The Caring Web

…or friendly concern at the speed of RSS.

I posted this to flickr from my cameraphone this morning and within minutes Euan had e-mailed to see if I was OK. Seems those eyes look a bit starey. And actually the colour balance doesn’t do me any favours – they look a bit red too. And of course I haven’t shaved and I hadn’t had time to caption it.

When I’d stopped giggling, I was actually very touched that a hand could be outstretched so quickly thanks to O2, flickr, rss feeds and aggregators… oh, and that nice chap in Buckinghamshire.

Social Tools and their business applications

stowe boydThanks to Abelone who pointed out that we should be doing more showing and less telling.

In that spirit, let me show you some of the things that I was talking about in my presentation at the Unicom conference this morning…

First off – objects of sociability. Here are some things that let you get to see me in a richer way and get to know me online. So OK, let’s get this one out of the way – g-room shampoo shower scene – nuff said.

Here’s my youtube channel you can see everything I produce in public coming through – subscribe if you like what you see.

Here’s my flickr photostream and here it is in RSS format

If you’re interested in what I read through RSS everyday, you can see my public subscription list for bloglines

And the photos from this geek dinner show you what a variety of views you can get to see through tags in flickr.

Here’s a public example of a conference I’ve participated in – it has pre-conference podcasts, pictures, posts and videos from the day – on this occasion we also provided podcasting services, but those were held back for participants only.

Less event focused but in a similar vein, we contributed a lot of content to the consultation site on the Government’s proposed Creative & Media Diploma for 14-19 year olds

Technokitten’s Irish Picnic Adventure




Gary Numan in mad eye mode

Originally uploaded by technokitten.

I’ve really enjoyed seeing Helen’s pictures of the Electric Picnic coming in through her flickr stream this week.

She’s back and has just posted a write-up and it just sounds a beautiful cross between idyllic, serene and crazy ape bonkers.

“Next was Gary Numan, who was awesome. Can’t get Are Friends Electric out of my head. And he was having such a good time on stage he couldn’t help grinning. Mooched around a bit including partaking of some flavoured oxygen. Then headed over to see the Super Furry Animals who I’m sure played a great set, but I just don’t know any of their songs so it all kind of passed my by. Sarah and I discovered Tilly and The Wall who have a tap dancer instead of a drummer. Kinda curious but kinda worked I think. Then I managed a bit of Belle and Sebastian (which was surprisingly rammed) and then I headed off to Sparks who were utterly brilliant. Quickly followed by New Order (where they announced Kelly Osbourne’s wedding in the Inflatable Church), grabbed some food and then listened to Groove Armada from the comfort of our own tent.”

Flavoured oxygen??!?!? Flavoured??!!? Oxygen??!!?!!

Down to Horseferry Road Magistrates Court

In local news, 11 people are right now inside the court buildings and about to be charged with conspiracy to murder in connection with an alleged plot to bomb transatlantic flights.  The Pimlico branch office here has been buzzed by helicopters all morning, so when I had a little slot in my schedule, I wandered over to Horseferry Road.

I got there after the suspects had arrived and obviously some time before they were again to emerge, but I did capture some footage, mainly of the assembled members of the news media who, unlike me, get paid to sit around and wait for things to happen.

Shot in the park, by David Wilcox

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David has just published the video interviews he grabbed from people in Hyde Park last Wednesday.  Really interesting stuff here from a variety (though all male 😛 ) of perspectives, but of course you’ll be most interested (NOT!) to hear what inarticulate nonsense I came up with.  God, the park looks dry!  Hopefully the last few days rain has helped, but we do need lot’s more.  It’s my favourite sort of London day today – blue skies, sunshine, cool breeze.

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Windows Live Writer – me likee


Hey dig the cool virtual earth map that I get to insert easily when I use Windows Live Writer (Beta).  It’s a bit fiddly working out how to make it right-align and get my text to flow on the left as I’ve become accustomed to…  but I’m sure I’ll find a way (Yup, found it – just dragged and dropped it)

That’s where I am – right now – I have an enormous red push pin stuck in my head and I’m standing out in the yard (where we did the Stormhoek experiments). 

And I’d like to be able to add technorati tags easily & automagically (like Flock does).  Aha – I spy a plugin (would like to not have to install .NET framework for it to work…)

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A New Generation of Videobloggers

Peter joined YouTube 5 days ago and is this week’s number #1 for subscriptions (#31 of all time, so far). He’s 78 years old and talks simply and beautifully from his armchair “in the middle of the UK” about his life and what he thinks. This one is his latest and most touching – he’s not surprisingly blown away by the reaction he’s had from members of the YouTube community.

Peter’s a member of what we’re calling the New Generation – people who never thought they’d get this old, let alone have another fifteen or twenty years to live. He rocks. Watch him and don’t get goosebumpy and dewy-eyed. I dare you.

Send me a message

Send Me A MessageHad lovely lunch with lovely Suw today. She reminded me of lots of things I’ve seen in passing and not delved into for a while, but I was particularly taken with the Odeo voice messaging service which you can now see on the sidebar.

Talk to me. Leave me a message and I’ll aggregate them into a wee podcast.

E-mail is b0rked, let’s try something differenter(ly).

I'm the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities.