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Things I might write about at some point, but not now

Being a list of things which I’ve been meaning to write about here or elsewhere, but haven’t had a moment.

  • New forms of storytelling
  • The rise of the renaissance journalist
  • Hotel life
  • Why I don’t write much about work here
  • Flickr video
  • Personality blogs and the cult of the meme (pron: Me! Me!)
  • On returning to Canada
  • Agile development - the business/product owner’s perspective
  • Being hobbled by technology
  • Some new commandments for polite living
  • Team operating agreements

Hopefully, by putting these out here in public I will be shamed into actually finishing one of these posts (currently on draft). Please feel entirely free to hassle me in the comments into actually completing one or any of these. It might just work.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of someone examining Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth at the Tate Modern.

Don't fall in

Sometimes we all feel like we’re in danger of falling into a hole in the ground.

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18 Responses

  1. Andy says:

    Meg,

    I NEED to know your new commandments for living! Come on you tardy thing, get them out here.

  2. brendadada says:

    So do I. I’m being a lapsed good person.

  3. Paul Mison says:

    +2 for Flickr Video, +1 for hobbled by technology. Also, I hadn’t realised that Tate Modern eventually got so annoyed with people falling into Doris’s crack that they fenced it off. Seems a shame really. Ah well, it’s gone now.

  4. Clair says:

    My votes go to hobbled by technology and Hotel life :)

  5. rodcorp says:

    New forms of storytelling pls

  6. anna says:

    I want them all, but if I have to pick one, I would like to read the hotel life one, because I was vaguely thinking about something regarding the hotel life, but you will write it conciser. Yes it’s a word.

  7. mike says:

    In no particular order: 1, 2, 3, 6, 10.

  8. The Girl says:

    Mm. I want them all too. (I am greedy.) If I *had* to pick some, I would go for these three:

    Being hobbled by technology
    Personality blogs and the cult of the meme (pron: Me! Me!)
    The rise of the renaissance journalist

    But really I want to read *all* of the things you listed above; I’ll take whatever’s on offer. :)

  9. Karen says:

    just wanted to say, i love your blog…can’t wait to read those posts!
    also, that photo is brilliant - i love how her legs mirror the shape of the crack.

  10. James says:

    They do all sound good, but…my top 3 for your consideration:
    1. Some new commandments for polite living
    2. Personality blogs and the cult of the meme (pron: Me! Me!)
    3. Team operating agreements

  11. William T says:

    Bit of a shame they’ve felt the need to put up barriers alongside the crack, don’t you think?

  12. Meg says:

    Actually, I thought it was a wonderful social commentary: warning, art can be dangerous.

  13. birgitte says:

    Renaissance journalist! Please.

  14. name says:

    eh, je cherche killme (yeah), ca fait un moment (yeah baby) qu il ne répond plus (yeah), j ai peur qu avec ses rhumatismes (roll over yeah baby) il soit rester coincé (yeah) dans sa chaise (yeah bab’) :)

  15. name says:

    Eh, je cherche killme (yeah), je m inquiète beaucoup (yeah bab’) car je ne l ai pas vu depuis longtemps (baby yeah baby), il est peut être resté coincé (yeah) dans sa chaise (roll over baby) à cause de ses rhumatismes (baby)

  16. nick s says:

    +1 renaissance journalist, +1 Canada. plsprettypls.

  17. richardsambrook says:

    Yourlackoftimeimpoverishestherestofus.
    (WHyhasmyspacebarstoppedworking?)

  18. weeza says:

    Hobbled by technology? Did you get tripped over by all your power leads? I hate it when that happens…

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