It’s International Ruminators Day
Actually it’s International Women’s Day and I’ve been brooding about what kind of international day would improve my own career prospects because one of the features of international women’s day is a new website - where women want to work. The site is sponsored by a variety of global employers such as Google and Canon. […]
Changing Politicians
A headline that could be mis-read I know. In this corner of the planet the annual blog awards are over and my abiding impression is we are no nearer having an impact on the behaviour of politicians. In fact everywhere I look the political party as an institution is divorced from majority opinions but nonetheless […]
Environmental or Just Plain Stupid
Watched the environment Minister last night trying to defend the Government’s record on the environment - not only not reaching Kyoto reductions but actually increasing emissions. There’s an interesting debate about to start about global warming. More of the “it really ain’t happening” stuff. But I think the increase in skin cancers, the end of […]
An Unnerving Authority
I remembered at last what it was about John Lennon and day-to-day problems, tribulations and general sourness that I’d meant to write about. It was at John Lennon Airport (motto Above us only sky - and I’m sure he would have added “not even a jot of ozone”) and I wonder if the great one […]
Auction Culture
I’m working on an article about how auctions have changed the way we relate to products. I found this somewhere on the web - wish I could remember where but it seemed pertinent without going far enough. Auctions work when the local information economy works. Without good information, you have lousy auctions. The fact that […]
Here Come Ole Flat Top
Why does John Lennon accompany every tribulation in my life? I love the old flat top line. He come grooving up slowly. He one holy roller. He got hair down to his knees. They don’t write them like that any more. In fact my oldest son still at home was telling me a day or […]
Irish Politics
When I think about politics it tends not to have a nationality. I guess a lot of baby boomers are like me. Politics was a set of ideas that evolved through a debating process that was mysteriously global in an era when we only had books to use as transmitters. No internet, no IM, […]
And Another Thing
I got myself tied up in a debate over at Sarah Carey’s blog a few days back. Subject: should Gillian McKeith be allowed to sell snake oil. McKeith has a mix of legitimate and hooey ideas about how to be healthy through diet and supplements and she’s been under sustained attack from Guardian writer […]
On Holiday: Still, Time to Gripe
We came up to south Donegal for a bit of a break but the drive took six and a half hours so we were….broken, dishevelled, wrecks. Surprise surprise the sun was shining this morning and everything suddenly looked and felt better. It’s one of the miracles of Ireland.
Time for reflecting a little. A couple of […]
Don’t Discuss Technology
Gearing up for another Convergence Culture column, this time for March and it is on how artists are responding to mixed realities, I got talking with Nathaniel Stern, a US artist now doing a PhD at Trinity.
Though the subject of our discussion was supposed to be art we got onto technology and I referenced […]