Ever had a superficial conversation suddenly run your blood cold? On the short cab-ride to my hotel following FOWA (more to follow), the cab driver was explaining the extension of the conference venue. This is not usually the preamble to a conversation that changes your perspectives, except maybe on the architectural uses of steel spider’s… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘editorial’
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Tags: cab driver, church, context, editorial, emergent, Excel, ideas, Manchester United, Perspective, PR, steel spider, United Kingdom, web conference
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I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. I can remember being so upset I couldn’t sleep because I had to go to bed. Maybe this has bled into the present. The funny part of it all, is I’d much rather not be asleep most of the time. My wife has always confused me with… Read More
The BBC reported a few days ago that: Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The idea is that people are using the web to get things done, and don’t seem to notice that service providers want them to stick around. They even get tetchy with intrusions or… Read More
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Tags: Amazon.co.uk, Digital, editorial, Facebook, Google, ideas, interesting, Jakob Nielsen, Land Rover Discovery 3, online marketing, particular site, previously-read author, reading, Tesco, the Times, Vienna, Web 2.0, Web Users, web works
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It’s the transition which hits you. From begging your interlocutor to understand you—to even bend a little in your direction—to being understood so effortlessly but still being in an unfamiliar place. This is traveling from France to Amsterdam. In France, making an effort to speak French is mandatory; yet still everyone looks at you as… Read More
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Tags: Amsterdam, coffee, dialogue, editorial, France, interesting, me, Travel, United Kingdom
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Yesterday, I had a nightmare journey. It was the kind you think is made up by travel writers to pad out the pages between interesting sights and ‘how-to’s of ticket management. It didn’t help that my reason for going was to have a chat with the JobCentre Plus (Plus benefits, I assume) about allocation of… Read More
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Tags: Abbey National, bank, Birmingham New Street, cab driver, coffee, editorial, Google, HSBC, Interview, Jobcentre Plus PUB, retail park, The Royal Bank of Scotland, ticket management, trains, Travel, travel writers, weather, zach
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Jacqui Smith’s New Immigration Measures are a pointless Gesture…
Technorati Tags: immigration,UK Politics,politics,USA,trans-atlantic,interesting Blogging about politics can be a bit of a mixed bag, so we’ll see how it goes. I want to avoid polarising talk, tabloid tactics, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Instead, I’d like to discuss the latest raft of changes which seek to make immigrants ‘more British’ before offering them… Read More
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Tags: BBC, Belgium, Britain, Colorado, commentator, Digital, Domenico Depalo, editorial, European Union, Finsbury Park mosque, Franco Peracchi, GBP, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's government, headlines and controversial fundamentalist cleric, Home Secretary, horrible, ideas, immigration, immigration services, Jacqui Smith, London, National Statistics Office, OECD, politics, Radio 4, test site, The Star, the Times, United Kingdom, United States
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