Man, Scoble worries me about our 1,000 person conference we’re running in April. Then again, we’ll need about £1,000 spend per head to make it zing - a cool £1m to you and me. We’re not being so creamed on refreshments in the same way, and we have a great load of sponsors to take the weight off. And I do hope we avoid doing any of this.
Archive for January, 2006
Use a thing called Hamachi to secure your VNC setup. My home VNC only works from my work address, so I’m pretty secure, but this looks like a good option.
Some good, but less god-like tips on recruitment from Guy Kawasaki. I whole-heartedly agree with getting people who are better than you. (Yes, there are some out there, in response to your not quite stated question).
Update: linked tips on how not to mess up your CV.
The Sullivan nod is genius. I’m going to try it.
Give it a try - so long as you are validated genuine Windows! The promise of RSS consumption and tabs is a nice one, but I’m loving Performancing on Firefox, so it will be a big, big job to convince me to change back.
I absolutely agree. Use constraint to help you think about where innovation may lie. It’s one of the biggest challenges to government (certainly in the UK). There are so many initiatives with badly-drawn and / or conflicting delivery targets that the will to innovate disappears.
Philips Chief Technology Officer for Electronics has some interesting comments around innovations:
if you begin to look more recently, then you begin to see a mix of innovations, which are technology innovations with innovations that are much consumer centric, or consumer-driven innovations, utilizing in some cases a very innovative technology
Private Information Retrieval asks an interesting (to me) question:
Can you make queries from a database without the database knowing what you want ?
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The answer is, of couse, that you can, but you have to be clever about it. This has a strong bearing on how Google and the like store our personal information (which an IP address is pretty well equivalent to). Related question: do most citizens notice the loss of privacy due to CCTVs? Question: do they notice the benefit when they need them?
Very interesting web-based debating tool. More than just a poll and already some strange political and gender biases on view.
The Post Office is now 118 855 - that’s a sensible place for a semi-public sector organisation to go.
Who needs antivirus on a Mac? Some people do.
Neat trick - I’ll never get it to work.
More Guy on running a business. Rathole goal avoidance is an important concept to grasp.
FeedLounge looks interesting, but anything that calls itself premium gets my hackles a little. A bit like Clarkson on beverage.
Some very useful links to blogs about analysis and analytics. The dashboard ones, especially, are interesting right now.
Good news to get the Digital Challenge in the Guardian. Interesting that Gus O’Donnell is really going to shake up the civil service (and which will the first three departments be?). Maybe one might be ODPM, given its recent drubbing in the press. Intellect, who are a facet around the Shared Services work we are doing have also been drubbed.
Neighbours From Hell in Britain is what it says on the tin: a rational look at dealing with neighbour problems. I don’t have any at present, so it isn’t necessary now. However, who knows for the future?
Our e-Democracy benefits guide is announced, if not available quite yet. A fun project to be involved in and a good result in the end, I think.
McDonalds lets families share job. It is a neat idea, but I guess it depersonalises the work relationship even more, as managers won’t know who is coming in, only that someone is.
