September 2011
8 posts
In the open internet very few people see you click
I like many others watched bits of the F8 keynote the other day. Just as with the unveiling of the Like button over a year ago I watched and I worried a little.
To me the Like button is a human powered web crawler. Most crawlers index the known web. When pressed, the Like button indexes the declaratively important web. Some may say that it indexes the visited web because the Like button is an...
Glanceable →
iamdanw:
Barnes has started a tumblr tracking glanceables
Well that got quite recursive quickly.
Toursquare. A little audiotour thing full of...
I’m getting rather fond of the Foursquare API at the moment and more and more with the service. In particular I’m liking the way that both the dataset and the API calls are, as the service is getting more used, becoming a bucket of sentiment and post-hoc intent wrapped around the geopoints, rather than just being the bare geopoints as it felt last year when I first played with the API....
Making meaningful and emotional utility out of...
I’ve been pondering how we can generate digital peripheral vision of late and this utilitarian miserablist sounding title relates to some recent thinking and playing about how to do it. Parish notice boards and signs attached to lamp posts do all sorts of wonderful things, but one major thing they do is they trigger our peripheral vision; that most basal of responses, the response which...
Ten years ago and today
It’s rare you get to look at an exact decade of your life. We all know what happened ten years ago. We can discuss deeply and from a vast collection of perspectives if and how it has changed the world on a macroscopic level. Today felt moving and poignant though as a result of seeing what changes ten years has wrought.
Ten years ago today I had lunch with my boss, Theo Bloom. My then...
Pondering the Kindle Android tablet vs iPad and...
Yesterday something really clicked for me. On my way to Shropshire Geek Fest Revolution I had some, ahem, issues with my rather beloved MacBook Air. It refused to read the memory stick with my as yet unfinished presentation on it. Since I had to change at Birmingham New Street I went into the Apple Store in the Bullring to do some file transfer things and to see if I could get someone to look at...
Big Bang Blues (Restaurants and communities of...
I currently have a bit of a sad face. It’s nothing really bad, it’s about a restaurant. My favourite restaurant in Oxford, my new home town, closed just under a week ago. It’s not because it’s economically unviable, it’s due to property development that will lead to a greater creep of that great homogoniser, chain supermarkets, into an area which is largely about...