Personal Projects

Feet on the Overground
A Tumblr photo-blog I started in 2011 dedicated to the wonders of looking down on a train line in London. The blog has it’s own Twitter account if you’d like to keep up with things that way.

Feet on the Overground had a little outing to The Story conference back in February. The result: The Sole of The Story 2011 – a day of asking attendees if I could take a photo of their shoes. Responses to such requests varied from delight to puzzlement. However, I got to hear a lovely array of personal stories all of which I documented with photographs of their shoes.

Barefoot into Cyberspace
I’m currently working with friend Becky Hogge to publish her book Barefoot into Cyberspace. The book looks at a year in the life of Wikileaks from Chaos Computer Club in 2009 to Chaos Computer Club in 2010, and examines the influencing cultures and philosophies that led to its formation and the way it operates. You can read Chapter Three of her book here.

TechnoJam
An accidental competition that happened briefly on Twitter one Friday afternoon to entertain and be entertained. Archived for posterity on ChirpStory.

Digital Mission to Washington DC – 2011
Working in partnership with Chinwag, BrightLemon and FutureGov to organise taking a group of companies from the UK on a Digital Mission to Washington DC. The missions support UK digital companies to expand internationally, understand foreign markets, attract investment, find partners and develop business relationships.

UK 2010 General Election Pop-Up News Room
In partnership with the Online News Association UK, Kings Cross Hub and the New Economics Foundation I ran a pop-up news room for the General Election 2010 night. The event gathered over fifteen journalists and anyone else who wanted to join us at the Hub, as well as connecting in correspondents across the country – at counts, at home or notably voters unable to vote. During the evening we broke two stories that both made it to national newspapers and television and much fun was had by all involved.

Digital Britain Unconferences organiser and editor – 2009
The Digital Britain Unconferences were a series of UK-wide, volunteer-organised events quickly set up in reaction to the British Library hosted Digital Britain Summit on April 17th 2009. Their aim was to produce a representative ‘grassroots response’ to the interim report and gather set of positive, realistic contributions for consideration in to the government’s final report.

By the May 13th, twelve unconferences had taken place from Glasgow in the north to Truro in the south west. All attendees were encouraged to read the Interim Report and the level of engagement and serious thinking across each event was exemplary. The events included a virtual discussion focusing on rural issues related to Digital Britain and a family unconference held in Tutbury, Derbyshire, as well as large events of over 50 people in London and Manchester.
Summary and the full report