Heaven is not a place guarded by immigration officials interested only in passports and certificates, nor is it the higher class to which we are promoted by passing an examination showing what we have learned in this world. Heaven is this world as it appears to the awakened imagination, and those who try to approach [...]
Categories: Idea
Tagged: Book
A few years ago my friend Stef and I built a website on which people could make wishes, and grant each other’s wishes. I say “we” built a website – in fact, Stef built the website and I provided moral support. We used to do this sort of thing on a semi-regular basis, and it [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve been doing most of my work standing up. Part of that came about because I was starting to get a bit of a sore back. But I had also seen a couple of articles online about the benefits of standing up to work as opposed to sitting down all [...]
Categories: Idea
Tagged: Health, Productivity, Work, writing
I have a new productivity system. Well, actually – it’s a “supplementary” productivity system. I already have a fairly sophisticated productivity system in place, and by most people’s standards, I think I tend to be reasonably efficient. I get a lot done. My email inbox is empty each day. As far as I can tell, [...]
Categories: Idea
Tagged: Productivity
I’ve been talking to people about their dreams and aspirations a lot recently, especially yesterday, when one of the things I did at Unconvention at The Roundhouse in London was a sort of ‘speed networking’ thing, in which people would book 10 minute slots with me (or others, if they preferred), talk about their musical [...]
Tagged: Work
Photo by ajburgess In Britain, there’s an organisation called PRS for Music. They’re a membership organisation of composers and songwriters, and they collect royalties on behalf of those members, whenever music is performed publicly or broadcast. And the PRS has reciprocal arrangements with other collection societies world wide – APRA in Australasia, IMRO in Ireland, [...]
One of the ideas I had during my ’30 days of ideas’ last month was something I called I Made You A Tape – an online service that allowed you to make mixtapes for a single person, with personalised liner notes. Ray Kuyvenhoven, a website developer in British Columbia, took that basic idea and made [...]
nataliedee.com Today’s idea… the last in this series of 30 days of ideas is (wait for it): more ideas. But not just my spare ideas – everyone’s. My idea is for a website where people submit their ideas for others to pick up and run with. And the deal is as it is here: no [...]
This is a rough mockup. Clearly it would be better than this. I don’t know if I’m a typical Last.fm user, but I’m pretty sure I’m using it wrongly, according to what they probably have in mind. For a start, I never, ever use it for listening to music – and nor do I use [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Idea,Music
Tagged: application, Last FM, Music
Photo by brooklyn Today’s idea is about shopping for clothes at thrift stores or charity shops. There’s some great stuff out there, if you know where to look and how to look – and as long as they’ve got something in your size, you can grab a real bargain, construct a unique look that suits [...]
