Cloudculture, the internet wars and the sublimation of self
The launch event for Charles Leadbetter’s Cloudculture pamphlet at the ICA last night let loose a rain-shower of thoughts about individuality and ownershi...
Why the Secret London Facebook group is so successful
Tim recently pointed me in the direction of a Facebook group called Secret London. It currently has 188k members. This isn’t entirely surprising until you...
Time for a reassessment of the human-computer interface
A great blog post by Lukas Mathis has been floating around Twitter for a few days now. In it he talks about the removal of features in software developmen...
Apple needs a good syncing story quickly (or: how we need that syncing feeling)
Now that the dust has settled from the latest application of the Reality Distortion Field and we are all salivating at the chance to get our hands on the ...
SXSW’ward, ho!
Big news, little doggies…
Flights have been booked, passports renewed, and Tim’s brought his ten-gallon out of mothballs. Yes, that’s right — Ma...
A transatlantic breakfast summit
This morning I took part in a transatlantic blogger meet-up in the Martini Lounge (alas, not a one in sight, though it was 9am) at the new Arch Hotel.
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The Nike+ for … sleeping
There’s a pretty cool iPhone app that I’ve been trying out for a few days nights which seems to capture the imagination of everyone I talk/Twitter/Faceboo...
Wizards and haptic gestures
One response among designers and UX folk to Apple’s new iPad has been to criticise the effort required of users to command the haptic interface. Microsoft...
Delightful punctuation
As an erstwhile pedant and ex-employee of a major dictionary publisher, I have had my fair share of run-ins with punctuation. So I chuckled to see this br...
New Year resolutions? How are they going?
It used to be fags and booze that people gave up as a New Year resolution. 2010 was the first year I heard lots of people claiming they wanted to giv...
Buzzing around Made by Many: January 2010
This post is a sort of modified version of my ‘Stuff that’s floating around the office’ posts that I used to do earlier. With our increased use of Twitter...
Creation, curation and social contract
People are sharing stuff online more than ever before. The popularity of services such as bit.ly, ShareThis and even Twitter are evidence of this.
You...
Objectified: giving objects memories
This time last year I was deep in third year project stress at university. Given the guideline that we could do ‘anything’ there was initially quite a bi...
Persuasive signup
Signup forms are always a pain in the arse. For a long time, the volume of email addresses captured (as if they could get away) has been a pointless littl...
Excellent, a real-life Skinner Box
Instead of rodents, they’re using journalists – and instead of a Skinner Box they’ll be locked inside a French farmhouse in Perigord for five days and onl...
Is the Social Web a loony magnet?
The BBC’s Digital Revolution blog has been telling the story of the making of the new BBC2 series (which may be called The Virtual Revolution(?)) tha...
Pictory – A beautiful example of online editorial design
I’ve talked before about exploring different ways of navigating and consuming content online.
I first came across Pictory a few weeks ago and absolute...
Awww… we were so analogue back then!
Digital technology is such an ingrained part of most of our lives these days that I think we forget just how far it has come in our lifetimes.
We...