I apologise for starting with Eno but he's like a stopped clock with extra hands; quite often right. He once wrote this: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video,
I'm working on a long, slow am-I-really-doing-it? project looking into the possible merits of putting digital business systems back on paper. (Contrary? Check!) In my head I call it Paper CRM. It might be that. A side effect is that I notice/get a
The 4764 podcast grinds on. I still love it. The latest episodes are also built from video, if you'd like to look as well as listen.
I was lucky enough to have another great internet chat the other day. This time with Tom Loosemore. We discussed bins, bin day, whenisbins and, as the literary non-fictionists would say, used that as a lens to talk about digital public services and AI. Tom has written words about
I was recently very annoyed by an episode of Past, Present, Future about how short-form video is a Bad Idea. It was lazy and silly and I vowed to make a short form video rebutting it all. (I haven't done that yet, probably because of my terribly-
Some good stuff in here "We're maintaining institutional complexity by transferring its cost downwards and calling it efficiency." "The problem is that cultural risk and organisational waste were being subsidised by the same cheap money, and we learned to treat them as the same kind
I've been a fan of Matt Jukes for ages. He has a deep commitment to digital public service. He has a sly sense of humour. He puts his effort where his mouth is and his heart on his sleeve. A little while ago he wrote a blog post
As previously discussed we're trying an experiment with an online mini-Interesting on September 30th. One short talk and then some discussion. Our guest will be the historian Dr Helen Castor who talked at Interesting 2016 about Digging Up Kings. I'm hoping we'll find
After a bunch of 'exploring' Flora and I have started on Season Two of our podcast. We're calling it After Advertising because that's what we are, and it's possibly an interesting theme. We've started off with three things each we&
Stumbled past this conversation on LinkedIn today... See...
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