January 5th, 2007
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Alcantarilha village church, Portugal, originally uploaded by ndixon.
Aww, shucks, I’ve had to upgrade to a flickr pro account in order to have more image sets and organise things properly. I’ve been fascinated with stitched panorama [...]
December 19th, 2006
Big internet/mail order company + order is late on delivery + it’s the week leading up to Christmas = get a cuppa, this Customer Service call is going to take a while.
Amazon’s Customer Service number is tough to find. I couldn’t see it immediately so it took jEN’s honed search skills tolocate, tucked away on [...]
December 15th, 2006
John Buckley over at Citizen Scoop has spent a big chunk of energy gathering audio comments from a whole bunch of BritCaster forum users as a tribute and sendoff to the first UK podcasting community forum. Nice one John. If you’ve got an hour to spare (yes, an hour!) then get over to Citizen Scoop [...]
December 7th, 2006
Everywhere I look these days it is reported that primary reason we decided to close the BritCaster forums is lack of time. This is actually a minor part of the real picture and the one element we could have easily overcome. The others were insurmountable.
Time is precious
Community forums - despite ‘community’ not being part [...]
December 6th, 2006
Pacific Coast Hellway is up for grabs - at least for a day.
Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, producer and host of Pacific Coast Hellway, is doing this for the DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION, a charity set up to provide financial and emotional help to the families of children needing organ transplants. What a superb way to raise money, [...]
October 21st, 2006
I’m serious - sounds incredible, but apparently, it is possible. jEN and I both picked this up from Steve Pavlina’s blog roughly the same time: PhotoReading - How to Triple Your Reading Speed.
Steve’s blog is focused around self development and where we also earned about Polyphasic Sleep - an experiment we considered but did not [...]
September 8th, 2006
There are very few people in the world who a take an instinctive dislike to - I’m talking on a deep level here, not superficial. In the process of exploring the psychology behind one such instinctive reaction - people are fascinating, good or bad - I discovered a great deal about myself.
A few years ago [...]
June 25th, 2006
I finally managed to squeeze a post out back on the much neglected Audacious Communications blog
This one is about our relationships with our email inboxes, the difficulty in persuading email users to switch to RSS, and some of the pitfalls slowing this new technology’s acceptance as a commercial communications tool.
