My CD collection sits dusty and idle. It’s been lost beneath the immediate pleasures of iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, BitTorrent and my sainted iPhone. I haven’t played a single one of those CDs since I moved into my apartment nearly two years ago. A few weeks ago it crossed my mind to sell them – but [...]

My latest article for Silicon.com.
There’s a new type of tech geek emerging. They have proved their mettle in collaborative ‘hackspaces’, display a tenacious commitment to innovation and, if the business world is ready to open up, they may soon be solving the weightiest challenges of corporate IT.
Read the whole piece here.

I count myself very lucky to work at The Hub Kings Cross in London. Amongst the many wonders of the place are the regular art installations. One of those was ‘Circumrotation’ by Andrew Pok. They cut it down today, but I just about caught it in this film earlier in the week. The quality isn’t [...]

I was on the judging panel for the Silicon Agenda Setters 2009 award. We met as a judging panel a few weeks ago, each bringing a long list of nominees, and debating it through. It was all quite fun and I really enjoyed meeting the other panelists (none of whom I’d met before).
Sadly, Steve Jobs [...]