Category Archives: Trends

How to do Great Things

We humans need to be inspired to do Great Things. So why don’t we? Well, ever so occasionally we do, for example:

The Great Wall of China
The Internet
The Slinky.

All of these have one thing in common. They are triumphs of people working towards meaning (except maybe the Slinky). When it comes to the doing Great Things we are capable of incredible action. Continue reading

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How do we Go Green & Make Life better?

It’s been fashionable for a while for us to talk about how we “should” go green.  It’s a little like the smoker saying they “should” stop, and the fatty saying they “should” diet.  What are we really doing to change … Continue reading

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The Social Media Vibe

“The vibe” is something that you either love or hate about twitter, and social media. Like everything that is a trend, from the outside it is downright annoying. Partially because everyone won’t shut up about it. The criticism is that … Continue reading

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Sitting Comfortably?

The Leeds #CozyTweetup just made the big time. CozyTweetup in Leeds – 10th of December Hi. I’m Simon, how are ya? We have a CozyTweetup happening in Leeds, on the 10th of December at 6pm at Boutique Like you the … Continue reading

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Cool R&D

What are the best / coolest Research and Development Departments you can think of? History teaches us a thing or two: Xerox Parc once had one of the best known to man (or pooch). Widely credited with bitmap graphics, the … Continue reading

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New music, New Social Networking, New Cloud?

Yes, I do love the new TI & Justin Timberlake song. The production is stunning, it has strings and hippety hop all in the same song. It’s well done, catchy and has a good message. Still there are a few … Continue reading

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Cloudy

Somethings you don’t forgive somethings you don’t forgetSometimes the fate you suffer is so much worse than deathWe’re way off course now and we’re drifting out to seaSo cut the anchor on your heart to be set free, set free, … Continue reading

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Spirit/Earthy Good… Technology Bad?

The question of whether technology was getting in the way of what it is to be human came up today… and for once it was a jump off point for me. I know its a cliché to start with a … Continue reading

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