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January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurialism, Music, Web 2.0

So many friends and tutors in the acting – and ‘creative’ – world, being young and on-the-whole inexperienced, have been struggling to find work in the last 6 months. Harry Lloyd, my sort of cousin, is a notable exception.
One of the big frustrations, it seems, is that there is little opportunity to be entrepreneurial. Production, [...]

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Web 2.0 Countries?

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Web 2.0

I presume this observation is old-hat now, but I found the selection of countries that Feed Informer put as the ‘likely guesses’ on their registration form (before listing the rest alphabetically) pretty interesting. I wonder if it was compiled from data?
United StatesUnited KingdomAustraliaCanadaSpainChinaSwedenDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyRussia
Where’s India? – I thought,
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Technorati Tags: Feed Informer, Web 2.0 Countries, India, Connectivity

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Diary vs Blog

July 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0, Writing

Knowing that I was going to an experiment with a blog, I brought a few of my old diaries out with me to The Hamptons. They’re a rag-bag and misleading look at my life – spiking each year in the summer (when I’ve tended to travel) as well as the obligatory January 1st – [...]

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Smart guy

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics (UK), Social Networking, Web 2.0

David Miliband grows and grows in my estimation. First there was the interview with the FT; now, I’ve just come across this speech thanks to David Smith’s blog:
To quote David Smith’s post in full:
In two recent speeches, UK politicians are beginning to show they understand the web. First, George Osborne. And now, David Miliband:
When we [...]

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The awakening of my e-consciousness

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Education, Web 2.0

I have just come across the phenomenal blog belonging to David Smith, a teacher at St. Paul’s. Found here. Just the notion of a Head of English at one school, re-launching himself as Director of ICT at another is a wicked one – especially in the English private school sector. But, more than that, he [...]

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The future

October 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0

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