Destination 2014 or Destination Tamworth

Tony’s post over on Okotie World about SatNav systems got me thinking about various journey metaphors. Tuesday, I went to the first of the Capacity Builders Destination 2014 consultation events which was for the South East Region and held in Oxford, i’ll come back to the review, but on the way home my train [...]

On your marks …

Last week I mentioned the Olympic funding story. I’ve just been told an ICT provider I know in Lincolnshire has set-up an E-Petition campaigning to object to the way money could be used to meet the funding shortfall.
Please sign-up if you agree and if you agree strongly blog about the issue around the (out of [...]

BBC Blog

The BBC are running a live blog today – its called First Post a sort of capture the nation on 22nd January thing. Current posts are quite diverse from the story of a lorry driver (post 5) using his website and blogs to keep in touch with his family back home to people battling with [...]

They’re all taking the WEEE

Fergal from the Northern Ireland ICT Consortium (like our ICT Hub I guess), who I met at the Circuit Riders conference blogged about this story from the BBC today. In my previous life I managed a computer re-use and recycling project in Mansfield – part of the Groundwork empire. Unfortunately the project had to close… [...]

… and the winner of the wooden spoon is …

Here’s a practical way collaboration could perhaps make a real difference in a practical way for the sector. If you need a reminder before this one slips too far down the “brain in-tray” check the original thread Susie started over on her blog.
NAVCA now have a strong viewpoint on this potential threat to funding and [...]

Don’t get put off by Kettle 2.0

We’d got a new kettle in the kitchen when I arrived in the office today. Probably just like it is in your office we all troop religiously back and fro at frequent intervals throughout the day to ensure our caffeine levels are kept topped up. There’s nothing new in the end result – it [...]

Catch

Caught up with a the ICT Hub lot yesterday – good to find out news and updates… via the good old method of… er talking around a table! Trivial (discussing Big Brother) and serious (which style of trophy we should have for the hub awards!
Em Tee, I can confirm Newark Station coffee shop is now [...]

mega-conversations

I was going to write tonight about about the FOSS Ubuntu usability debate that has been taking place on ukriders but thought that’s not very Web2.0 is it… why read my version of it when you can instead have it first-hand on the discussion list and comment live to the debate.
Instead to add to [...]

nth degree

What annoys me is when the press take a story – albeit usually a true story and spin it “to the nth degree“. Why can’t facts be presented for us all to make up our own minds about, do we really need some 2nd rate hack telling us what to make of a story? [...]

2007 – throw a six to start

Why do we do it ? Queue for hours to buy things in the week before Christmas… give and receive… then queue for hours to take things back, or load our unwanted gifts onto eBay before the Turkey has even been totally consumed?! There’s got to be other ways to tell special friends how much [...]