I fell about laughing at a recent catch-up with colleagues, as one of our party came to the realisation that I am not, in fact writing pornography! but rather, I am writing a graphic novel and graphic novels are not synonymous with porn.
In lay terms, a graphic novel is like a comic book for grown-ups. [...]
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I’m writing a graphic novel
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If it aint broke, don’t buy a new one
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My partner has taken to telling me that my mobile phone belongs in a museum. Friends suggest that when I have forgotten my phone it is because even I, am now embarrassed to be seen with it. My son thinks I should, and I quote, “kill it quickly!” Colleagues spy it sitting on the table [...]
Call me the Dr
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Here I am at the Brightstar 8th Annual Intranet and Portals Conference in Wellington, New Zealand.
Nearing the end of day 1 of the conference. I have given a presentation on Modelling Collaboration using the current work for the World Wide Fund for Nature, facilitated a 1-day workshop on the Intranet Hive and have only one [...]
Online interview
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little while ago, Ryan Witte contacted me, made a few comments on my blog and asked if he could interview me. Due to travel (mine) and extended sickness (also mine) it’s been a long time between conversations, however after some recent to-ing and fro-ing online to carry out the interview, it’s now live on [...]
Is Google making us stupid?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I attended an Enterprise Content Management conference in San Francisco. The buzz on the floor was Nicholas Carr’s article in the Atlantic: Is Google making us stupid? According to Carr “foraging through the Web’s info-thickets” is leaving him barren of concentration, he says that as “the media theorist Marshall McLuhan [...]
A week ahead of tragedy in Jaipur
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve recently been travelling through Malaysia, India and Nepal, carrying out work for WWF. In my travels it seems I’ve been one week ahead of tragedy. I left Malaysia a week before the cyclone hit Burma not too far from where I was and I left Jaipur in India less than a week before seven [...]
The universal language: shopping!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to the locals, in centuries past, everyone wanted to take over Jaipur (pron. Jay-poor) and many efforts were made to take the area by force. Located south, south, west of Delhi (Dilli), Jaipur is a dessert area, surrounded by hills that afford natural protection. Each ridge is lined with a defensive wall and posts [...]
Michael Sampson: Collaboration without Chaos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brightstar 6th Annual Information Management Summit, Collaboration, Fork, Implicit algorithms, Knife, machine algorithms, Michael Sampson, Sharepoint, Spoon on April 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Insider knowledge: Michael has already blogged about his presentation and set it on a time-delay for publishing so even though he won’t touch his computer, at the end of this presentation a blog-post on his presentation will be posted, and here it is http://www.michaelsampson.net/2008/04/notes-on-the-ke.html. Old link lying in wait http://www.michaelsampson.net/chaos.html
The title of Michael’s presentation ‘Collaboration [...]
Departure lounge
Posted in art, creating, self on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In keeping with current practices, this painting was named by the person who had the strongest reaction to it. Interestingly enough, a few weeks later when I told him the painting was finished and referred to it by name, he didn’t recall naming it!
More than any of the paintings, this one has undergone the most [...]
