I’m not sure when Matt (@mattdesmier) gets a chance to sleep, let alone answer interview questions – he is director at Wise Old Uncle and Think Create Do based in Poole and also founded Silicon Beach – which started as an annual event gathering together the cream of the UK’s digital and creative sector in Bournemouth to share their expertise and latest […]
I met Matt Jukes on the internet first. Around the time that we were planning on launching GovCampCymru in Wales, this incredibly kind, enthusiastic, and encouraging character (@jukesie) popped up on the twitter streams. His remote efforts landed us a logo and the kind of momentum that is the difference between ‘we think this could […]
When I first met Matthew Partovi I think there was a mutual troublemaker recognition admiration thing going on. The kind where you identify a mischief maker and recognise that the motivation behind the mischief is to push the boundaries of what currently exists so we can get to where we need to go. Matthew was […]
As I sit in the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I thought it most appropriate to launch our new series on hackers. From here at MIT, unarguably the home of hackerdom, I should explain that this series of interviews is in part motivated by our wish to reclaim the term ‘hacker’ from the image […]