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Johnnie Moore is sitting with me in The Duke of Cambridge, Islington, musing on medieval revelry. “There used to be a lot more dancing in the streets, but then the Church did away with all that. We used to be more joyous. That’s why I like Flashmobs – they’re playful. Ok, so T-mobile getting everyone […]
A century ago, around the time the block of flats I live in was built, the Regents Canal a few streets away would have been seen as a massive nuisance. The canal boats, carrying bulk goods such as coal and grain, were powered by coal-burning furnaces which spewed out dust and pollution. All day long, […]
I’m thrilled to see Oliver James, Arik Sigman and others taking the effort to slag off Twitter specifically and social networking in general in the mainstream media over the past couple of weeks. If you’ve missed any of the pieces, Lloyd Davis has done a great write up and Johnnie Moore posted an excellent Newsnight […]
It’s 1873 and the Reverend Henry Parkes is in Canton, China, writing a letter to his boss, the General Secretary of a Methodist missionary society, in London. “By next spring I shall have been resident ten years […] My objective in writing by this mail is to request permission to return home […] For myself, […]
I’ve been doing a bit more digging around and come up with some more ‘interesting’ facts about the social media presence at this year’s Davos: For the second year running, there was a YouTube Corner. Heads of state, CEOs of multinational corporations and various world dignitaries and could stop by to give their response to […]
Davos is over for another year and the obligatory pictures of middle-class, middle-aged white men in suits are all over the media. This year, the meeting was more pertinent than ever with the small issue of global financial meltdown weighing heavy on the shoulders of the 2,500 attendees. Last Sunday, The Observer’s business Editor, Ruth […]
Luis Suarez writes eloquently about the joy of seeing leading sportsmen who are not scared to show their emotions. His post reminded me of the final episode of the BBC’s Million Dollar Traders which we watched on the iplayer on Monday night. This three part series took eight “ordinary people” and gave them basic training […]
It’s a Thursday afternoon and I’m drinking tea with cultural theorist Michael Thompson in the RSA’s crowded coffee shop. In between chats with Andrew Summers, RSA trustee (whose friend, it turns out, is also publishing a book on leadership) and Alison from Triarchy Press (who’s treating us to carrot cake), Mike and I discuss how […]
NESTA’s shiny glass and chrome offices on the edge of the City of London are rather swanky. It’s a bit like finding yourself in an uber-stylish wedding, one of Anouska Hempel’s boutique hotels or, possibly, the latest series of Battlestar Galactica. Black Arne Jacobsen chairs are set off by white walls, white drapes and white […]
It’s gone 1.30pm and it’s been a long morning. James Governor and I are sitting in the Hanoi Café in London’s Kingsland Road watching the owner’s two daughters run, play and generally get in the way of the ever-smiling kitchen staff as they try to prepare food. When the Vietnamese waitress finally arrives with plates […]