June 2009
114 posts
Market dogma is exposed as myth. Where is the new... →
Madeliene Bunting on on the need for new visions for value in society, and how Adam Curtis’ new work is reflecting our individualist society back to us
"Teen Socialization Practices in Networked... →
Danah on teens and socialization online - from her digital publics research
Huw Edwards gives us a look at the start of the News at Ten that says - “tsch. finally.”
this is quite a game. its stopping me from doing my work…
Adam Curtis’ ‘it Felt like a Kiss’ is shaping up to be ‘ways of seeing’ for the 21stC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/
Still blue skys and sun in Hove- no sign of the apocalyptic London storms. Thinking we might eat dinner in the garden…
NMA awards last night were unbelievably raucous. Dara O’Briain just gave up and did his set for just the first few rows. Lots of fun, tho’
There’s a shrine outside the Lyric in Soho where the Thriller show is on. Currently 1/5 ratio of mourners to gawkers/news crews.
Getting the train back to the sea after the @yeardot party. So many fantastic people working on that project. Proud. And Dunk.
Looking forward to next two weeks- C4 education conference, then Guardian Activate, then showcomotion, bloomsberg media, and reboot Britain
1992 - working for Cornelia Parker putting up exhibitions in Leipzig and Berlin, and meeting crazy E German arty types #bestyear
On my way to @yeardot wrap party in Soho. Hoping there’s something cold and alcoholic waiting there for me…
“I Got The…” by Labi Siffre is such a *tune* Ok, it’s got *that* sample in it, but it’s awesome by itself. Chas and Dave play on it too!
Looking forward to the NMA awards tonight. Anyone else going?
At NMA awards. They’re racing through the list, but there’s still 12 to go…
Huge congrats to @raffers for the NMA gong. So glad she won over Rose, Carter et al. Chuffed to be in such illustrious company…
jealous that @crystaltips is off to see Derren Brown tonight… Really gutted that I didn’t get tickets sorted out
RT: School of Everything has been nominated for a Techcrunch Europa Award. Would be great if you could vote for us! http://bit.ly/wedb4
Research: Fewer Than One In 10 People Download... →
inneresting…
Will Davies is writing briliant stuff at the moment. Here he is on value, adam smith and why capitalism is ‘anti-politics’: http://3.ly/glz
“monk monk monk, kerchunk kerchunk kerchunk”. Trust me, you’ll all be saying it this time next week…
Saw samphire at the fish market for the first time this year. Cooking it with sea bass, jersey royals and wine/cream sauce.
End of excellent 2day workshop in Windsor about young people and mainstream media. Some really exciting opportunities arising…
At Windsor Castle to develop a charter for better media representation of young people. Got to park (and stay overnight) in the castle!
Best of luck to @crystaltips and Littleloud at the Broadcast Digital Awards tonight!
Maybe in a globalised, connected world, Govs only have enough control for grand gestures where they have a monopoly - ie Health, Defence
In many areas - ie finance, media, comms - gov policy can only be tactical - nudges to incentivise, and bailouts when the shit hits the fan
As many of you pointed out, that was a very catty last tweet. And illumina won another award for the bbc (deservedly so). Claws retracted.
Guarding against hubris and complacency
Didn’t realise that the BBC won only *one* RTS Education award last night: http://3.ly/y81 How much is their education budget again? :-)
battlefront lost the ‘innovation award’ to BBC schools report. Oh well. I think that teaching kids to change the world is more important..
Thinking it’s a bacon sandwich kind of morning.
At RTS Education awards. We have 4 nominations in 3 categories. Fingers crossed…
We won for the amazing KNTV Sex!! And Tern Tv rightly thanked Stephen Collins, our brilliant C4 lawyer, in the speech. Battlefront up soon..
Azka’s wedding tonight, so kids at home with grandparents, whilst we’re in a posh hotel for the night. Yay!!!
On train back from NMM board meeting. Bradford has just been given ‘World City of Film’ status by UNESCO, so lots of interesting plans afoot
On train, on way to Bradford for National Media Museum board meeting. Been travelling since 6.30am, will get home about 9.30pm :-(
Labour Party woes: only connect : Matthew Taylor’s... →
Matthew Taylor on Gordon Brown’s image problem. Will Davies would describe this as elevating aesthetic value over moral value
Facebook usernames and the battle over your... →
The three factors that social media needs to deal with are transgression, identity and value. This is a great post about identity
The New Negroponte Switch →
completely awesome Jones presentation, as always…
RT @samuelpepys We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it of the City; but I do not think the City will lend a farthing. [spooky!]
I shot some rolls of medium format last week. I love this one of @moongolfer http://3.ly/8MC and @joroach http://3.ly/Kvx
just done a complete backup and restore of the home laptop. Always a bit nerve-racking, but it now zips along like a zippy thing
BTW - top tip if you’re having to rebuild a dell XP machine - press CTRL and F11 on startup to access a secret partition: http://3.ly/Sgk
Techbus, that was, not Technis…
Gutted not to be at #btween this year. Technis sounds like it’s lots of fun…
