In No Particular Order

My travels with a near 30-year-old camera continue: my tired but still lovely Minolta CLE from 1981-ish.
I had a great time in Paris last month with the camera on my first day, but since then I’ve put a few more films through it. The results have been variable and I have some learnings to share…
1) [...]

It’s been another busy speaking week.
On Wednesday 25th I gave a version of my Epiphenomena and Magic presentation to the folk at the Sense Network. Great venue (loft floor on Wardour Street) and a fun, engaging crowd. Slides from this presentation are the same as for Digital Shorts: see them on Slideshare.
On Thursday evening, 26th, [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – February 25th through February 27th:

www.processaway.net – Credit card processing available on the iPhone… Interesting development.
"We are all retailers".
Not sure about security or my happiness about pin/card harvesting, but conceptually it's a further interesting move for mobile apps and commerce.
The Circle – a simple ToDo System to Get [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – February 6th through February 24th:

Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word – oooh – a tingle of desire.
Not only (yet another) magic digital pen, BUT it now has a Mac desktop client (yay) AND rather tasty leather-bound pads of specialist paper…
Tech, stationery, mmmm
Now, all I need is Pelikan to [...]

Acquisition Manager, E-commerce, House of Fraser, House of Fraser | Econsultancy
A quick heads up for a new role at a client, House of Fraser.
This is a really interesting post in a vital and growing aspect of HOF’s ecommerce activities.
Initial setup of the affiliate and acquisition activities has been done by Chris Bishop, so it’s by [...]

Over the last couple of years I’ve had two concurrent obsessions when it comes to ecommerce: data and online merchandising. The former is the foundation of everything we do and sell online – product data, customer data, metadata, behavioural data… Increasingly, my interest in data has extended to behavioural and attention metadata, as well as [...]

So then, to Brighton, for another outing of my Digital Shorts presentation, arranged by Econsultancy (see events calendar on my business blog).
It was lovely to have an excuse to visit Brighton again, and a quick, chilly wander along the seafront with my new-old Minolta CLE and tack-sharp 28mm Elmarit-M and a roll of Fuji 1600 [...]

I’ve been wondering for a while how to keep my public speaking, training and conference events in one tidy place.
I’m pleased therefore to have come across Kieron O’Shea’s rather lovely Calendar Plug-in for Wordpress.
You can see this up and running at my ‘business’ site’s Speaking and Events page.
There’s also an RSS feed of my upcoming [...]

Last week I presented at Digital Shorts in Manchester. It was a really fun evening with an engaged crowd, good questions and a great set of conversations afterwards. And of course a beer or three catching up with some ex-Littlewoods colleagues afterwards.
The slide deck is available here – looking at how data + open interaction [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 25th through February 5th:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Parking ticket leads to a virus – Combining 'real world' scamming and deception to get people to go online and install a virus.
Nikon F4 resource page – Uber-geekery on the F4. Respect.
Ocado secures £10m Sharia'a financing – Interesting financing [...]

I posted this on Internet Retailing – please do vote if you’re in retail or ecommerce
Vote now! Internet Retailing’s “Inspiration Index”
We’re pleased to launch today our “Inspiration Index“. Speaking with senior etailers we’re struck by the attention they pay to competitor and peer activity, continually seeking new ideas, better ways and cunning angles to improve [...]

Most useful digital marketers to follow on Twitter : Dave Chaffey’s Right Touching Blog
Dave “Dr Dave” Chaffey, esteemed author and guru and author of the Managing Digital Channel report (well, book nearly) , has posted a list of his recommended twitter feeds to follow.
Dave’s criteria (signal to noise ratio) is a good one – I’m [...]

And so it came to pass, yea in the fourth hour of our confinement, that Nectar manage to get into their office and fire off an ‘if you’re snowed in you can still shop online’ email.
Impressive – and with a Valentine’s touch too.