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  • Annoying nuisance noisy neighbours

    Annoying nuisance noisy neighbours

    I’ve been working on a working on a project recently which helps people report noisy antisocial behaviour  so was interested to read the results of a recent survey that 25% of people have had a problem with nuisance neighbours in the past year, and the report highlights that 64% didn’t know how to get help and advice…

  • TechCrunch assesses the future of the local library

    TechCrunch assesses the future of the local library

    MG Siegler, a general partner at Google Ventures, has written a piece for TechCruch considering the viable future of the local library, a subject which can polarise opinions. It came about from another article on Wired.com – The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading which reports on the ebook pricing and distribution…

  • Making Things People Want beats Making People Want Things

    John V Willshire the founder of Smithery has written a setup piece for his talk next week at AdTech 2013 which looks at the relationship between communications and marketing with product and service development. Here’s a few highlights: “Yet something bothered me… …the things that marketing clients had to ask agencies to try and sell…

  • The high street of the future is like nothing we know

    Susie Mesure writes about Bill Grimsey’s blueprint for how to reinvent the nations town centres. “But if the present looks bleak for west London’s latest retail casualties, which join 40,000 more empty shops across the UK, then the future could be rather more exciting.” “the high street as we know it “is dead”. He envisages…

  • Overheard: Unappreciated social

    Last week I was at a conference with a large number of national and international businesses. Following some breakout sessions I was standing behind three delegates from Phones for you in the lunch queue. It appeared they had been to a session about Social Media and were rather unimpressed with what they heard. Delegate one:…

  • Silver mist shout out #MASO

    Here is a clip from Friday 26 October’s 6 Music breakfast show where Shaun Keavney reads out some middle aged shout outs. This one is for a trip to Horsham Market to see Great British Bake Off stars SarahJane Willis and Cathryn Dresser: Download mp3: 6Music MASO

  • Jelly shots for grown ups

    If you’ve matured beyond a bowl of vodka jelly at a party, but secretly miss those old boozy days, here’s something you can play with without looking like a desperate student. The www.yummly.com blog has a range of 10 you can feast on.

  • Tube pub guide

    I’m building a tube map of pubs. I have often been in the situation where I’m meeting someone for a drink at a tube station but don’t know a decent nearby pub to meet in. So I had the idea of creating a  tube map where stations were replaced by pub names. Where ever you…

  • This blog is five years old.

    I started blogging on 25 october 2006, with a stupid video of a hamster. Since that day I have moved home 4 times, changed jobs 4 times,  got engaged, got married, brought a flat,  then a cat, then a house in Sussex I’ve travelled to Switzerland,  Italy,  France,  Belgium, and Brazil. I’ve seen friends and family marry in…

  • What to blog about? Hacking? Corruption? Terrorism? Drug abuse?

    A lot has happened in the last few weeks since I last wrote, and a lot has been written across the media in various forms. But put aside those stories and go to UNICEF’s website and donate some money towards their emergency famine appeal. A child is dying every six minutes and you can help.…