#lloyd davis

[noarthere1]

Brother Bothers - Part 3

[noarthere1]

L-Birds Secondary Characters

[lionfloss]

by llllloyd

[tonyhall]

Freedom of the Streets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2h8c9bwXI

[somewherehq]

Meet The Community #29: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd used to have a job. A regular job just like everyone else. Then he began to write and publish his thoughts on his own blog. Three months later he decided it was time to quit. 

Thanks to his blog, Lloyd established himself as an independent consultant, writer and social artist. Because of something that started as a little side project, he could soon earn his living by what he loved doing the most.  That was in 2004; The year Lloyd stumbled into his role as one of Europe's social media pioneers when most people didn’t even know what social media was. 

Ten years later, Lloyd still believes in social collaboration and openness, which is why his Sparks on Somewhere feel like a visual diary of work moments and thoughts. Head to Lloyd’s page and see for yourself.

[stacktivism]

Water Infrastructure #stacktivism #htb2013

I saw Dan tweet about a collaborative google map about “Water Infrastructure Collapse”. I had a look and got the general idea to highlight instances where the infrastructure isn’t working. I’ve been interested in the concept of the mostly-invisible infrastructure stack since listening to Vinay talk about 6 ways to die and the work that Jay and others are doing around the idea of #stacktivism ie activism about the stack, it’s ownership, the political consequences etc.

I’d seen the Herne Hill flood in the news the other day, so I added that to the map. And then I searched for “burst water main UK” and found a number of other local news stories – if it’s big enough to stop traffic, it’s usually big enough to make the local paper, and that, these days, means it gets into Google News. So I added a few more, in Derby, Peterborough and S Norwood. [having just written that, I'm thinking now that what the map needs is something to show which water companies are involved...]

That got me thinking about leakage – surely someone must be monitoring this. Someone must be collecting data. So I had a look at the OfWat site and although I found the definitions of key performance indicators, I couldn’t actually find the data except by looking on each of the water companies websites. So I rang them up and put on my best information manager’s voice and asked whether anyone collated it all. No. They don’t, but they do require the companies to publish them and the woman I spoke to pointed me to the page where there are at least links to all the PDFs for this year. Once I’d downloaded all the PDFs I got to the bottom of the page where, “ta da!” there’s actually a summary spreadsheet for download. So I grabbed that.

-- Great piece from Lloyd Davis On Water infrastructure and leakage // jay

[wtfisjazz]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - On a little street in Singapore

1952