First of all, this is really me - Chris Dymond - not a blogging pseudonym (of which I also have a few). However, I am not Chris Dymond the racing driver or Chris Dymond the professional poker player or Chris Dymond the Canadian lawyer. Although I am the Chris Dymond who takes lots of photographs of walls on Flickr.
I live and work in Sheffield, in the north of England, with my lovely wife Rosie and our little son Lucas.
I’ve been working in the digital communications industry for around 20 years now, so pretty much my whole adult life. Variously as a software engineer, a technical author, a multimedia developer, a web developer, project manager, creative director and studio operations director. My current role is Business Innovation Director at TechnoPhobia. This means that I look for opportunities to apply digital communications technologies to business processes, and advise clients how best to do so.
I also have a first class humanities degree and a masters degree in politics, for which I specialised in international relations, democratisation and global governance.
My main areas of interest are related to innovation processes; the social web; new technologies, methods and applications; and the constant and continuing battle between regulatory and libertarian approaches to internet governance.
It’s more fun than it sounds.
And yes I do like novelty digital watches! 
