IBM IMPACT 2009 photos
Photos I’m taking at IMPACT 2009 are up on Flickr – this slideshow should auto-update as more are added, since it selects from the tagged images in my account. I’m taking snapshots using my compact...
View ArticleIf my content is my CV – where’s my content?
I’ve frequently told folks who come to my presentations that “my content is my CV”. Sometimes, that content can feel a bit dispersed, especially given my habit of playing with a lot of the new services...
View ArticleJournalism, attribution and Creative Commons
The Daily Mail posted a story on their website about my friend Andy Stanford-Clark, and used a crop from one of my photos to illustrate it. As it happens, I would have been perfectly happy for them to...
View ArticleUpdate: Creative Commons issue resolutions
Rather than appending to my previous post I thought I’d add this update as a separate entry. Following my discovery that the Daily Mail had used one of my images without permission, a number of threads...
View ArticleThere, and back again
Things have been quiet as I took nearly a month off(line) over the Christmas and New Year periods. It was well worth getting away from it all. Hong Kong was amazing and vibrant. Bali was beautiful,...
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Going 28mm – new glass
I briefly twitter’ed last week that I’d got my hands on a Canon EOS 28mm f/2.8 prime lens. I won it on ebay, and as well as being in great condition and working out cheaper than retail, it came with a...
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Life in miniature
On a whim, yesterday we decided to visit one of the BBC website’s 20 hidden tourist attractions, namely Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield. It turned out to be only about a 40 minute drive away,...
View ArticleMOO Notecards
The awesome MOO have moved on from their wildly successful Minicards to produce Notecards – 10cm square cards which you can post, and which stand up with a little folding flap to one side. I just...
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Playing around with Skitch
I’m sat in Edinburgh airport and thought I’d have a play with Skitch. Skitch is a new screenshot / drawing tool for OS X. It is currently in closed beta. The application is by plasq.com, the makers of...
View ArticleInteresting events this week
A couple of events in London that look good: 24 Hours of Flickr, tonight at Tate Britain Science in Virtual Worlds, tomorrow night at the Apple Store on Regent Street Technorati Tags: events, Flickr,...
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24 hours of Flickr in London
Ola and I went along to Tate Britain last night for the London leg of the 24 hours of Flickr tour. I’d heard about it from Upcoming, via the Flickr group, and thanks to Heather Champ reminding HackDay...
View ArticleFlickr tagging – it’s not bad, it’s cool
I’m gradually working my way through the ~5000 photos from HackDay in London on Flickr, to see if there’s anything interesting that I’d missed. So far I’ve found a number of pictures of our team’s hack...
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Moo – the party
Last night I went up to Exmouth Market in London for the launch of the new StickerBooks by Moo. An excellent party. I think it was Suw who commented that they promised us a “hot and sticky” party, and...
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Where have I been?
Have I been a bit quiet? That’s because I’ve been here: And enjoying sights like these: And also spending time with our nephew: More photos on Flickr, as usual. Last week I did about 1000km of driving...
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Frosted
Frosted Originally uploaded by andyp uk This photo was taken around about this time two years ago, one from my archive… and it was certainly cold enough over the weekend that I could have gone out and...
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Glare
It has been a lovely weekend for walking in the sunshine. Yesterday we went to one of our favourite haunts, Virginia Water. It was mid-afternoon and the sun was pretty bright, so I thought I’d try...
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On Flickr and Video
I just renewed my Flickr Pro subscription and spotted that Flickr has introduced the ability to upload video. In some quarters there has been uproar. I was thinking about this. It doesn’t make sense in...
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IBM Hackday 5
I just uploaded a small set of images from the local Hackday event at IBM Hursley to Flickr. Feel free to add tags or notes if you took part.
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Gadgets part 3: Eye-Fi
Here’s something I’ve wanted to get my hands on for a while now… an Eye-Fi SD card. If you don’t know about these things, essentially they are standard 2Gb SD cards that fit into any camera that will...
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Photos I’m particularly happy with
Taken whilst in London for the Thames Festival a couple of weeks ago.
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