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This is why we need to take back the Cloud

Posted on 25 June 2010 by charlie

Services like Twitter and Facebook have centralized our communications, such that we depend on their skills to keep their part of the network up (let alone, saf...

Science/The Narrative

DIYBio meet-up – Folk Microbiology

Posted on 23 June 2010 by charlie

It was a night of culture – yoghurt cultures. Vaughn Tan shared his passion for yoghurt with about two dozen captivated future yoghurt makers. He spoke ab...

Innovation/Strategy/The Narrative

Take back the graph! Facebook, The Cloud, and a return to the basics of social networking

Posted on 27 May 2010 by charlie

“Take back the graph!” was @mattmiz‘s reply to my rant that The Cloud was shite, Facebook was poison, and that the future will be peer-to-peer...

Strategy/The Narrative

Fed up with platic bags

Posted on 20 April 2010 by charlie

One thing I've noticed here in the US is that there is trash everywhere, collecting in the "unspace", places where there is no movement or wind o...

Science/The Narrative

I’m giving a brown-bag at UMass Amherst on DIYbio and Synthetic Biology on 07apr10

Posted on 02 April 2010 by charlie

I'm going to be out at UMass Amherst visiting my PhD advisor, Craig Martin. He's been so kind to let me do a brown-bag discussion around DIYBio and Sy...

Science/Strategy/The Narrative

Institutional science needs to change

Posted on 05 January 2010 by charlie

I was having lunch with some old ex-lab friends. Unlike me, who left the lab at the end of the 90s, all three of them have kept on doing research and medicine a...

Science/The Narrative

Hacking microscopes – DIYBio meetup 13dec09

Posted on 14 December 2009 by charlie

We had another gathering at The Sprouts. Mac, Jason, Jason, Dave, Kay, and I (with my son) gathered and talked about moving forward with safety stuff (pages, FA...

Philosophy/Science/The Narrative