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Posted by curiouscatherine on 10th January 2013 in Personal Reflections, Things I want to write about post PHD | 7 comments
Hello 2013
I usually spend the first week of the New Year hibernating and this year was no different. I like to spend the time at home doing various forms of domestic organisation and getting projects started and ready for the year. This year I have been spending most of the time of the edits of the final version of my thesis as I seem to be nearly ready to submit it (whoop!) which I can hardly believe. In fact I...Open by Default
I find myself using the phrase ‘open by default’ more and more frequently. This post is an attempt to explore what I mean. We use so many of these terms so rather loosely so that they start to lose their meaning – engage, participate, innovate, open – if we want to keep the power in the language we need to drill down and be clear on what the meaning is and why the term is important. With a...my 20 things from #ukgov12
If you pitch 4 sessions you will have a lot to write up We have moved on from last year – more stuff is mainstream and big ideas are being taken seriously. However we now need to focus on building a proper evidence base to stop ourselves running away with ideas that we have not yet proved At some point soon GovCamp will need to reconcile its relationship with ‘the suits’ and accept that it is...
Posted by curiouscatherine on 12th August 2011 in Identity, Personal Reflections, Things I want to write about post PHD | 3 comments
A tale of two networks
I’m not going to try and comment on what has been happening in London and beyond over the last few nights – I don’t feel qualified apart from to express the outrage and sympathy that so many people thankfully share – I do want to add my view though as I think the wider the debate about the causes and solutions the better. The first step to a good solution is a good analysis of the problem –...#ff deficit reduction
I am rubbish at #ff partly because I never get round to it, partly because I never remember on a Friday and partly because I have yet to find an iphone client which makes it easy to pick a list of people (suggestions on this very welcome). Anyway, I read content from some really interesting and talented folks and I wanted to appreciate them properly here so please accept this as a massive #ff catch up....
