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Understatement of the week- Ben Goldacre tenacious
Went to the wonderful “Geek Girls” event about wordpress today, at MadLab. Met Mike Little, who was – like the other people there – the picture of affability and helpfulness. He and I had a brief conversation about reputation management … Continue reading
What have ye done?
About 15 years ago I stumbled upon a great essay by Samuel Johnson called “What Have Ye Done?” Here’s a youtube presentation. For any Americans who may have wandered in, the bit at 3 mins 44 is irony. And since … Continue reading
The falseness of flipcharts
Have just endured another horrific meeting. Two hours was the total time, and the first person to speak who wasn’t the chair or the guest speaker (managed to spend 35 minutes on a 20 minute presentation) opened their mouth fifty … Continue reading
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Confidence and competence
A week or so ago (like, forever in Internet time) I replied to a friend’s Facebook comment (a meat-space friend, that is, you know, who I drink beer with) about competence. I cited a piece about Dick(head) Cheney written in … Continue reading
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Reposting about time wasted
Hmm, just spent a lovely day with the missus. Watched a film I haven’t seen for 20 years (a lot crapper than I remember- I should leave good memories alone!) and also “The Good Shepherd,” which I thought was bloody … Continue reading
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Beyond the Banality Point?
Here we go again. Another daring and innovative idea, another belly-flop. Last night went to the launch of “Beyond the Tipping Point? Conversations on Climate, Action and the Future.” There’s lot to say around this subject, on topics like Terror … Continue reading
Ritualised ‘resistance’ – ESF to Climate Camp
Have just ploughed through enough of my reading (lots of Red Peppers) to get to “Meaning in Movement: An ideational analysis of Sheffield-based Protest Networks Contesting Globalisation and War” by Kevin Gillan. I started reading it years ago, and liked … Continue reading
Saints preserve us: know wtf you are talking aboutn
Classic smugosphere moment. Can’t go into detail because it would be unfair and unwise, but just had a lovely interaction with someone who is campaigning on issue X, and assures me that the key demand they are working towards is … Continue reading
Nulture
Despite what it may seem like, I don’t go round trying to come up with shoddy neologisms. Smugosphere, Transruptive and Nulture are about it, really. Well, so far. Here’s the Nulture vid, with a great song by TV Smith kicking … Continue reading
Transruptive video
OK, so I created a youtube channel. I wanted dwighttowers, but that was taken. So I went for “dwighttowering” instead. The first video has a slightly less happy clappy ending than is probably appropriate (for any ‘come join the activism’ … Continue reading
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