UnConference? How About McConference in Edinburgh… For Hogmanay.

“The same people speaking at a conference [in the same country], bitched about by the same people.” That would probably be the outsider’s view on the little ripple going around the Blogosphere from the pebbles started by the Supernova Conference Guest List (see here, here and here for starters), and Marc Canter’s declaration of ‘to [...]

The Web 2.0 Definition

Everyone seems to be going for these cute little pics of Web 2.0, so after discussions with Lance Anderson (who I stayed with in March on my USA trip) I present the definition of Web 2.0 that I use.

Put simply, if your application can run happily on a PC with a 56K dial up, it’s [...]

Some Numbers For Your Consideration…

We’ve blogged before about the disastrous National Programme for Information Technology (see here). NPfIT is the NHS plan to centralise all patient record keeping on yet another Big Brother style supercomputer. Originally budgeted at £2.3bn, it’s now reckoned likely to cost up to £50bn, and it’s the largest civilian IT programme in the entire history [...]

The Mellow Monday Show Debuts on The Podcast Network

Mark Hunter’s Mellow Monday Show, announced here last week, has had its first show put into the rss feed today. It’s very much a counterpoint show to the power chords and crashing anthems of TPN Rock.

Why is this show important, apart from the fact that it’s a great genre, and everyone needs a gentle lift [...]

New England Podcasters “Swap Show Hosting Duties” for April Fools Day

Eternal prankster that he apepars to be, CC Chapman writes “I had a lot of fun this past week in preperation for April Fools Day. Some of the New England Podcasters decided that it would be fun to host each others podcasts. It was a lot of fun.”
Damm, I wish we had thought of that. [...]

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