Technology is….

“anything useful created by the human mind”. One of many nice definitions contained in a talk full of thought provoking ideas, analogies, metaphors and optimism, 

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Translucent Twitter

 Photo Cred I was reminded this morning of a paper from EPIC 2008 – the conference theme was visibility – on twitter and jaiku use, largely amongst self-employed consultant types. […]

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A Bit of Balance

  All Rights Reserved (Picture cred – it's a wonderful photo isn't it?) The debate about the adoption and use of technology by older people seems a little out of […]

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Window Shopping

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 […]

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Fat Pipes

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 […]

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Excluded

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 […]

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Multi-mediated

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 […]

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Oldr

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 […]

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Sexy Statisticians

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 […]

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She Sells Sanctuary

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 […]

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Technology Metabolism

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, […]

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