• Don’t be flip with the Flip

    A point to note if you have a new Galaxy Z Flip: Foldable phones like the Galaxy Z Flip and the Motorola Razr can’t afford much negative feedback if they ever want to go mainstream. Elsewhere around the web, most Galaxy Z Flip owners are seemingly enjoying the clamshell-style foldable phone Samsung invested heavily in to create. https://uk.pcmag.com/smartphones/124907/dont-worry-about-this-busted-galaxy-z-flip If you had a flip phone back in the days of feature phones – so we’re talking from the late 90s to the mid 00s…

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  • SDF 32: When Henry VIII met Dr Strangelove

    If historical analogies provide the measure of a man, then Downing Street henchman-in-chief, lead iconoclast and perpetual ideas recyclist “Classic Dom” Cummings is doing a spectacularly good job, writes Thomas Stoeckele introducing the show notes for episode 32 of our Small Data Forum podcast. In this episode that Thomas, Sam Knowles and I recorded just a week after Boris got Brexit done, we disagree with such a wild claim mostly in a reasonable way (although Thomas has a different view…

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  • It’s well over a decade since I started a new blog. I decided to start a new one as the blog I’ve known as an online home since 2006 has just about fulfilled its purpose. NevilleHobson.com has done pretty well for itself during the past 14 years. Variously a place for thinking out loud and sharing that thinking, a virtual brochure for consulting work, a second home for my podcasts, a place to tinker… even some awards during the journey.…

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  • I am always European

    And so, we’ve left. I didn’t consider Brexit Day on Friday 31 January 2020 as a day to celebrate anything. I didn’t watch the TV. I didn’t contribute any comments, likes, retweets. In fact, nothing at all to say on any social network. I was mostly absent. The only thing I did on Friday was update my profile pic on Facebook. This morning, I caught up a bit on what’s being said and who’s saying it across the broad spectrum…

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  • FIR 191: Two decades in 2.5 hours

    In what may be the longest single episode of a podcast ever, Shel and I present observations and prognostications from 17 of the smartest communication professionals in the business. (But when you consider that we covered 20 years in 2 hours and 20 minutes, it’s actually quite fast. And we might qualify for a Guinness World Record!) If you’ve been listening to FIR for a long time (the show started in January 2005), you’ll recognize some of these voices from the…

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