2008

Aug

Chris, Alice and Matilda: Dinner time in Chris and...

Olivia wrecking a sandcastle

Matilida on the beach

Alice plays the drums

Holly and Olivia

Olivia on the beach: Olivia on the beach at Les Sables...

Rose on the Beach: In Les Sables d’Olonne

Rose on the beach: Rose digging in the sand on the beach at...

Chris, Alice, Matilda and Helen

Chris and Alice: In the woods near the beach at La...

Matilda and Helen

Olivia in the woods

Rose in her Newspaper Pirate’s hat: At Chris &...

new 3G dongle means i can work on the train home to Hove. Not sure if this is such a good thing....

quick! more coffee for @blackbeltjones! he’s clearly on a roll…

Monisha chops mint: Monisha from the Jamieoliver.com website...

Pasta Flourish: Danny drops in the pasta with a flourish

Danny stirs the sauce: Danny McCubbin from JamieOliver.com...

Matt the chef: Matt is a local catering student, and...

Christine cooks Chinese Chili Beef: One of the MOF...

Demo Board: Enticing the punters in with a schedule of...

Outside the Centre: The Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food centre...

GameTap presents American McGee's Grimm

Clay Shirky at Edinburgh TV Festival: Clay Shirky makes...

why is the lady violinist just in her pants?

can I have one of those Tron light cycles from the closing ceremony for Xmas plz?

Lunch with @cshirky and @louby after Clay totally pwned the TV Festival. Fantastic speech.

Tom Thurlow at Edinburgh tv festival talking about his viral hollyoaks/BB stuff. Best session so...

will be interesting to see @cshirky telling stories about mass audiences and entertainment that will...

Peter Fincham sticks the knife into OFCOM’s public purposes, and calling for focus on...

in a huge church in Edinburgh with the great and good from the business that is meeja.

In Edinburgh at Luvvie-Fest.

one of the worst phrases in the English language: “I’m sorry, we’ve run out of...

on my way to edinburgh for the TV luvvie-fest. Hoping to meet up with @toppage and @louby for a bit...

YouTube - An anthropological introduction to...

tom loosemore as head of 4IP finally announced. Now the fun begins!

train broken down in Peterborough. National Express fail.

on train to Rotherham to see people learning how to cook with a certain cheeky cockney celeb chef.

Train doors opened to salty drizzle smelling evocatively of the sea. Tells me I’ve left the...

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education —...

olympics, premiership and X Factor. Will I ever leave the sofa again?

eating oat and coconut cookies made by rose and olivia. one of the pleasures of working from...

in Edinburgh, about to go to dinner with @joroach, @crystaltips and @ewanmacintosh

Jesus. First day back at work a total information overload. Needed Pixies marathon on train home to...

feeling very excited after last night’s drinks with 50+ mentors for www.battlefront.co.uk - I...

5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids...

Seth's Blog: The secret of the web (hint:...

hello horseferry road! did you miss me?

watching spurs v roma online - 3-0 to the spurs! Bent’s scored 11 in pre-season. I take back...

in that weird interzone between coming back from holiday and having to go back to work. Not quite...

Last day of holiday. Watching Olympics opening ceremony whilst Rose and Olivia dance around like its...

back in blighty, and very pleased to see www.battlefront.co.uk launch whilst I was in France sunning...

Back! Back! BACK!

Jul

at St Pancras, about to depart for Le Disneyland with over-excited toddlers. Wish me luck.

ahh…. if only all days were like this.

At home, finally sorting out the 14 crates of vinyl in the garage. Potential for procrastination is...

Participate_WP2.3_Design Methods_ User...

Virtual Pursuits - Who’s on the Radar? :...

thinking about organising a dinner with @gargano. *long* overdue…

random acts of kindness #1 - a work colleague buying me a box of Kleenex Balsam tissues and some...

urgh. Have man-flu.

very pleased that www.myspace.com/yeardot is back up. phew.

recovering from minor cold and major Myspace FAIL

its far too late to be doing a complex excel document and stats presentation, isn’t it?

at home, working, and feeling incredibly productive with the added bonus of having the kids within...

What The F**K is Social Media?

Yahoo offers 400 ad funded PC games — Digital...

Crash Bandicoot on iPhone is great fun. I’m suddenly into mobile games again for the first...

Ooh. New apps on old iPhone are fantastic. Not sure I can be bothered to upgrade…

wanting super monkey ball. badly.

Olivia on the flight to Florence: “I’ll have the...

Rose on the flight to Florence

Cojones and Loosemorals: Looks like Tom’s just broken...

Me at No 10: Cheesy, but it had to be done…

TIm Berners-Lee at NESTA: and the backs of Bobbie Johnson...

Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA

listening to sleazy funk on the way to work. Everything is better with a bit of wah-wah and Rhodes.

Charlie Leadbeater giving a good mention to 2gether08

Listening to TBL describe the web as a collection of fishbones, soap, and pubic hair. Not a bad...

At Tim Berners-Lee talk at NESTA. Lots of the usual faces here…

surrounded by welsh paraphenalia. Feeling @blackbeltjones heritage all around me…

at London Welsh Centre, meeting teens who are running campaigns for a future project

to the New Forest! And Beyond!

looking at a beautiful sunset on the train back to Hove. All is well in the world.

#2gether I might be biased, but the last 2 days have been the most fun, stimulating and exciting so...

Www.resistnetwork.com #2gether

#2gether- Steve Moore just brought in 200 free bottles of Fentimans Ginger Beer. Now *that’s*...

Tim Wright giving a tour of the state of the art in audio innovation at #2Gether08

listening to Ben Page from MORI - excellent session on ‘cultural polyphasia’ - or why we...

thanks to @russelldavies for his fantastic talk. really enjoying day 2 at #2Gether

at 2Gether. god, russell davies is good. not looking forward to following him…

on way to day 2 of 2gether. Looking forward to hearing Russel Davies. Not looking forward to...

Wordle - public

what you said when you thought of the word ‘public’: http://tinyurl.com/587yqj -...

yay for school of everything! Yay for for mysociety! Oh well for Murray

first in line for the bar at 2gether08. Priorities, priorities…

having Leica envy, after seeing Lawrence from PictureLtd with his M8…

Julian Baggini at 2Gether08 - 2/3rds of Britons live within 5 miles of where they work

at Julian Baggini talk - great stuff on living in Rotherham, and how less is changing than we might...

twitter crowd survey for my talk at 2Gether tomorrow - what 3 words come to mind when you hear the...

loving the atmosphere at 2Gether - feels like a summer fete populated by great brains instead of...

Media literacy - Wikiversity

Media literacy - Wikipedia, the free...

had my essential project meetings at work, now off to @2gether08!

very excited about YearDot launch: http://www.yeardot.co.uk/ and http://www.myspace.com/yeardot

getting very excited about @2gether08 - fantastic lineup of speakers and projects. See you there?

day off in the sun in Brighton. So how come I seem to be doing work instead of cycling along the...

Jun

the ice-cream van just stopped *right outside our house*. We have two very excited daughters…

Home made pizza picnic in the garden. Rose seems to love football, which is heartening. I just have...

got my first ever speeding ticket in the post today. Feel like a dirty petrol-head.

Desiring pancakes

rare time playing with kids and a large cardboard box. Its a car! Taking us to Disneyland! Waves at...

On train to Hove. Fellow passengers are 50% elderly groups heading back after matinees, 30% drunk...

at minibar for the last leg of a ridiculously busy fortnight. Fucking knackered.

just arrived at Hide and Speak conference at the RFH

listening to Beta Band EPs, and remembering I downloaded these MP3s from @blackbeltjones to my...

on train back to Hove after NMA awards and weird day of plotting and strange conferences. Tomorrow...

Attracting pigeons in the park. Shoo pigeons! Shoo!