One of my stock, slightly barbed, responses to people who refute the idea of Cloud computing on the basis of trustworthiness and security goes a little something like this: "Does your company store its most important asset, its money, underneath a large, corporate-sized mattress? No? What is the banking system, then, other than a public … Continue reading The financial cloud
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Achievements on the last week of my second year of weeknoting: - continuing to refine the new year plans for evangelism - good catch up time with friends in St James' - an entertaining day at the Methodist Central Hall for LeWeb - and the pleasure of hearing that for someone my views "renewed their … Continue reading Weeknote 104: biennial
The exciting announcements from my American colleagues earlier this week (see http://www.surface.com/) illustrated one mighty strange thing about how social networks in general, and Twitter and link shortening services in particular have changed quite fundamentally the way in which hyperlinking works, and how we are dangerously reliant on these closed services. On Tuesday morning, I … Continue reading Redirection
A few nights ago we had a chap from a local building company visit us to start to quote for some work we are looking to do. At the end of the evening, he left us with a business card and a DVD. The next morning my wife gave the disc in its sleeve to … Continue reading My digital life
I found myself at Richmond Station on Saturday night, wending my way home after a very enjoyable day with old school friends, celebrating yet another one of our 40th birthdays. On the staircase down to the westbound platform, it looks like some false walls have been removed and, in turn, a series of advertising posters … Continue reading A simpler age
Achievements this week included: - analysis of the current apps world from some consistent sources - four great sessions at the Cloud Computing World Forum - solid progress on setting performance objectives for the team for the new Financial Year - role specs for some new positions in the team defined - and reviewing of … Continue reading Weeknote 103: just me and the boys…
Following on from yesterday's post, a little crowd-sourcing experiment. All of this, by the way, is in aide of helping me create a 20-slide, 15 seconds per slide presentation that I'm doing in a few weeks time in the Ignite style... The premise: most innovation comes not from plucking ideas out of thin air, but … Continue reading #innovationeqs
In a few weeks I'm going to be taking part in an Ignite event (a presentation of 20 slides, 15 seconds each, and they automatically advance) and have been thinking about subjects... after a few ideas that would have probably thoroughly offended most of the audience (many from the digital agency world), I think I'm … Continue reading Creativity is borne of simple algebra
When I was at university, information was a scarce resource. The library in the centre of the campus at Loughborough was a gigantic structure, a looming, modernist, upside down pyramid which inside had the necessary hush and darkness befitting of an academic book repository. The only thing it really lacked was enough books to cope … Continue reading Sorry sir – the internet ate my homework
One of the trends that has played such havoc in the creative industries in the past decade has been the way in which the internet had reduced the cost of content distribution to such an extent that anyone can become a publisher. Whether the impact that digital photography and photo sharing services have had on … Continue reading The amateurisation of marketing
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