Author: imran
Think and a Drink
Last Thursday I was invited by Gareth Rushgrove to speak on a panel at Codeworks’ Think and a Drink event in Newcastle. Each month Codeworks orients the evening around a theme of interest for the (paying) audience…this month, the focus was on Web 2.0 & Business with a pair of talks from Gareth Rushgrove and…
Tweetstats
Twitterstats is a useful find from Fred Wilson, via Carl at Ensembli; enabling a Twitter user to visualise the usage patterns, simply by entering their screenname. So what do the stats tell me about my own use… May, October and January appear to be my peak usage months; not much to be inferred here other…
OpenCoffee Leeds {February}
I don’t get it. When I promote OpenCoffee we get a smaller turnout than when I don’t…fortunately, I didn’t this month and we had a buzzing and vibrant mood with over thirty people dropping in thoughout the course of the morning! I guess it was a Super Duper Tuesday 😉 Some of the highlights included……
You Go Girl!
Maz, Linda and I started talking about a Leeds chapter of Sara Sarah Blow‘s Girl Geek Dinner a few months ago as a response to the modest turnout of women at tech/geek meetups in Yorkshire. We’d planned to shoot for January, then February filled up, so we figured March. But we’ve been beaten by Valerie…
Going Solo
Stephanie Booth was the first person I met exclusively through Twitter. Steph met my friend Ian at a conference last year, she mentioned her grandmother was from Leeds and Ian suggested we meet next time she came to visit her family from Switzerland. As a prolific blogger, and someone with an emotional bond with Leeds,…
Leeds City Centre Vision Conference 2008
Last Thursday I braved the howling winds and driving rain to attend the 2008 edition of the Leeds City Centre Vision Conference, at the invitation of the city’s Chief Economic Services Officer, Paul Stephens. Upon entering the main hall, I felt immediately out of place as the only person not wearing a suit – though…
Y: The Last Man
Like many late 80s geek teenagers I was consumed by adult comics and graphic novels such as The Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta and Watchmen; many of which have been recently re-released as gorgeous hardcover ‘Absolute’ editions by DC’s Vertigo label. I missed out on many of the long running series at Vertigo, with…
OpenCoffee {January}
Wow, I’ve been lazy…real lazy. It’s three weeks since the first OpenCoffee Leeds meetup of 2008 back on 8th January and I’m just getting around to a round up of that morning’s events… Trina Garnett of All About Joe and I have been talking on and off for a few months, but this month we…
(Dot)Northern Snippets
In the run up to the launch of dot:north, here’re a few more events and snippets from across the country’s favorite compass direction… The next few months sees a pile up of BarCamps across the North of England and Scotland too with definite plans now announced for BarCamp in Edinburgh and Manchester and planning starting…
Crudy Giuliani…
…is ‘Ready‘. A hateful, cynical and manipulative movie trailer (‘…a people perverted’?) or a political ad from a candidate who could only get a 6% election erection?