Posted in File under Personal, Making & building on Nov 28th, 2011
I called this blog Sawdust because the stuff I write about is intellectual sawdust from the sawmill that is my career in marketing communications. I post here anecdotes and opinions that feel more at home on my own blog than that of my current employer. However, until today, the header image had been a shot, [...]
Posted in Making & building, Technology on Sep 22nd, 2011
Actually make that time lapse photography with Instalapse, Hipstacase, Gorillapod, a large Velux window, a 30m extension cable and several volumes of the 1955 edition Chambers’s Encyclopedia. Instalapse first. Instalapse is an iPhone app that makes time lapse photography pretty darn easy actually. You set the interval between shots, set the number of shots (the [...]
Posted in Ideas, Making & building, Social media, Technology on Jun 25th, 2011
Crowdlistr is a simple, smart idea that adds value to Twitter users who are interested in community. It allows you to open your Twitter lists such that, rather than self-curating, other users can add themselves. It facilitates a crowd-sourced approach to creating a Twitter list. You create a list in Twitter, then sign into Crowdlistr [...]
Posted in Corporate culture, Food for thought, Making & building on Jun 22nd, 2011
Process increasingly gets in the way of problem solving. Thus spake John Willshire, Chief Innovation Officer at PHD, at last night’s excellent Firestarters event. The event was generously hosted by Google and masterfully curated by Neil Perkin. John will no doubt post his slides in due course, and I’ll link to them from here when [...]
Posted in Ideas, Making & building on Apr 13th, 2011
My daughter built a helicopter yesterday. Her sisters were variously texting, Facebooking, Wii-ing, watching crap TV, bickering and begrudgingly walking the dog. But she, aged six, took it upon herself to turn a cereal packet and some yogurt pots into a VTOL plaything. She decided to build shit. As in #buildshit. I was presented with [...]