This is what happens when you’re in love. In love with where you live. You go through 2 days of Tube strike, you watch the city you love not even make it to the top 50 most liveable cities and generally go to shit with the economy. But it doesn’t matter to you, love is… Continue reading 6:34
Architectures of nostalgia
I’m moving to Brixton next weekend after more than 2 years in Hackney. That fact may seem banal to most of you but if you’re a Londoner, changing boroughs that dramatically almost means social hara-kiri. You might as well be leaving the country. It means that I become one of those people who live “saf… Continue reading Architectures of nostalgia
Things I need to remind myself of
Celebrating nearly 2 years as the CEO of a small and dynamic interaction design company I thought I’d collate some thoughts on starting up your own company in interaction design as this be useful for someone out there. – SHOW ME THE MONEY Money is important. When you start your own company, (i’m talking normal… Continue reading Things I need to remind myself of
Traveltag or how we thought of mapping in 2005
I dusted this off of the old Ivrea archives and thought of posting it as the plethora of mapping services and geo locative stuff these days still doesn’t seem to have addressed some of the thoughts that Didier and I were having over the spring of 2005. The idea was simple: if you’re a tourist,… Continue reading Traveltag or how we thought of mapping in 2005
It's not you, it's me…
Having recently gone through a series of breakups both personally and with online services, I’m starting to re-frame how I think of the connections we make online. If there was any way to establish how close you were to someone purely based on your digital traces, what would that look like? Would you count the… Continue reading It's not you, it's me…
On privacy
Random theory on a quiet and rainy Saturday afternoon in the city. Privacy exists only in the eye of the beholder and is more prevalent and easier to engineer than ever before. It’s all a question of audience. I’ll explain. The new standard in our ways of communicating (especially in the geekdom) is to publicly… Continue reading On privacy
Ada Lovelace post: Maja Kuzmanovic
Better late than never I say… I met Maja at Doors of Perception in 2007 in Delhi, we were roommates along with the fantastic Margaret Morris. Maja is the President of foAM a research group in Bruxelles who explore and support research around food, technology and ecology. She is probably one of the most driven… Continue reading Ada Lovelace post: Maja Kuzmanovic
Rewiredstate "hack": a new petitions site design for Number 10
I’m giving out a prize in about half an hour to whoever made the best thing today at Hack the Government day in the lovely offices of the Guardian. In spite (I say this as I’m surrounded by very serious looking data wranglers) of not being a coder, I made something too. Number 10 has… Continue reading Rewiredstate "hack": a new petitions site design for Number 10
About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
Some strange and loose notes taken during the workshop organised by Daniel Kaplan from FING and from Anne Galloway and Dan Hill‘s talk at LIFT 09. – Things we ask of cities include: – Make us safe – Make us meet – Make us green – Make us equal Maybe cities are a state of… Continue reading About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter
Following from what was a weepy post a week ago, I’ve decided to stop using Twitter once I reach 2000 updates (about 150 to go). I remember the evening I started using it, sometime in November 2006 when I was staying at Ben’s on Herengracht in Amsterdam. He sent me an invite and I looked… Continue reading More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter