Archive for November, 2007
Barcamp Leeds 2007
The weekend before last I travelled down from Dundee to Barcamp Leeds 2007 with my colleague Rick Moynihan. From the outset Old Broadcasting House, a tastefully refurbished pristine innovation centre, was humming with a sense of energy and anticipation. It didn’t disappoint - with the exception of those who couldn’t […]
BBC Inovation Labs Edinburgh Launch - CJ assimilates Dykian vision of creativity
Last Thursday (November 15th) I went along to the BBC Innovation Labs Launch Day in Edinburgh. I was resigned to a day of polite PowerPoint consumption punctuated by tea, coffee, biscuits, lunch and occasional questions. But that’s not what Matthew Cashmore, Ian Forrester and Frank Boyd had in mind. Yes, there was PowePoint, but […]
A Week of Inspiration (that was last week)
To be entirely honest, not being an enthusiastic meeting hound, I often attend events out of duty rather than desire, coming away from events bored and frustrated: stupified rather than inspired. But last week I had the privilege to attend two genuinely inspirational events: the BBC’s Innovation Labs launch day in […]