King banner
Like so many, I completely tune out ad banners when I’m viewing the web. It doesn’t matter what format or size they are, whether it’s an animated spectacu...
We’ve sorted the UX. How about the EX?
I think I can stick my neck out and say that *most* web industry professionals are pretty solid on user experience these days. The heuristics of web usabi...
Penelope Umbrico rocks
I read about Penelope Umbrico’s awesome project “Suns from the Internet” at the weekend – because it’s on at the Natman Room, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Bui...
Are we just mice trapped in a digital ‘Skinner Box’?
Yay… many thanks to Ben for mailing this awesome blog post from the O’Reilly Radar blog, by Jim Stodghill. Today is supposed to be the most depressin...
A rant about how society recognises talent
Clay Shirky’s “rant about women” has been on my mind this weekend. Although the blog post is intended to advice women on how to become more successful, th...
How Facebook is digging a grave for online marketing
This morning, as you do when you quietly settle in at your desk and get prepared for a long day at work, I logged in to Facebook to check what my social c...
What if Apple became a bank?
RRW have been trading on a rumour that Apple’s new iPhone is going to have NFC functionality in the coming Spring. About bloody time if you ask me. NFC (N...
A time to Twitter and a time to… not
We all know that the web is the greatest discovery engine (so far) ever conceived. And even if many of us experience an occasional overload anxiety, the a...
Isolating teh awesome
A reaction of many forward-thinking organisations in times of big change is to create an R&D department, a ‘lab’ or some kind of Skunk Works.
That...
The more you try and practice Agile the less agile you become. And vice versa
This Agile has a capital A. It can also have a lower case a, in which case it is an adjective, to be lean/nimble but that’s not what I’m talking about. Ag...
Less and more. Not so much.
Dieter Rams is big at the moment. His ten principles of good design seemed to explode around the interweb when the new Vitsoe site launched. He’s been pro...
The concept *is* the execution
Working alongside advertising people, you hear the phrase “oh, that’s executional” a fair bit. Granted, ‘executional’ is a revolting neologism, but that’s...
Agile as a ‘Cargo Cult’
Magic Hands by ShironekoEuro's under a CC licence
In our rapidly converging media world, we hear the word “agile” bandied around a lot these ...
Twitter, the spine of the internet
The Internet is a messy affair. When you think about how it works – pictures and text are broken into tiny little packets of data and are passed between s...
Old media vs. new media…and then some
View more documents from Bart De Waele.
Bart De Waele from Netlash made this presentation on old vs. new media recently. You can see the w...
2010 Prediction: many people will continue to not get it
Julia Neuberger’s silly piece about social networking vs real life in the Guardian yesterday was a timely reminder that whatever else happens in 2010, old...
The TV of the future
Mike’s post on Apps for Telly inspired me to write about something I’ve been thinking about for a long time: my ideal TV of the future.
It’s pretty cl...
Why Twitter could do with a shhhhh button
After initially disliking the new retweet functionality on Twitter, I’ve grown to like it. It’srediculously easy to retweet someone else now. It’s literal...