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A little comment I wrote on the NESTA blogs about the constant stream of mixed and confusing messages we are bombarded with these days: Two stories which resonated with me this morning… 1) A colleague forwarded this nugget from popb*tch: An avatar in Second Life has a larger carbon footprint than the average Brazilian 2) [...]

We just launched our new structured wiki Intranet at NESTA, and I can’t wait to see how this new approach works for the staff in a small/med public sector organisation such as ours. Here’s a post I wrote on the NESTA blogs about it: I think the structured wiki approach is a great way of [...]

My personal favourite moments from NMK’s Goodness 2.0 event, written for the NESTA blogs. Goodness 2.0 was all about how charities, non-profits and NGOs can make use of 2.0 tools and techniques. My main take-away from the event was about the power of the social web to share with the world some truly amazing stories, [...]

A post for NESTA which comments on the recent political adoption of things like YouTube as a campaigning tool. Today French politics joined the USA in adopting ‘social web’ media as a platform for running political campaigns & debates – only the French are using Second Life instead of YouTube. And here on these shores, [...]

A post I wrote following up on the Wobble 2.0 event, hosted over at the NESTA blogs. It’s about the fact that I don’t think Web 2.0 is necessarily about solving the big problems of the world, but instead solving the little problems that make you think “There must be a better/easier way of doing [...]

Here we go… I’ve started this blog as a space to house all my thoughts about the online world. I have worked within the medium since 1994, when I made my very first website to house my artwork and photography. It was hot pink and pretty horrid… Since then, I have been working with websites [...]