4 year old tradition. 1.What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Missed a flight. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Really didn’t as far as I can remember. I have a lot on next year’s list as a result. 3. Did… Continue reading End of a year review (endings aren’t ever real endings)
Month: December 2010
30
1. Used (as –30–) to indicate the end of a newspaper (or broadcast) story, a copy editor’s typographical notation. 2. The duration in years of the Thirty Years’ War – 1618 to 1648. 3. 30 is the sum of the first four squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number. 4. The number of tracks… Continue reading 30
Deep City (the printed edition)
Giles Lane invited me to lead one of the days in the series of hands-on explorations called “City as Material” which resulted in Layered being published. I came into the Proboscis offices a few weeks later and decided to revise the Deep City talk I’d given at the Microsoft Social Symposium and put those thoughts… Continue reading Deep City (the printed edition)
mybookmarks and the death of del.icio.us
As the mass exodus to Pinboard takes place in the wake of the almost announcement of “sun-setting” del.icio.us, I had a real long thought about these bookmarking sites and exported by bookmarks from delicious in order to look at all of it. I found stuff I hadn’t looked at in ages. Some of it made… Continue reading mybookmarks and the death of del.icio.us
Interaction design history
Always good to know how to look back. Very nice deck. Interaction Design History View more presentations from Marc Rettig.
Mapping creativity in London?
Was intrigued by the accusation that the council of Barnet was going to be the only council not to invest in Arts by cutting funding to Artsdepot. The whole debate in the Evening Standard article a few days ago made me want to know where exactly does “creativity” happen and if you can start mapping… Continue reading Mapping creativity in London?