popped into Chillis for a bite to eat. I got sat at a table with another guy and we got chatting as you do. David (I think his name was) was an …
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New start, new questions
Ive been in my new job less than a month (hence the dearth of blog posts) and am discovering all over again what its like to be the new kid on the block. Weve been given lots of helpful stuff to read, there are new starter checklists that go through week by week what you ought to be doing/ asking. F …
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They know not what they do…
Two programmes last week made an impact on me particularly. The first was the genealogical one called Who do you think you are?, featuring the trek through the ancestry of Natasha Kaplinsky. She found that on her Jewish fathers side, his family had been dispersed across the world, with many ending …
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Avenue Q & Fiddler on the Roof: Everyone’s a Little Bit Jewish
Well, weve had audio mashups and video mashups.now a theatrical one. The american casts of Avenue Q (which I saw last week at the Noel Coward theatre - excellent!) and Fiddler on the Roof in an extravaganza that mixes the best of both in a musical and comedic style. Well worth watching all the way t …
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The 2007 webtrend map version 2.0
Thanks to the CEO of Marklogics blog for this great interactive web map link.
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iPod rescue
When I left my last job, I gave my PC back - as you would expect. This had previously had all my iPod music on it. This week, I got my new PC, and tried to sync my iPod with it. It was then I discovered that syncing only works one way, from PC to iPod - part of Apples anti-piracy campaign. This mean …
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Complex problem solving - visualised
I was passed this link by Gearoid Garvey, I think it really captures very well and concisely the key processes and players in a complex problem solving exercise.
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Strange Days
?? Saw the film Strange Days last night on TV. It wasnt too bad as a sci-fi flick, although about??45 minutes??too long. However, one line in it really caught my interest. It was something like: Paranoia is just reality with finer tuning ??Some people I know are just more finely tuned than others th …
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Who can you trust?
It often astounds me how trusting people are of the material they find on the web. After all, you wouldnt pick up a flyer from a seat on the tube, read it and assume that every word was reliable, honest and accurate.or would you? Maybe I am just more sceptical than most, perhaps my past training as …
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Evolution of Dance
Sin??ad Henderson directed me to this clip - its extremely well done.
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KM - A guide to good practice
I found a BSI publication with this title while rummaging through an infrequently visited part of my bookshelves tonight. I remember being part of the wider consultative group who advised on its publication (and editing). Many of the models in it are taken straight from the PWC versions as they led …
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Genius can be learned
There was a fascinating programme on television this evening about the first woman chess grandmaster - Susan Polgar. Her father had trained her from a young age to learn chess games, openings, typical positions. She had learned approximately 200,000 of these chess artefacts. The programme showed th …
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Teenagers - another species?
The Sunday Times has a section each week that looks at relative values. A brother talks about his sister and vice versa, or its a parent and child, that sort of thing. Normally, one of the relatives is famous. Yesterday, it was the turn of David Hempleman-Adams and his daughter who is 17. He (for th …
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Madonna - Hung Up (Live Earth London)
Im still not entirely clear how having a pop concert like this can save the planet. Raising money for Africa I could understand, celeb egos campaigning to reduce carbon footprints is a little surreal. Anyway, I love the original (ABBA) of this song, and like the Madonna version. She actually got the …
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Useful Links 11/07/07
Online Photography tools and resources (over 90 of them) RSS tools and hacks (over 120) the daily tube categorises all the new video and vodcast releases - very useful
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Metaverse roadmap
Ive never really got in to mass multi-player games or virtal reality worlds like second life, I guess Ive never really had the time or the D&D mentality. However, a post on my blog RSS reader has got me a little more interested. It refers to a recent summit and then output of a paper looking at …
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Is Chomsky wrong about linguistic evolution
?? This fascinating article in the New Yorker about an Amazonian tribe would seem to suggest so. A long article, but well worth the read.
the ties that bind
