Yes I love lists. Here’s one with nine in it, which by a freak act of nature is the number of the new year that we have entered. I hope I don’t run out of juice by number five:
Slow-tech - It’s the title of a book by author Andrew Price. He’s putting forward a philosophy [...]
Shameless plug time. Building and BD is holding a virtual event similar to the Sustainability Now show that took place in the summer. It’s called Education Now and will cover schools, further education and university buildings, a market that is holding up (for now) in the current dire condition for the construction industry. There’s videos, [...]
More growing pains on the Building forum. Having decided as a team to give a couple of temporary bans to some troublesome users they are back with a vengeance. I’ve just gone back and re-read the really helpful comments from my post of a couple of weeks ago musing on the ethics of moderating and [...]
There wasn’t an entry on this (although there is one on the BRE). Until now. With assistance from my colleague Ed Sexton, who’s a bit of a Wikipedia nut (he recently created an entry on obscure 1990s band the Three Amigos) I’ve started the ball rolling. It’s rather pithier than the LEED entry, which probably [...]
I thought I would introduce another new blogger to come out of the Building fold. Step forward finance editor Tom Bill, who started his Citywatch site last week. Bill clearly has some meaty stories to get his teeth into at the moment - the blog could be renamed Carcrashblog for the next year or so. [...]
I’ve come up with some for the Building site. Some of them are “inspired” by other sites. Not sure about the attempts at humour. here goes:
Forum Rules
“With freedom comes responsibility”
The Building forum is an open online environment for free discussion, debate and collaboration. We like to see it, to quote that bit in Monty Python’s [...]
Part of the fun of working on a website is the immediacy and flexibility of working up content, changing or adding to it, moving it around etc etc. That’s also the troublesome aspect to this as well. You steam ahead adding sections and extra bits to a site and before long you’ve created a monster [...]
Bit of a navel-gazing post today. I’ve been musing about a couple of things in the past few days: forums and the tone of our sustainable coverage. In the first instance we’re now got the Building forum, launched some months ago, to something of a critical mass. There’s upwards of 350 people on it. I’m [...]
Be2Camp last Friday ended a frantic week. The phrase out of acorns springs to mind in relation to this venture. We’re not talking a mass community yet but I get the feeling that the issues that were bashed around during the day - how the web will revolutionise the way we work - will become [...]
More from the AOP conference that I attended on Wednesday, this time on new trends in the web. Interesting to see how the general principles discussed could be piggy-backed for construction and development. So all useful topics for next Friday’s Be2camp event. A few trends that were brought up by speakers and ideas as to [...]
