Explaining yourself, without Powerpoint

I spent some of this week running training for young scientists on how to present scientific ideas to non-expert audiences.  This particular piece of training runs regularly, but because the people have different needs each time, and the context is altering, it always feels a little bit different.
One of the main things we try to [...]

There has to be another way – oh, wait, it’s the BBC iplayer…

4OD, Channel 4’s TV-on-demand service has to be a corking example of a service which makes life maximally difficult for its users.  I can only think that Channel 4 actually doesn’t want anyone to use it – the whole process of joining up was a bit like Tesco shopping in 1999.
So: to make 4OD work I [...]

2008 wrap-up

Well. 2008 was very, very busy.    It was a year in which I did a whole lot of stuff that was new to me, working with new people in new industries on new stuff.    This was a marvellous but very exhausting thing.   It was also a year which marked a real shift from the straightforward [...]