I love the fact that “good meeting” is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying “er”. We can see it as an example of one of the ways we just keep the conversation going. Perhaps we could even go… Continue reading Some thoughts on good meetings
Author: Jon Hickman
Hi, I'm Jon. I teach and research digital culture, social media and new media practice at Birmingham City University.
Find out more about me with this lovely CV:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jonhickman
Find out about my work at the Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research:
http://interactivecultures.org
Brum TwitPic Chain (#brumchain)
This game is based on Flickr Chains (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/groups/thelondonchain/): a chain of photos linked by themes (and probably memes knowing you lot). To keep it simple, let’s try a chain where we nominate the next person in the chain. How to play If you receive an @ message on Twitter tagged #brumchain, then here’s what you need… Continue reading Brum TwitPic Chain (#brumchain)
How to NOT play @cluedo
It’s not the first time in my life I’ve been accused of breaking twitter, but I was a little surprised when @dubber told me I’d done it again. The nice thing about twitter is that even when being curmudgeonly, people in the community can be helpful. Dubber shared his own way of not playing @cluedo,… Continue reading How to NOT play @cluedo
How to play @cluedo
@cluedo is a twitter based guessing game. The idea is simple: test your powers of deduction and your knowledge of twitter-folks by working out who is running the @cluedo account. To play you simply need to be on twitter and follow http://twitter.com/cluedo Notes for Guessers I’m a game. Read the advice. Follow me, @reply me… Continue reading How to play @cluedo
Done my christmas baking, four weeks late
Ever since I was a baby my Mum has made the most amazing mince pies. They are topped with an almond macaroon type thing, and I have not met a single person who doesn’t think they’re the best thing ever. The last two years we’ve done Christmas up here, so I’ve made my own, but this year… Continue reading Done my christmas baking, four weeks late
a three hour walking tour of Brum, thinking about art, design and creativity in the city
I took two groups of our BA students around Birmingham this week. Our mission: to find where the creative industries hang out, and to think about how design lives and breathes in the real world. We spent three hours and covered a lot of ground. Unfortunately we didn’t get as far as Ikon at Brindley… Continue reading a three hour walking tour of Brum, thinking about art, design and creativity in the city
Jon’s 5-bean chilli
I never made a veg chilli and didn’t have a recipe, but I made this one up as I went along one night and it worked so well I made it again and again and again… Ingredients: Olive oil – a good glug 4 x garlic cloves 2 x medium red onions 2 x stalks of… Continue reading Jon’s 5-bean chilli
Things I learned this weekend:
10 rules of broadband 1. When offering to help family members set up broadband, don’t assume that the previous owner of their new house had a normal telephone set up. 2. Consider the fact that they may have multiple sockets around the house, properly wired by a BT engineer, not just running out of adapters… Continue reading Things I learned this weekend:
What my mate Gary did on his holiday: created a media storm by photographing his own children in a park
Met up with my mate Gary the other day and he told me he’s had an eventful summer. He’s been on TV, and in the national press, plus around the world on the interwebs for taking this picture of his own kids: (for more see: http://is.gd/2Hdr) He used a zoom lens so he was only… Continue reading What my mate Gary did on his holiday: created a media storm by photographing his own children in a park
I think this kind of sums up what we do in the treehouse all day
Found this completely randomly (here: http://paulisakson.tumblr.com/post/29302453/via-photos-c-ak-facebook-com) I can’t even remember what sent me off down that route, but I’m glad I did: it sums up what we do at work all day.