Category: Twitters

Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though […]

Just started to use My Blog Log to gather statistics on folks using this blog. Really very interesting the search terms people are using to find it. such as “revolution health” “weekends in krakov” Heres a screenshot taken from it:-

Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree

On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason […]

A VC (Who I note has a similar personality profile to me) has an interesting article about Myspace. I find it interesting that most parents I speak to here in the UK are not even aware of Myspace’s existence, even though Murdoch bought it for $580m in July 2005, and that most of their kids […]

Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before Icalled […]

Two takes on commoditisation one by Hugh“And selling commodities is hard. If you don’t give the customer exactly what she wants” and one from Geoff Moore“What you want to do is overcome the force of commoditization, which works to your disadvantage, eroding your margins.” Interesting reads

Visited my Pilates Teacher Daphne on her second night of the play chronicling her time in Cairo as a bellydancer. An excellent performance with some great bellydancing as well. The second part was by Caroline Ann Gold called Clinically Famous and was a dramatised version of her stay at The Priory with agitated depression coupled […]

My friend Thierry who runs Nevada Sports, a really passionate person dedicated to ski/snowboard/mountainbike sales and rental in Les Gets, France. Thierry is keen to raise his internet profile. I’ve suggested to him blogging but to no avail. His latest attempt at a web site is using Clic online to implement a flash effort. Running […]

A really cool way of testing your personality is at PersonalDNA.com using really slick sliders and 2D layouts. I’m a Free wheeling Leader apparently And two of my children are:-The Animated Visionary and The Cautious Director:- So perhaps we will get a family business up and running one day althought our common thread is a […]