More than 105 start-ups and established brands such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Songkick and Mind Candy are joining 105 start-ups in London’s Shoreditch to offer 800 jobs to the brightest of UK talent. They will get together over the weekend of May 26/27th 2012 where 3,000 potential applicants will be introduced to a number of [...]
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The 1992 vision of Mondo 2000 was right and wrong, but also true
I picked up my copy of Mondo 2000 – User’s guide to a new edge (Thames and Hudson 1992) the other day. What an optimistic and anarchic place the soon-to-be digital world was then, and indeed for the next few years. Fax machines were vogue, mobile phones were still big and barely anyone was using [...]
Public sector, private sector = non-digital, digital
It’s been an interesting week and it’s going to be more interesting, but I would suggest that I’m not alone when I say that I couldn’t give a shit about anything until Christmas is over. Sod the credit crunch, damn the strikes and bollocks to the revolution, just let me open my Advent Calendar in [...]
What happens in a Swedish digital prison, stays in a Swedish prison
I think I’m going to explode. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, I can’t see, I can’t hear, my head is busted, stomach cracked, feet splintered, I am bald, naked… lucky to be alive though. That’s where so-called modern travelling gets you. Two weeks ago it was Ghana for a long weekend, then up at 5am to [...]
Smartphone killed the video camera star
Earlier this week I did something I haven’t done for around three years and for the salacious among you I am talking about cameras and not anything else, you filthy-minded creatures. Yes, I used a camera. Not an old Olympus SR or a wonderful Leica, but just a bog-standard digital camera as we lit the [...]
