Make Hay

Well, I didn’t actually, not this year after having attended over several of the last few years… The Hay Festival remains a very special few days away amongst books, debate Continue reading →

Venus…

Yes, it might look like something from Woody Allen’s ‘The Sleeper’, or 70′s Azimov (and what’s wrong with that anyway?) but the Venus Project is one fun and thought provoking Continue reading →

Who’s afraid of the iPad?

Will the iPad be successful in the UK? What can it be used for? Could this reading slate be the saviour of publishing? Does publishing need saving? In this whitepaper each Continue reading →

so ‘we’ will inherit the earth?

This article suggests so… Gerd Leonhard on why social media engagement is taking over from search as the primary route for customers to find and interact with brands… You have Continue reading →

Far out…

Oooh I like this… RjDj is a music network where music is produced, distributed and listened to as software. Musicians, Producers and Listeners have a whole new world of musical Continue reading →

Datavis geekery

With the news of artificial life created in a test tube and a double dip recession breaking this morning, I am going to hide in IA and numbers today until Continue reading →

This. . . is. . . Sparta! The Culture of Education 2.0

Wonderful rousing comment on the future of education from Rob Tucker… Simple, eloquent analysis. He suggests a move from Athenian model of learning – passive, unquestioning, respectful, to an approach Continue reading →

Down with the kids…

Alex Howard puts it straight when he reports on the work of Danah Boyd on Government involvement in social networks and engaging the yoot online, here. Young people don’t want Continue reading →

CitID

Brilliant project to collate an individual typeface or logo for every city in the world. It looks like they are open to submissions so if you are a crafty logo Continue reading →

Blip

David Armano’s Logic and Emotion blog takes an interesting view of the extension of social network applications into our lives beyond the privacy settings of the individual platform and becoming Continue reading →