4764 on screen
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.
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Opinion Show
BinTech and the agentic swarm
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
The London Review of TikToks
The London Review of TikToks - special complexity edition
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-
Cutting the wrong things
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
Opinion Show
The defense of open
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
Interesting Assemble
Interesting Assemble with Dr Helen Castor
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 Advertising
After Advertising
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&
Oh, the futility
Stumbled past this conversation on LinkedIn today... See...
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The London Review of TikToks - 23 August
@painesplough_ blank is about blank who wants blank, but blank is stopping them… A writing prompt, imparted to Roy Williams from the late great Stephen Jeffreys. 📽️ @DMLK Video Meet the Writers is a video series from Paines Plough about the power of storytelling and theatre. Take a seat with some
Ads, Honda, Nike, interestingness
I had a long and fascinating chat with David and Jeffre the other day. They wanted to talk about Cog for their interestingness project and knowing a conversation with them is always fascinating I asked if I could record it. We rambled on and on. But it reminded me of
Chatting with good people about interesting things
I've just recorded an hour's chat with the esteemed Dan Hill about the development of the BT Tower. It's on YouTube as part of my ongoing fascination with the tower, and it's development. And I've realised, it really is my