- Social sausages
Last night saw a little gathering at The Wonk Foundation for the launch of their report cunningly linking social capital and social software (see what they've done there?). It was mostly fun because afterwards I could chat with friends on a sunny terrace overlooking The Mall while a woman fed us cocktail sausages. There were, of course, the expected “oh please” moments (“Virtual community is an idea whose time has passed”), a lot of blindingly obvious things that people have been saying for years and a few precious moments of sense.
In Misc on 30 May 2003. 14 comments. Permalink
- Smoke: A London Peculiar
After seeing 2lmc mention it earlier in the week I went and bought issue one of Smoke yesterday. It's as pleasing as I hoped, free of Hoxtonian style-mag nonsense, and with OK writing too (aside from a predilection for overly-long and unfunny similies). The contributors are excited about living in London, about its history and its fictions, and have a refreshing lack of sarcasm and cynicism. And it has a photo of the Temple of Mithras bus stop.
In Misc on 30 May 2003. 2 comments. Permalink