October 8, 2009
I love this idea that Andrew Taylor discovered at a recent conference We heard from Chris Mackie, a Mellon Foundation specialist on community-source software development (primarily outside the arts). And his point was this: Collaboration is a muscle. In his extensive experience with communities of practice building software together, he…
October 21, 2008
During season 4 of Sex and the City Carrie’s mac has a near death experience so she heads to Tekserve on West 23rd street to have her machine resuscitated. I became a MacBook Air owner during my last trip to NYC in May and 2 months later the ‘3’ key…
September 16, 2008
Nothing promotes excess like talking about excess – Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about excess (extravagant violations of law, decency and morality) in The Essay on BBC Radio 3 every night this week. In the first episode (15 minutes) he asks is our appetite by nature excessive – and makes a…
September 2, 2008
I love this piece by David Armano including his great ‘I’m the centre of my universe’ graphic Top 10 Signs You Might Be A “Weblebrity” Andy Warhol’s prophecy was fulfilled with the advent of MTV’s programming and widespread reality television. We’re now seeing a new kind of micro-fame which lasts…
October 16, 2007
I’d almost given up trying to read the Irish Times online because of the amount of advertising busyness (particularly the flash stuff) you have to wade through to get to the text. So I’ve become a big fan of Adblock Plus the lovely application that gets rid of advertising noise…
October 14, 2007
I whiled away several hours today trawling through the archives of International Psychoanalysis one of the few blogs I’ve come across in this area. There’s a very interesting article by Arlene Kramer Richards on the issue of training and licensing of practitioners (in the US) Why Do I Want to…
October 8, 2007
Reflecting on the enterprise bootcamp reminded me of Hugh McLeod’s wonderful treatise on how to be creative. You can read the full document here. My favourite chapter from it is I’d like my crayons back please. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then…
September 10, 2007
The Dublin Fringe Festival began on Saturday night and I and my blogger friend Dermod had great seats for La Clique at the Spiegeltent. Dermod has written a lovely review of the evening here but I wanted to throw in my tuppenceworth as well. For a couple of hours on…
March 15, 2007
I’m watching the world go mad Twittering. (And I’m watching the passion it arouses when you offer a different view. Call me a luddite but I don’t get it. I get it in the sense that it’s a new fangled gadget and it’s all shiny and out of the box…
March 13, 2007
Qualitative research, doesn’t tell us what is going on, at best it gives us some ideas about what might be happening. And it does this in a way that may help to trigger a new way to define or crack a problem in the planner’s mind but is laughable as…
