Due in part, no doubt, to the extreme attention deficit disorder induced by the web and other technologies, I missed this book on The Nature of Technology by W Brian Arthur. Thanks to Russell Davies for the tip off and for … Continue reading
Watchers of the telecare industry – not everyone I know – will have read with interest an article this week on the potential for a private pay market for telecare and even telehealth in the UK. Perhaps this is the … Continue reading
Having survived for over three and half years without broadband – since moving to Ireland – I was overjoyed to receive this flyer in the post last week. Having been badgering my local TD for over 6 months this comes … Continue reading
I'm not able to attend Include 2009, which starts today in London at the Royal College of Art, but the paper I wrote with Nina Warburton from The Alloy is included and she's presenting it on behalf of us both. … Continue reading
This passage capturely wonderfully the networked media infused and supported parallel lives we (some) people live: "…consider that each medium represents a slightly different slice of the people I know and interact with. My landline is reserved for close friends, telemarketers (unintentionally) … Continue reading
I've got a piece just out in the latest edition of User Experience Magazine (Volume 8, Issue 1, 2009) entitled "Web 2.0 for an Older Population: Exploring the Limits". The article grew out of my sense that whilst everything Web 2.0 is … Continue reading
From an article in Mckinsey Quarterly on how the web challenges managers, a great passage on an emerging skillset. Although it's a much broader article in terms of what it covers – comparing the rise of technology in organisations to … Continue reading
A rather brilliant commentary on the ecology of media and technology, via Memex 1.1
The Santuary is kind of unnecessary, rather elegant and desirable too. Just right for the FT’s How to Spend it magazine. For those who are making an, er, honest living shorting the shares of struggling banks most of what is … Continue reading
There may be no Moore's Law for culture but some countries adopt technology quicker than others. That simple observation provided the germ of a super interesting project run by colleagues at Intel, which was showcased recently at Research at Intel in Mountain … Continue reading
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone. Turns out he is a) a great writer on technology and b) very well informed aabout technology. Two things that don’t always come together as they do in Dork Talk. I love this quote on … Continue reading
Of course I don’t read The Telegraph and I woudn’t expect you to either, so here’s a excerpt from the Peterborough colum. It appears that usability is the coin of realm, even when you are queen of the realm "I … Continue reading
"That’s a funny kind of thing, in which each new object becomes theoccasion for seeing again what we can see anywhere; seeing people’snastiness or goodness or all the rest, when they do this initiallytechnical job of talking over the phone. … Continue reading
Word cloud analysis of the keynotes from Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who all gave key note speeches last week. The speeches were also run through a text analyser/assessor to understand the simplicity of the language. Jobs’ comes … Continue reading