The Eye of the Twitterstorm – xHuming Joseph Priestley
I’ll write up the xHumed talk asap, Joseph Priestley sending this Tweet: It is my conclusion that until they can be made safe the bi-cycle must be banned from the streetsRead More…
All posts by Jon Bounds
Twitter Hours, the Cargo Cults of online networking.
For a thing, I’ve been investigating some Twitter communities I wouldn’t usually go anywhere near. Most due to lack of interest but one sort due to a distaste of a lot ofRead More…
TED for the Dead
Is how my brain processes xHumed, at which I’m appearing on Nov 5th in Brum. Tickets available now.
A quick city guide to Birmingham, in The Guardian
The best jokes never make it past the subs, but here's a thing I wrote for the Guardian recently. [link]
By and about
There was a piece featuring me and the sale of BiNS on the BBC News site last week. As ever with ‘news’ I felt the interesting stuff didn’t make it to theRead More…
Why I’m giving up Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
At some point over the weekend, I decided to out the low level moving on campaign and put my most famous website up for sale on eBay. I started the site backRead More…
The worst captain in the World
I was on Danny Baker’s Radio Five show earlier, which was great. I’ve always been a big fan of his and consider him to be one of the few genuinely innovative andRead More…
Photosynth Panoramas
I really like the Photosynth iPhone app for creating panoramas, it’s a painless process and can be done quite quickly. Of course moving people, or dogs, can create an odd effect. ThisRead More…
Improving the happiness index
After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from theRead More…
Open government, data and transparency
While working on Siôn Simon’s push for there to be a directly elected Mayor for Birmingham I contributed an ideas paper around the possibilities for a more open system of government inRead More…