Get blogging!!

On my travels I meet various fabulous people that I encourage to start blogging. At the House of Lords recently I met Leon Clowes. When he told me about what he was about to do, I said "You must start blogging! This is what you do...." Luckily he ...

I met Boris Johnson today

I just happened to see this tweet today and as I was just down the road thought I'd pop along to see what was happening. When I got there Boris was just coming out of Surbiton Cycles and walking towards me and the railway station. I went over and ...

Did Twitter save Bletchley Park?

Last month Simon Greenish former CEO of Bletchley Park, Iain Standen current CEO of Bletchley Park and I gave a talk at the University of York entitled Did Twitter save Bletchley Park? The talk introduced by Prof John Clark gives a good overview o...

Family tree update: Sidney Ambury to Solomon Hamburg

Last night I received this photo of my Dad's Uncle Basil's wedding in around 1943, the little boy at the front is my Dad and his Mum, my grandmother is at the left on the back row. The photo came from Lesley Brown who I've been trying to find for ...

What was HOT at SXSW?

The weather (infrequently), the people (invariably) what with naked cowboys and everything;)) The hottest things for me were the location based networking apps like Glancee and Highlight. Robert Scoble writes more eloquently than I can on the topi...

Sniff the Zeitgeist

The great thing about #SXSW isn't the sessions or the people or the weather or the BBQ or the margaritas, it's the combination of all those things and more. I love coming to #SXSWi because excitement with and love of tech is in the air, you can sm...

Making Research Impact – Guardian Live Chat

I have just spent a very interesting 2 hours live chatting online with some very interesting people about communicating our research. The main points that I put forward were about using social media to get the biggest impact for the amount of time...

Missing man – Rupert Taylor – Please help

Rupert Taylor Found!! I had an update from @Juliancw this morning saying that Rupert was found last night and is now with his family. Thank you *SO* much to everyone who helped get the word out that he was missing. A happy end to the story :)) Sue...