Just a quick pointer to an event I’m helping to organise tomorrow evening in central London: Politicos meet Gamers – Adam Street Club, 9 Adam Street, London WC2N 6AA. [tickets] There are still a few tickets left and I’ve outlined some of my own thinking behind why it’s a worthwhile meetup to attend and I’ve [...]
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Politicos and gamers need to get to know each other
I’ve been thinking a bit about how there is almost a generational divide between those of us whose experiences have been dominated by broadcast and narrative, and those who are much more attuned to interactivity and gaming – either as players or creators. I’ve written this up here in preparation for on occassional series of [...]
Like building a block of flats without doorhandles
In my scarce spare-time, I’ve started work on a non-commercial ‘hyperlocal’ website in my neighbourhood. It has brought home to me just how near-yet-far local social networking is from achieving what it could do. It’s in it’s early stages, but go and have a look at Finchlinks and tell me what you think? The whole [...]
Raising the ‘chatter level’
If you will permit me a small plug for some work I’m doing, I’d like to tell you a bit about The Centre for School Design – a project that was launched on Monday evening by the British Council for School Environments (BCSE). I’ve been very interested in Ty Goddard’s work for a while now [...]
Leadership is the key
Since the launch of PICamp in late May, a number of important themes have been highlighted and addressed. The main one, it seems, is the small-p political nature of many changes that are happening at the moment – changes that are brought about by the rapid take-up of usergenerated content tools. These have been fleshed [...]
New ideas in Belfast
In Belfast earlier this week, working on the inaugural PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp alongside Amplified 09. We had some great coverage from the BBC’s Hearts & Minds programme – Nothern Ireland’s Thursday evening political slot. [youtube]EndCLDbf_7o[/youtube] Steve Lawson liveblogged the whole day heroically here including some audioclips that can be listened [...]
Why ‘gamechanging’ makes for better politics
On Tuesday, I’ll be in Belfast (un)organising an Unconference called PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp. I’m working with the Slugger O’Toole weblog and Amplified ’09 in doing this, and we’re hoping to have sixteen sessions (that’s how many we have time and space for) – each one initiated by attendees. The most exciting thing [...]
Announcing picamp Belfast
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be promoting and working on ‘picamp’ – the political innovation camp event in Belfast on the 26th of May. This project is being done in conjunction with the Northern Ireland political weblog Slugger O’Toole, with NESTA-sponsored Amplified ’09 and Queens University Belfast who have kindly allowed us [...]
Slugger O’Toole Awards 2009
The planning for the 2009 Slugger O’Toole Awards has begun in earnest. The 2008 awards were a terrific success, underlining Slugger‘s status as a blog that is positively engaged with the political process. Where recent press headlines have focussed upon the anti-political nature of some of the more nihilistic high-volume political blogs – and the [...]
Sixty five words to sum up a project idea
The WeMedia PitchIt final have asked me for a 65-word pitch. How does this look? Policybrief aims to help the civic conversation around policy to compete with the often-deafening political debate. We’re building an attractive useable open source web facility to make this happen. It will enable professional producers and users of high-quality policy-related content [...]
