Euan Semple has a blog called The Obvious and every now and then he writes something that helps me to articulate stuff that I am thinking about (and grappling with). In his post ‘Why Michael Jackson Smart Mobs made me so Emotonal‘, Euan writes about this video in which Flash Mobs dance to Michael Jackson music. Go and watch it. “Flash mobs start with a few text messages to friends to gather at a public place.  Usually there’s an action planned.  Something simple and direct that would also draw in anyone who just happened to be around.” Euan starts by …

Web enabled phones with cameras and video are becoming ubiquitous and these technologies are driving new behaviours in the way we share information and collaborate with each other. So, armed with my new iPhone 3Gs, I have started My One-Photo-per-Day-Project over at my Posterous Blog. Like my YesAndSpace blog, these photos will tell a story and be my visual journal. Part of my business is to present stuff, so many of these photos will show up in Slideshows that I design. It’s a resource that I and you can use … just take note of my Creative Commons license on …

Re reading the chapters in Presentation Zen and Slide:ology on design and the Rule of Thirds. Viv and I will make use of these pictures in our Insanely Great Slideshow Training me thinks … First a simple picture … And now a noisier version …

A question put to me by my 4 yo son the other day …

Harrison Owen‘s latest book (Wave Rider – Leadership for High Performance in a Self Organising World) has a great title and I, being a novice surfer, was drawn to the title. Here’s some quotes from Chapter 1 … “Wave Riders are curious people possessed of an innate capacity to go with the flow, constantly seizing upon opportunity when others see no possibility, or even disaster. Their level of performance is consistently high, and projects are often completed in breathtakingly short periods of time, with a degree of excellence that may seem unbelievable.” “The times have changed. The anomalous behavior of …