Beach (plant) Life
One of my favourite features of Shoreham Beach is its plant life. As barren as it looks in winter, come the spring it burts into a riot of colour and life. I missed the best of it this year, but I thought even the fading beauty of early summer was worth recording:
[vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26971752](http://www.vimeo.com/26971752) w=550&h=309]
Dealing with gang social media culture…
So this is the challenge to RSA Fellows: As well as wanting to use Fellowship as a way of making the world a better place, you are innovative and many of you experts in social media. How about a group of Fellows putting together a Catalyst bid for seed funding to develop a social enterprise addressing this issue and offering services to local and police authorities? Such a bid could seek to engage the support and skills of staff in our John Adam Street Projects team who are expert in social network mapping.
via www.matthewtaylorsblog.com
I'm a Fellow. I know a thing or two about social media. It's a great idea for a project.
Do I have time…?
Hmm.
Capturing a Summer's moment by the Thames
I'm having one of those days, looking forward to a free hour or so, sandwiched between a day's working on a report for work, and an evening raiding with my Warcraft guild.
However, I grabbed a little time over lunch to edit and upload a little video I shot while walking along the Thames on Friday evening, on the way to meeting friends in a pub. It was a glorious, sunny, summer's evening, and it felt just wonderful to be meandering along the river amongst the rush of Friday night humanity. Here's my attempt to capture it:
[vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26864855](http://www.vimeo.com/26864855) w=500&h=281]
I'm really enjoying creating these little "video photographs" of an experience, a moment in time, even if no-one else cares. :)
Should a Snow Lion be preferable...
There are also a couple of changes that long time OS X users might find irksome: no indication of what apps are running in the Dock, and "natural" scrolling.
Noted here for my own reference if these two things drive me crazy.
Lion's Roar…
When a new iteration of an operating system releases, the wise and prudent thing would be to wait and see what happens when other people install it.
I appear to have misplaced my wisdom and prudence. ;-)
Piegate: the people who rise
I'm quietly fascinated by this "piegate" animated Gif of the attack on Rupert Murdoch yesterday:
Mostly, I'm fascinated about the fact that the only two people who rise to their feet on the "inquisition" side of the room are both women - I'd be fascinated to know if that's just conincidence, or if there's some difference in the psychology of men and women that cause the different reaction.
