Talking, teaching and documenting. Especially using mobile tools. Running workshops and consulting worldwide with a focus on social technology.
I was invited to Vienna by ‘ORF‘ Austria’s national public service channel. I was to be a guest on a TV show discussing the current challenges facing public service broadcasting. My Austrian friend Dan picked me up from Gratz and we drove into Vienna a day earlier. Dan had read my 40at40 list and figured [...]
Humans have been protecting their feet with some kind of covering for at least 26,000 years. Some studies of the bones of ancient humans suggest as long as 40,000 years. The Egyptians were the first to take this seriously, creating pads of leather or papyrus bound to the foot with two straps. Depending on region [...]
When I added ‘Customize a motorbike’ to my #40at40 list I was not thinking of any motorbike. I was of course thinking of my own. As I touched upon in a previous blog post, some people change their motorbike every year. If a bike is well looked after, the trade-in price or money from a [...]
If my Granddad were still alive this year, we’d be celebrating his hundredth birthday. We often made fun that his birth was the second major disaster of 1912. When he died he took a thousand stories with him. And just as many songs. He was a guarded man. The few stories we shared only offered [...]
It’s all well and good having a 36 megapixel camera but unless you have the processing power and bandwidth with which to edit and upload, you’re going to spend more time fiddling with your photos on a screen than actually taking them. The above image what shot in an allotment with the Nikon D800 set [...]
As people search for the ultimate in shiny mobile blogging tools, I’m sometimes asked.. “What’s your most important bit of kit?” In the past, without thinking, I’ve said my smartphone. In reality it’s my sim card and the data connection that it offers. I have countless ways of documenting what’s around me. Various smart phones [...]
I don’t grow a beard. Thankfully it grows itself. This allows me to achieve something visible to all with very little effort on my part. I like it. It’s a mask, its warm in winter, handy with an open face helmet on a motorbike and often it gives people the wrong impression of me. And [...]
I was invited to Bletchley Park for the unveiling of new exhibits entitled ‘The Life and Works of Alan Turing’. Whilst there I grabbed the following two videos on my flip cam. An introduction from Sir John Scarlett, Chairman of the Bletchley Park Trust and following talks from Captain Jerry Roberts, Bletchley Park wartime Codebreaker, Sir John [...]
My much loved Triumph Scrambler 900 is with Spirit Of The 70′s for customisation. Some people change their bike every year. I’ve had a few bikes but I feel this one is for keeps and I’d like to make it something even more special. Even more mine. I fell in love with my Triumph seconds after pulling out of [...]
The years are mounting up this side of my Granddads death and as well as the conversational glimpses into my family history, I find myself missing the food we would eat. He loved his food. In his final years, housebound and slowly going blind, conversation, food and the radio were his only real pleasures. My [...]
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