Month: May 2014
Has Edward Snowden changed privacy forever?
This week I attended the brilliant Thinking Digital in Newcastle. The conference had some truly world class speakers and some awe inspiring presentations from building a home on the Moon through to solving virus outbreaks across the planet. It is great to see how technology is being used to better the world rather than just to simply market stuff. Some of the products and ideas were staggering and there was also some fine piano playing from a promising young talent. The section that really made me think though was the final panel discussion. The panel consisted of The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss, Meri ... Read more
Video of the week – Wrecking Ball Parody
This week I was up in Newcastle attending Thinking Digital a cracking digital conference/experience “for those who have a desire to learn”. The diversity of speakers and topics were fantastic from the Chief Information Office of the HMRC right through to Jonathan O’Halloran who is striving to develop a hand held device that decodes pathogens in 20 mins rather than in several weeks. Jonathan’s session made me feel that there are people out there striving to make a difference in the digital world and I found it very inspiring. His plan is to create a device that can end epidemics and pandemics ... Read more
If you encourage your kids to do sports are you being a pushy parent?
I know I don’t ever really cover being a parent on the blog but I wanted your collective advice on something so bear with me on this. My little boy Jacob is six and this year he took up football. This wasn’t because I asked him too it was because some of his friends were doing it and he wanted to start playing regularly. Now I was terrible at football and if I am honest I never went to any football training and the the first I experienced it was at high school. So when I took him to this ... Read more
The top 100 property Twitter users in the UK
This piece of work caught my eye today, Zoopla the property search site has produced its Property Power 100 which is a list of the top 100 estate agents in the UK. I think is a fairly nice piece of work – rather simple but smart. The reason for creating a Twitter list like this is very simple, links, but this is how the brand describe it: What is it? A leaderboard for UK Estate Agents in Social Media as scored by Klout. How are the scores calculated? Initially via Klout, though we’ll be pulling more sources and signals over ... Read more