A month passes. Two weeks in Canada – Vancouver and the Rockies (the photo is of Lake Louise). Hosting a conference – “Let’s Talk Research 4: Building Community”. Developing a new team-to-team approach called “Looking for the Common Ground”. Hosting a weekend of buddhist teachings with Venerable Mary Reavey looking at “Own your own death”. … Read more
This is a guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson. I’ve been talking to Su about blogging and kept asking why she didn’t blog. This is the result of my gently nagging for a guest post. Perhaps there will be more, and just perhaps Su will start her own blog soon. You can find out more about … Read more
In the next few weeks my working patterns will change significantly. I am seeing this as an amazing opportunity to free up time to write more. This blog has been really quiet for the last few months as a lot of my energy has gone into getting into the space for this to happen. There … Read more
A while ago I read ‘Linchpin’ by Seth Godin – a brilliant book. I’ve read a few of his books now – I also liked ‘Poke the Box’ which was part of a new publishing project which he ran throughout last year in partnership with Amazon. He is always pushing the boundaries and getting his … Read more
Earlier today this weblog received its 10,000th visitor. That is cause for a small celebration – OK, only for a minute. This happens at a time when things have been incredibly quiet here. Well, that will change soon. I am in the middle of plans to overhaul this site. At the moment it is a … Read more
I’m away at a two-day conference at the University of Hertfordshire. This is the first time I have spent the night in a university hall of residence room since I was a student 25 years ago! Things have changed. The campus itself is comprised of a cluster of spectacular statements and feats of architecture. The … Read more
OK, so I’m probably one of a million people (slight exaggeration) to write about the new blogger beta. A lot of changes are promised in this beta phase. I was offered sign up earlier today, so accepted. I haven’t made any changes yet. But you can expect a combination of changes and mistakes over the … Read more
…two months pass. And then… a short posting. As if nothing had happened! And the transmissions begin again, from here. Listening to Robert Fripp, and wondering whether the deep and mysterious messages which are so elusive in Gurdjieff’s work are the reason that the ‘work’ is so resonant, so meaningful and so prolific.
Just a thought in passing really. It’s so easy to assume that everyone knows what an RSS feed is and how to read blogs through a feed aggregator. It sounds mind-boggling. But essentially we are talking about a web-based service which captures updates to a blog and tells you when they are there for you … Read more
There is an interesting tension building on the internet between the whole principle that anyone who blogs or podcasts might want to get to the situation where they can monetise what they do (an Americanism for “Make Money out of!”) – and the concept that the web is the means by which to provide vast … Read more