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Meetup.com: a 9/11 baby
Over the weekend, I got an email from meetup.com that I thought was a great example of the internet as a tool for bringing communities together. Meetup.com was born in New York after 9/11, a simple and hopeful response to powerful events that shook communities in New York and across the world.
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An iCal understatement
I can’t say I’ve ever smiled at the sight of an iCal alert popping up in the morning. Yesterday was an exception.
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The calm before the storm
It’s Friday morning, 24 hours before Brighton Mini Maker Faire. Tomorrow is the day that has been the focal point of my life for the past 6 months. This is how it started for me.
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Over the top
Do you owe me a favour? Did you forget to get me a birthday present? (It’s tomorrow.) If so, here’s your opportunity to square things up. As you may know (I’m sure I’ve bored most of you to tears about it already) I’m helping organise Brighton Mini Maker Faire. It’s the world’s greatest event for…
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Busy, busy, busy
There’s nothing worse than reading one someone’s apologies on their blog about how they’ve been too busy to update it. So I offer no apologies for the lack of updates here over the past few weeks.
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Experimenting with Instructables and Make Projects
I’ve started posting more pieces about projects I’m working on to this site. If I’m going to spend a weekend or longer figuring out how to do something, I figure it’s worth sharing what I’ve learned with others. You can find this stuff under /projects. One of the first things I’ve shared is a set…
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Analogue natives
I went to see the wonderful Sarah Angliss at the (equally wonderful) Catalyst Club on Wednesday. She started her talk with an observation about the expression ‘digital natives’. Paraphrasing : this expression has come into popular use over the last 5 years to denote a new generation of young people who have never known anything…
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Maker Faire UK
I’ve been back from Maker Faire in Newcastle for a couple of days now. My brain is just about back to normal. Maker Faire is an exhibition, (un)conference, and general get-together of people who are interested in making stuff: craft, DIY, hackable electronics and software, art projects, science projects, robots, knitting and everything in between.
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Bike stunts and the reframing power of stories
I love watching stunt clips on YouTube. I couldn’t pull a stunt on a skateboard or bike to save my life, but they’re such joyful things to watch, I don’t care.
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Open Data Brighton and Hove
I went along to the first meet-up for Open Data Brighton and Hove last night. It was a stimulating evening with a room full of smart and knowledgable people, and a great opportunity for me to learn, as I am neither a geek, nor an open data expert. Right now, there’s no website, so if…
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