Song of the day. Sammy Parton/Jolie Holland/Syd Barrett's Littlest Birds, as sung by The Be Good Tanyas. Photo by John Haslam.
Continue reading...21. July 2009
Tim Hwang looks like a super cool guy. And he's not just cool because Joi Ito took his portrait. Nope. Most important? He founded ROFLCon, the internet celebrity conference. Or maybe it's his work at Harvard. Or maybe this awesome talk on video games and citizen engagement. Hmmmm, hard to decide!
Continue reading...14. July 2009
she closes the lid and unplugs the device no bigger than her thumb from the computer... And, her lifes work is more than a four meg flash drive. My lifes work, she says, is the impact that this has. This is not about what I produce. It is all about what others receive.
Continue reading...14. July 2009
Introducing Freebase: "the easiest way to add free, community-curated, Creative Commons licensed content to your web applications." Watch the video. Imagine the possibilities.
Continue reading...13. July 2009
On passing through the immigration control at the airport in Tehran, she was asked by the officers if she has a Facebook account. When she said "no", the officers pulled up a laptop and searched for her name on Facebook. They found her account and noted down the names of her Facebook friends.
Continue reading...13. July 2009
My first Artefatica project is coming along. Sooooo slowly. A draft of the website for our first book — Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project — is up! Check it out, send some feedback, add your story or your vision.
Continue reading...5. July 2009
In April I went to see Astra Taylor's Examined Life, a film that "pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets." Right. No no really it was good. They just set themselves up for me to be bitchy by describing it that way.
Continue reading...4. July 2009
The adoption of he technologies of the City Control is not inevitable, nor something that we must kindly accept nor sleepwalk into. Each of us can help contribute to building technologies of trust and empower ourselves in the age of mass surveillance and ambient technologies.
Continue reading...3. July 2009
We've been stuck swinging back and forth between the hierarchical and individualistic, the old public versus private debate. This model is inadequate and misleading. Instead we should imagine four different colours of algae competing over the surface of a ping-pong ball. When one gets bigger the others shrink. The edges are constantly changing.
Continue reading...2. July 2009
Been thinking about tattoos lately. And although this image is not a tattoo I find it really lovely. Especially the lace one. It’s Bare — a conductive ink for skin. A collaboration between Bibi Nelson, Isabel Lizardi, Matt Johnson, and Becky Pilditch. I am at once fascinated and frightened. Will take time to think and articulate [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2009
Because I love trains. And am drawn to understanding how we are connected. Or not. From the New Scientist’s article on our connected earth.
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6. December 2009
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