May 22, 2012 |
Photo by Tomas Whitehouse
I travel a lot, and I do a lot of public speaking. Mostly about Music in the Digital Age, but also about other things – from creative enterprise to time management, the music industry to radio. Whisky too, on occasion.
I’m NOT going to be travelling in June, for various reasons – mostly to do with my passport being away at the cleaner’s. But that doesn’t mean you can’t book me for an event of some kind.
In fact, it might mean that you will be able to, where ordinarily I might not have been available – or getting me to your thing might not have been cost-effective.
Since I’m not going to be moving around and speaking at music industry events and academic conferences or doing any guest lecturing for the whole month, I thought it would be nice to do a June-only thing, where I’ll offer to present at any kind of conference, event, get-together, class or just to you personally – and I’ll do it from my home, via Skype… for a flat fee of £100.
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Jul 17, 2008 |
Hard at work
Professor Tim Wall and I quite often write together. Usually, I’ll go to his house – a good hour’s journey on two buses, plus waiting and walking. All up, 3 hours commuting, interspersed with cups of coffee, long and interesting chats about lofty-minded things, and short bursts of typing.
Working that way, we tend to get at best about 4 hours of actual writing done in a day, what with a break for lunch and everything.
We’re working on something together at the moment, so this time I suggested that rather than sit in the same room together, we use Skype video, document sharing and various other bits of online trickery, and see if we can’t get some work done that way.
Apart from some wireless router glitching I’m experiencing, it worked absolutely brilliantly. We were able to work together just as well, I got to have a bit of a lie-in, we could see each other while we worked (normally, facing our respective computers means we are in the same room together, but not face to face) and in some respects, it was a better experience all round.
My plan is to roll this out more generally so that I never have to go to work.
