“Our kids don’t know what it’s like to be bored…” my uncle mentioned in passing last week. I write this on my laptop with Whale Rider on the TV in front of me, my iphone next to me, a zillion tabs open in firefox…I notice how these days if I’m in a cab or even [...]

I keep wondering about the oil spill – and what I can do… And I’m thinking about what I should be thinking and why I feel slightly detached and apathetic and am also wondering why there isn’t everyone of us is standing over the spill with a straw and hose and…because frankly this isn’t just [...]

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

It’s been a ‘fun’ time at work this week when we launched a new version of our online platform. There are so many different languages and assumptions between all the different groups: product, marketing, designers, engineers…but at the end of the day what you want is a product that users find well, usable. And love [...]

In conversation with Chaim yesterday he mentioned, almost in passing, letting go to "life’s intricate dance". I’ve been thinking about his words – and thought you might also like to. As I sit and write I also recall a line from Dr. Seuss’s Oh The Places You’ll Go "I’m afraid that some times you’ll play [...]

I just saw this image and was reminded of something I wanted to blog about almost 2 years ago – "everyone can draw" If you ask a child if they can draw they will likely say ‘yes’ and grin. They will also likely go draw you something and expect you to see what it is [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world. Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]

"The world of two. Now one" – Natalie Shell More in storyworld – above is my first play with nanotales – 6 line stories and so forth. Certainly it isn’t Hemingway‘s: "Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn"   But it is fun to practice and I thought it was a good entry into this article on [...]

Greetings from London! So I have had the pleasure of England the last few weeks and the privilege of staying with some fabulous friends and families so thank you! Have resisted the internet for the most part but today wanted to share some things I’m thinking and seeing: Banksy: I may be a bit late [...]