Archive | July, 2008

Why London will never be (and should never try to be) like Silicon Valley

I went to a really interesting dinner chat on Wednesday night organised by Saul Klein for Fred Wilson the VC who was over from New York. I left a bit unsatisfied with the story we told Fred about London, so in the bar afterwards and on the bus home I tried to work out why. [...]

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Clay Shirky Demos podcast

So yesterday lunchtime was fun. We had a Packed house at Demos to hear Clay do his thing. I just filled him with coffee and then asked a few questions. You can listen to the whole thing here.

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Me vs Clay Shirky – Monday

Sorry about the short notice, but do come along to hear Clay Shirky talk about his book Here Comes Everybody at Demos on Monday at lunchtime (event starts at 12.30pm). I’ll be playing host and asking him a few tricky questions if I can think of some. I particularly want to ask him about his [...]

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The award-winning School of Everything…

The last award I won was on my friend Ben’s stag weekend. It was for coming last in a clay pigeon shooting competition. It’s on the left in the photo above. I’m a lot prouder of the one on the right which was won by Team Everything, pictured below last week in our friend Charlie’s [...]

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