Apologies for the radio silence
June 13, 2006
I’ve had a bit of a hardware disaster which will take me a few days to rectify so apologies for the lack of posting. Normal business will resume as soon as I can get access to a new machine!
June 13, 2006
I’ve had a bit of a hardware disaster which will take me a few days to rectify so apologies for the lack of posting. Normal business will resume as soon as I can get access to a new machine!
June 12, 2006
I know nothing about football and the world cup will float by me. I won’t be impacted by who is playing whom and I’m comfortable in my (very) small bubble of 1 or 2 who simply don’t “get” football. When ever I say I’m not interested in the world cup…
June 5, 2006
I had a lunchtime chat yesterday with Johnnie and Earl via Skype. I think after about 20 minutes we had sorted out global confusion, low cost air travel and the future of social networks online. Seriously though, it was a pleasure to chat off line to Johnnie who has been…
June 1, 2006
I generally work on my own with groups and while it’s always great to get feedback at the end of a session or in subsequent days it can be difficult to get critical feedback that can help next time out. This week, for the first time, I invited a colleague…
May 23, 2006
In fiction, the most powerful weapon the writer has is suggestion. I think that nearly all good writing is suggestion, and all bad writing is statement. Statement kills off the reader’s imagination. With suggestion, the reader takes up from where the writer leaves off (John McGahern 1934 – 2006) I’m…
May 17, 2006
Some of the bloggers I read include a “links for the day” posting where they link to four or five sites sometimes with little or no information about why those links have been chosen. I guess if you like a blogger’s fare then you’re likely to understand why they’ve chosen…
May 15, 2006
On Thursday I’ll be giving a presentation at the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Information Seminar on professionalism and best practice. I’ve done several training sessions for visual artists on this topic and Thursday will be a new opportunity to meet and talk with crafts people about a similar area. I…
May 11, 2006
David Maister has an interesting post about whether or not blogging is “dead” but more critically he’s talking about blogging as a relational activity also (one of my key reasons for blogging!). He asks a great question at the end of the post Let me ask all of you out…
May 9, 2006
Johnnie Moore has an interesting post on the Fetish of Change where he references a fascinating article by Christopher Grey Grey’s article is a critique of the current orthodoxy that the world is changing at an ever faster rate, that organizations must adapt to this change in order to survive,…
May 7, 2006
I’ve embarked on a PhD programme this year which is throwing up all kinds of challenges and delights (so far, in equal measure). I’m in that beginning phase where as each day goes by I realise what I don’t know. There are times when it’s incredibly dispiriting because I know…