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Herding cats at Oxford Geek Night

February 18th, 2010

Last night I gave an updated version of my talk on successful community management, “How to Herd Cats” (slideshare link), at the sixteenth Oxford Geek Night. (Update: Al has posted his video of the talk on Vimeo, thanks Al) It was a particular honour to be asked to give a keynote as it was almost three years to […]

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Welcome Air Vice Marshall

February 15th, 2010

From the British Airways — Exec Club Enrol. Via Simon Willison’s comment on this Flickr post.

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The average middle

February 2nd, 2010

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely. Seth Godin — Who will save us?

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The opposite of open is theirs

January 20th, 2010

The Net as a medium is not for anything in particular — not for making calls, sending videos, etc. It also works at every scale, from one to one to many to many. This makes it highly unusual as a medium. In fact, we generally don’t treat it as a medium but as a world, rich with connections, persistent, […]

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Security theatre

January 2nd, 2010

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we’re doing the terrorists’ job for them.

Bruce Schneier

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