A single bus journey in Brighton costs £1.80. The day of the London to Brighton charity cycle the train companies ban bicycles from making the return journey by train. BP has dropped plans for UK wind farms Now that I have delivered you a few facts that bug me, I will aim to get to the point. I took the bus yesterday and, when I mentioned the extortionately expensive fee in the cab on the way...
I watched Dragon’s Den the other day. If you don’t know the format, it is like Pop Idol for inventors/wannabe entrepreneurs etc. In between the moments when I have to leave the room out of sheer embarrassment for the ‘pitchers’, I quite like all the crazy and brilliant ideas and the different approaches people have. Anyway. True to form a chap steps out and pitches his idea for a safety gadget...
My mother is off to travel the world. She has retired from the sometimes rewarding often frustrating world of teaching in a modern world, her children can take care of themselves so she has packed her bag and is leaving us! As one of the results of her life’s work to date, it is my job to ensure we all get to find out what she is up to. So here goes: 1) The first 6 months of her journey...
I’ve noticed this new thing I do. Once upon a time if I was struggling with something tech-like I would go to Google and either find something useful or not. Alternatively I would open my msn or maybe my mobile and try and match a person to the problem. These days I Twitter and, as if by magic, the answer appears! And I find myself answering questions too, it’s not all take. So, here...
I think we can safely say that I am quite comfortable with the interweb. For me it really is a utility without which I complain. So, I don’t think it comes as a terrible surprise that I am often taken aback by people’s concerns about using something like flickr. “I don’t want pictures of my family where the whole world can see them!” One of my friends goes as far as...
I got to play with one of the early versions of The Venice Project, had a few hassles running later versions, and now I have a shiny new version that I can talk about. Hurrah! It’s quite cool actually. I’m going to start small as I am not entirely clear what I am and am not allowed to talk about but I’m sure Simon will tell me. To be honest, the content isn’t quite up my...
My mother was very pleased to announce to me that her Skype ‘hearing aid’ had arrived. It is too easy to forget that the terminology we [people that ‘work with computers’] use all the time just isn’t used or understood by others. I had a moment with a client the other day – “why don’t you ask them [the participants] if they have narrowband or...
My friend Leisa wrote a post about participation culture recently. This is a subject she and I talk about quite often, mostly because she is a serious blogger and I am a little reserved about the whole thing. She is not the only one who talks about it and in her post Leisa references a Jakob Nielsen alertbox which talks about encouraging participation. I am with her when she says that: These are...
Ivanka Majic works in technology. She was Head of Design for Ubuntu, service managed Digital Marketplace through to beta, was acting director of digital for the Labour Party. She lives and works in Brighton where she works with the council’s digital first team, does a bit of teaching at Sussex University, and works with her husband on projects like restaurantsbrighton.co.uk and the BRAVOs. She has also started a podcast with her friend Michael which you can listen to at grandpodcast.com.