By the time you get to see this I will be preparing to journey home from a week in Copenhagen, Denmark. So sit back and enjoy this lovely flash-mob from earlier this year, notice how many people step outside the isolation of their own headphones and join in the experience:
I’ve wanted for some time a place where I can link people to everything that I contribute to.
One of the ways of doing this is to link everything to everything and to post updates in multiple places. This kind of works but is a bit clunky with current capabilities. When I post updates to this blog they are also posted onto Twitter and Facebook, but there are other things that I do that I don’t post either here, or on Twitter or Facebook. But how would anyone know what I do and don’t contribute to?
I’m currently using About.me for the purpose of linking people to the things that I am currently contributing to. At the top level it’s a really simple concept, I like to think of it as an online business card. What I mean by this is that it’s a single page that says something about who I am and gives information on how to get in contact. It doesn’t get a lot of visitors, but it gets enough for me to regard it as important, fortunately it barely takes any housekeeping.
The availability of small, lightweight, water-proof, resilient HD video cameras like the GoPro HD Hero have meant an explosion in first-person videos that take you to places some of us wouldn’t choose to go to:
This one has become a family favourite, the real meaning of a cliff-hanger:
Or perhaps you could load a camera onto a remote-control car and run it around Wal-Mart:
If you are a skier you don’t really want to watch this one though:
An interesting article in the Wall street Journal entitled Doodling for Dollars says:
Put down that smartphone; pick up that crayon.
Employees at a range of businesses are being encouraged by their companies to doodle their ideas and draw diagrams to explain complicated concepts to colleagues.
While whiteboards long have been staples in conference rooms, companies such as Facebook Inc. are incorporating whiteboards, chalkboards and writable glass on all sorts of surfaces to spark creativity.
This is something I have noticed too. People are so distracted by technology these days that they need to be drawn into a meeting before they really engage. The most productive meetings I have are ones where there are a small number of people all contributing to a whiteboard. It’s not possible to be a part-time member of that type of meeting, you’re either in, or you are out.
The most popular posts on this site continue to be ones on Rich Pictures which is a form of doodling to communicate a concept. I regularly walk into meetings with sheets of A3 paper in order to draw out what I think I’m hearing, this often takes the form of a mind-map, but is just as likely to be a spider diagram linking together the conversations.
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