Talking, teaching and documenting. Especially using mobile tools. Running workshops and consulting worldwide with a focus on social technology.
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’m trying out ‘Covert Browser’ on the iPad. It’s not a cheap app at £1.99 but I can’t find anything else Tor enabled in the official app store. If the integration of the open source version of Tor is working correctly then this app should offer not only unmonitored Internet browsing but also access to [...]
If like me you rely on a 3G MiFi to get a decent internet connection both at home and while mobile, I highly recommend you get one of these little suckers. If I hang my MiFi in a window, at home or on a train, it can make the difference between a an Edge/3G signal [...]
Recently I got to see Richard Stallman talk in London. He was the guest of the Open Rights Group and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I have his talk and the Q&A that followed embedded and linked below. First though are my initial impressions recorded at the end of the night. (Skip to the three embeds [...]
During the 90′s I spent a lot of time ‘roughing it’ and wandering Europe. I’d walk between France, Switzerland and Germany sleeping under the stars and making money where I could. If you’ve ever read Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse you’ll get the idea. I starting writing a book called the ‘Blaggers Guid To The [...]
For me a community is not tied to a geographical area. It’s more an area of common life. I live across a number of communities. Family, friends, work, and a number of geeky tech loving groups who exist both on the web and in physical space. Some hold a fellowship of solidarity and trust. Others [...]
I first saw this strange device back in March 2010 when I got my Brompton S3L-X. I was searching for accessories and on a Spanish website I spotted this strange looking add-on cross-bar. I contacted them but they were halting production and it was impossible to get this nifty looking child seat anywhere. Until now [...]
There is software somewhere tracking all the IMEI’s on the phones that were momentarily clustered in the intimate auditorium of the Sage, Gateshead. A three day hotspot of creatives, thinkers, do’ers and disrupters. The transmitted signatures have now spidered their way back across the country, across the water, across the world. And the digital echo [...]
Tv is something that happens in our house. We have two sets but only one is plugged in. The other still lies packed in a box. Originally destined for the bedroom it was decided six months ago after a house move that we could do without. The bedroom was for other things. Mainly sleep. The [...]
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