Stephen Blyth's Blog

I couldn’t resist sharing this clip of Julia Donaldson and her husband singing Happy Birthday to the Gruffalo. A bright spot on a dull winter’s day. The fearsome but loveable Gruffalo turned 10 years old in March. There are monster celebrations at the official website, as well as loads of other fun. Don’t get tempted [...]

The most common question that came up yesterday at a presentation I gave to the Comms2Comms network in Wellington was about how to set up a Facebook presence for a community organisation. There was barely a mention of any other social networks. For good reason. Facebook is nearly always in the top five most visited [...]

Apologies to anyone who turned up at 1pm on Saturday expecting to find a treasure trove. I cancelled the garage give-away I wrote about last week (see “Garage give-away – 1pm 16 May 2009″). Sorry I didn’t have time to put up a notice. My decision hinged on the difficulty of advertising a real world [...]

I’m finding lots of distractions as I try to finish a write-up about the presentation I gave at the Connecting Up 09 conference yesterday. Straight in front of me is this green void – “a digital design drived from nature realized in lightweight frabric using the latest digital fabrication and engineering techniques, creating more with [...]

After a heated discussion about privacy at the Connecting Up conference, I headed off to the Apple Store to get a replacement power adapter. I’d left my one behind on the kitchen bench. When I handed over my credit card to the young salesman he blithely asked if I’d like the receipt emailed to my [...]

So far the move has gone pretty smoothly. Last night everyone was able to find somewhere to sleep in our new place and we’ve all eaten. Most importantly, our cable broadband is installed and working. Much to my relief, things went far smoother than when I tried to switch to TelstraClear last year (see “My [...]