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
To those young blessed souls
I’ve been invited to lead a sort of online discussion for the near-graduation 4th year students of the BA in Industrial design in Montreal. I was in their position in 2004 which seems like so ages ago and I remember the feeling. I felt like I was sortof on the brink of an abyss, the… Continue reading To those young blessed souls
Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
Russell Davies had the lovely idea of proposing a project around speculative modeling with the Lyddle End series. I received a Lock Side Stores. This is my response in the form of imagery and conversations taking place in 2050. 1. An afternoon at the Science Museum – So this is it? – Yeh – ….… Continue reading Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
The problem with starting a company
Is that you forget to build an actual circle of friends around you. Friends that you can get a drink with after work, friends who want to have coffee with you on weekends. I want friends to have a chat with. Twitter isn’t friends. Facebook isn’t friends. Flickr isn’t friends. After nearly 2 years in… Continue reading The problem with starting a company
Know your food
After Open Sauces in November, I got interested in food again, especially the way food is presented and communicated in the context of supermarkets. There’s something deeply depressing about the presentation of fruits and veg in the UK and there is also something cultural about that presentation. When I lived in Italy, access to certain… Continue reading Know your food