Find of the month

Just when I thought the world couldn’t get any more bizarre, I found Women Unlimited and my day just took a completely different turn. I realised that media used to treat women and men like this and felt much better about our present day situation, even with Sarah Palin around, because now at least we’re… Continue reading Find of the month

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The insane 48 hours ahead

On Wednesday I’ll be in Berlin for my keynote (yikes!!) at Web2.0 Expo Berlin and on Thursday I’ll be in Amsterdam to speak about hybrid toys at Mediamatic. If anyone is up for drinks, dinner, coffee, whatever…ping me! I love both cities and unfortunately don’t get to spend enough time there, so would be great… Continue reading The insane 48 hours ahead

Thoughts on Conferences

I just came back from the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2008in Seattle which in the end I enjoyed enormously. I say in the end, because at the beginning I didn’t get it. This is only my second American conference and I’m learning that the flavor of these kinds of events is definitely different in… Continue reading Thoughts on Conferences

Crash, Bang, Wooz!

This makes me think that people were right stuffing their savings under their mattress.

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Different internets

One day I will write about Montreal and Québec properly. Not now though. I just came back from a fortnight among family and friends, mostly and rather unsuccessfully trying to stay away from the web. It was interesting though to get a glimpse of other people’s internets. Most of my good friends are not from… Continue reading Different internets

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