I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain

  • Commoncraft have another one of their great videos up – this time explaining why blogs are so important. If you have three minutes to spare, watch this short video:

  • I generated this graph on Prof Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org site. The data shows, somewhat surprisingly that the increase in carbon emissions in countries like Ireland and the US from 1975 to 2002 are not in any way mirrored by any…

  • Ross Cooney of Rozmic contacted me recently to tell me of their latest product, EmailCloud. EmailCloud is a server-side anti-(email)spam application which is accessible and configurable through a browser. The setup wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped (I messed…

  • After last year’s Le Web3 experience, my expectations for this year’s Le Web3 were very low! However, Loic, the conference’s organiser obviously took all of the criticisms of last year’s conference on board and delivered a fantastic conference this time…

  • I’m heading to the Le Web3 conference this week to deliver a talk on using technology (energy demand management) to reduce carbon footprints. This comes from our work in CIX on delivering a hyper energy-efficient data centre and my working…

  • This open stuff is really taking off! Google announced Android, their open source mobile phone platform, OpenID 2.0 has been launched and even AT&T are announcing that they are Opening their networks! Against that backdrop I was surprised to hear…

  • One bit of functionality which Flickr has long been missing is online photo editing. This was a bit of a gaping hole considering Flickr is a site for online photo sharing and storage! However, Flickr announced yesterday that they have…

  • Blognation seemed to be a great idea when it launched. Get great bloggers from all over the world, under one banner, pay them well and the advertising money will follow the quality content. Unfortunately, the money part seems to have…

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