Today I was fortunate enough to be able to watch Lawrence Lessig deliver his keynote at the start of day three at NetHui. It’s always a good measure of a speakers popularity to watch the live twitter stream from an event such as this and observe the frequency of tweets about the speaker and the comments they make. If this was the only measure of success I’d say Lessig won hands down pre and post [...]

If you have not yet come across NetHui this week you’re missing a treat. NetHui is described as “a conference that brings together everyone involved with Internet issues in New Zealand. The event is based on the format of multi-stakeholder collaboration successfully introduced by the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF)” Today was the first day of three and the range of topics covered across day one was just phenomenal. While I could not attend the [...]

I reckon we all feel that way late on a Sunday evening. It can either be with a sense of accomplishment after a full weekend knocking off a number of items on that “to do” or with a feeling of disbelief after the hours and days were seemingly frittered away. Yes I know that’s a rather “extreme ends of the spectrum” view to take but with less than 45 mins of the weekend to go [...]

Last night sitting at the dinner table my eight year old daughter asked how my day had been and what I had done during it. Nothing too unusual there except I found myself talking about loading content onto the website I manage, planning for tomorrow when I expect to create some YouTube videos etc. It occurred to me just how different the nature of work is (for me) and how the role and type of [...]