It’s time to fight back. Our data is being used to profit from us, influence us and even trick us. The question is what can we do about it? Well, we already have a lot of power under the law. We can demand from companies to treat our data in accordance with General Data Protection … Continue reading Time to fight back
For the love of it
A couple of weeks ago my daughter bought me a present. Actually it was a combined birthday and Father’s Day gift. It was a Google Home Mini. She knew that I hadn't got one and so she kept the receipt just in case it was not up my street. But I’ve kept it and it's … Continue reading For the love of it
A self made-up man
I am such a person. Everything I am is a narrative I tell myself. All of the good bits I scrub and polish until they shine while all of the bad bits are overlooked or put in a draw never to see the light of day again. I nurture this persona through the things I … Continue reading A self made-up man
We need Euogle
‘Don’t be evil.’ That’s what Google’s Corporate Code of Conduct used to say until it was amended recently. Apparently it now says ‘Do the right thing.’ Is there a difference? Perhaps. Being evil is a more profound statement which permeates through everything that someone could do. It has an almost religious quality. The new slogan … Continue reading We need Euogle
Imagine a car
The opening speaker on day 2 of the Unit4 conference gave us his thoughts on the future of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It was at the Conference Centre in Harrogate. I am not the greatest of advocates for ERP in that I don’t think grand systems solve anything and in the effort to combine all … Continue reading Imagine a car
It’s all gone crazy
It's all gone crazy. There used to be a time when I could decide to get involved in this and that, go to this meeting and that meeting but not anymore. Now it is more a question of having to go to this meeting or that meeting or even that meeting. I am being stretched … Continue reading It’s all gone crazy
Forget about me
The right to be forgotten, as part of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), is exercising my mind. It's not really called that, it is actually called ‘The right to erasure’. The broad principle underpinning this right is to enable an individual to request the deletion or removal of personal data whether there is no … Continue reading Forget about me
Symbiosis or parasite
We hear a lot about disrupters these days. Technology so a disruptive industry. It has allowed new business models to emerge and firms have sprung up overnight that are sweeping away the old guard and rewriting the rules on how firms should operate. They have disrupted. Organisations such as Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Hungryhouse … Continue reading Symbiosis or parasite
Building skills
I must admit that I find children and young people the worst audience to present to. They scare me stiff and as Graham and I walked into the main hall at Farringdon Community Academy I began to wonder what we had let ourselves in for. There were at least one hindered and fifty of them, … Continue reading Building skills
A billion maps
Here we are on planet earth, a rock suspended in space and time, hurtling around the sun at more than sixty thousand miles per hour, racing through the universe at God knows what speed and relative to what? Who knows? And on this earth there are six or seven or eight billion people, who can … Continue reading A billion maps
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 