Project achievements this week: - fibre vertical cabling installed in London office - positioning work re-scoped - archive solutions investigation underway - Creative Suite work moved on Additionally: - presented at Atmosphere Next week in one word: October (already!)
The thoughts last week out of using the Tobii eye-tracking system has made me realise why I struggle so much with a touchscreen to type. I'm typing this on my BlackBerry. I'm staring at the screen, because (as with a full-size keyboard) I touch type. On my Android phone, because there is no physical reference … Continue reading Touch typing
The Cure - Lovesong And so to the last year of the 1980s, and a song by The Cure, the only band that I become a bit obsessed with. There was something mystical about Robert Smith. The crumpled clothes, the bird's nest hair, the hi-top trainers, the wavering voice and the songs. My old Smooly … Continue reading 1989
Yello - The Race I love a bit of ultra-produced pop. Yello were the weirdest of things... Dieter Meier, a millionaire Swiss industrialist, and his sidekick Boris Blank. Looking like a European Terry Thomas, I can envisage Meier holed up in his depths-of-a-mountain lair, surrounded by Fairlight CMI music computers and over-fluffy cats, plotting to … Continue reading 1988
New Order - True Faith My favourite song. Ever. True Faith is special to me in so many ways. New Order were a musical bridge for me, taking me from hip hop and electronica into the world of guitars, indie and later grunge. The video a kaleidoscope of colour, oversized dogs, and face slapping. And … Continue reading 1987
One of the scariest things about the whole "Web 2.0" thing for IT and IS management is that it seems to break the long-held problem-solution paradigm that's served the industry so indifferently for the past 50 years. As we've begun our roll-out of Google Docs, core in our thinking has been a team- and user-centred … Continue reading It’s all in the timing
I've been mulling over the ideas expressed by Don Tapscott at Atmosphere 2010 (and no doubt in his new book Macrowikinomics) about how the combination of Web 2.0 and the maturing digital generation is forcing organisations to re-evaluate traditional models of management and leadership. Rather than "coming from the top", leadership needs to be demonstrated … Continue reading Challenging leadership
Day two of Atmosphere was a slightly more involved event for me, as I ran a couple of workshop sessions on how we went about delivering Google Apps into Imagination. I was preceded by a demo of ChromeOS. Joking before with Xen (product demonstrator and stuntman), it promised to be the most uninteresting demonstration in … Continue reading Travelblog 3.2 – Google Atmosphere
I spent a great day today at the Atmosphere event today, with a mix of speakers who opened up some interesting lines of discussion. Above everything, I think that the recurring theme was that the challenges that the Cloud poses for organisations today is in the way in which the "democratising" effects of web-based services … Continue reading Travelblog 3.1 – Google Atmosphere
A mini-travelblog for the Google Atmosphere event taking place just outside Chantilly. Arrived, after a bit of an expedition involving three trains, a bit of a wait, a realisation that cabs are probably unlikely in a Parisian suburb on a Sunday, and a madcap dash in a Renault Clio driven by a bloke from a … Continue reading Travelblog 3.0 – Google Atmosphere
