Talk to Me Bubbles update

What started as a laptop experiment, is proving to be a great technology for events. Please use the hashtag #lbubbles to add your own stories to the talk to me bubbles experiences.
Talk to me bubbles have now been successfully tested at several conferences and business events including:
Deutsche Telecoms Innovation Day – Will men in suits [...]

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Mind your language: I am not a “Human Resource”

I’ve heard the phrase Human Resources a lot lately and I have to say it sticks in my throat.
Why?
Because it embodies the attitudes of corporations and all that is wrong with the system in the first place.
To see the human as a resource, is too see us as something to be owned, mined, optimized, used, [...]

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Changing Reality

Ok, so I’ve said what I do here, but what do I want to do? What am I about, what motivates me, what drives me?
Changing Reality motivates me
What the fuck do I mean by this?
Reality is a construct.
It is a story that we tell ourselves for why we are here and what we can achieve.
Everything [...]

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ahumanright.org

It starts with a bold premise. All change does. Bold, unreasonable, uncompromising.
Information is a human right
I can vouch for that, i’ve been without a laptop for 4 weeks, and I feel intellectually and conversationally crippled. Like someone took away a large part of my mind, my ears and my mouth. But i’ve been able to [...]

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What do I do?

A common enough question, but one I struggle to answer. When asked recently for a job title or description I flipantly wrote “google me”. Strangely I now have no title.
I believe that I’m not alone in this loose definition of self, in terms of work. I aspire to fluidity and therefore would rather not define [...]

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Laptop Bubbles

Based on a previous conversation with Peter Bihr and being in a space for 6 weeks where I can do pretty much anything . I decided to play with some basic technology for a change.
The supposition is simple. Express what you want to talk about on your laptop. Grant permission for people to talk to [...]

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Building business environments

Etsy/Folksy/Dawanda meets Instructables
Open and distributed models of product development create an environment in which products can evolve, advance, and be produced as needed, where needed. However designers and innovators attitudes repeatedly return to “yes very nice, how am I going to get paid?”
Financial reward does not flow from the idea, it flows from the market. [...]

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atoms&bits festival

I’m really excited about the atoms&bits festival. I’ve volunteered to help with it, having got the taste for Barcamp/Unconference organising with Barcamp Sheffield 2.1 and Unsheffield.
atoms&bits is an un-event, where barcamp and unconference principles are extrapolated across Berlin and beyond. It’s scope continually expanding – as any one can run their own micro event as [...]

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Legal Paralysis

Do too many laws, prevent us from actually doing anything good?
George Monbiot highlights, present alarming police activity and our ever steady progress towards a police state in the name of freedom. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jun/22/kingsnorth-fit-police-surveillance
However this question isn’t just about the laws and how their being applied, which is indeed of grave concern. But also of how our [...]

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Permissive Conversation Spaces

Is it possible to create zones and areas in public, where we feel comfortable talking to strangers?
Post BarCamp Sheffield 2.1 I was mulling over the impact of the event and some of the technologies we implemented. On analysis I realised that a lot of the success of the event arose from the fantastic conversations that [...]

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