Author: Tom

  • Swap My Vote

    Idea: swapmyvote.org.uk would allow people who feel their vote may be wasted to swap with someone in another constituency.The idea came this evening when a friend and I were discussing how she really wants to vote Lib Dem and I Green. She lives in Brighton, and I live in Richmond Park. So we agreed we…

  • Open Letter to Susan Kramer, Lib Dem Families Spokesperson

    Dear Susan, Thank you for your response to my previous correspondence. Whilst I can appreciate many of your points I would much appreciate a further response to a number of urgent points. Firstly I would ask that you probe more deeply into the veracity of the report of the 17th March which you cite. The…

  • TV @Anywhere

    Twitter has announced a new method of interaction, which they are calling @anywhere. It will allow us to tweet or follow a new user directly from a participating website – up till now, these have involved using either the API via a third-party application, or visiting the Twitter.com webpage. @Anywhere will use a small amount…

  • The camera and the building; a love story

    via vimeo.com This beautiful film has for its protagonist the camera, and its muse, architecture. If that sounds pretentious, you might not like the film, which seems to have caused a stir for its use of technology, namely Vray and 3dsMax – but it’s the elegance and pace of the shots, the sense of love…

  • Sign it, blog it, link it, work it

    The Digital Britain Unconference final, collated report is up and can be read, signed, linked to, blogged and otherwise enjoyed here. If you approve of the report’s recommendations (collated from over a hundred people’s suggestions), please do consider signing (by leaving your name in the comments). See previous post or the dbuc09 site for background!…

  • Digital Britain Unconferences

    Over the last couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of helping to create a dialogue around the UK government’s Digital Britain report. The story has been better told elsewhere, but essentially, during a meeting of some of the bigger and more established players in the UK media, Bill Thompson tweeted with the idea of…

  • YouTube vs PRS, who wins?

    Everybody wants to be the good guys! No surprises there.. Negotiations on a new deal for YouTube UK to continue to show certain music videos have broken down with the Performing Rights Society, who collect license fees for public ‘performances’ of music (including radio, TV etc) and dish them out to musicians. Interesting to compare…

  • Arcadia I

    The other day I went to Kew Gardens, courtesy of my sister Natasha. It was a cold, wet, rainy day and unusually there were few colourful flowers around – but we had a lovely walk, and came into the Palm House, a beautiful example of pavilion architecture from 1848. Whilst really no expert on them,…

  • Quicksilver/Quıcĸsıɩⅴεʀ

    OK, so I realise that I may be a bit behind the herd here, but I just wanted to share a couple of the tools I’ve been exploring recently that help me get work done at the moment. They’re predominantly Mac based, but please feel free to leave a comment if you have found similar…

  • Lots of press for our Carla film..

    Following on from Sunday’s announcement in the Times about Isis’ film on the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, there has been a fair amount of press in the UK and Ireland (I work for Isis). Perhaps unsurprisingly, the pieces have largely been concerned with Carla’s discussion of her private life, although it might be…