February 2012
1 post
“I, for one, would quite like to have the option of storing my...”
– Deborah Orr, We are living in a digital goldfish bowl…, guardian.co.uk, 13th February 2012
October 2011
2 posts
““Crowdfunding frees us up to feel it’s OK to pursue our own...”
– Yancey Stricker & Adrian Hon, The wisdom of crowdfunding: business’s quiet revolution, 20th October 2011
“The reason a chemistry text isn’t more fun is because it doesn’t...”
– Michael, a commenter in response to The Chemistry of Game Design by Daniel Cook, July 21st 2007
September 2011
1 post
“Children see the world differently and aren’t going to be satisfied with you...”
– Mark Sorrell, The Revolution Will Not Be Broadcast, September 2011
August 2011
2 posts
“EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no...”
– Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, 1974 & 1987
“I decree that history shall be rewritten. This time without any punctuation so...”
– Simon Munnery, aka The League Against Tedium
July 2011
2 posts
“…all media that mix ads with other programming are a form of ‘paid...”
– Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
June 2011
2 posts
“When the first market towns emerged in Italy, they didn’t magically create...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, 2010
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, 2010
May 2011
2 posts
“It’s like there are two views of the world - the solid one around us and...”
– Tom Coates, The Age of Point-at-Things, April 26th 2005
“The basic incompetence of human beings makes me think that the most likely...”
– Richard Herring, Warming Up, 3rd May 2011
April 2011
1 post
“Redesigns originate in the hazy concerns and political machinations of senior...”
– Louis Rosenfeld, Redesign Must Die, UX London 2011
March 2011
3 posts
“Music is not a series of pressure waves sounding through the air; nor grooves...”
– James Gleick, The Information, 2011
“When you read a work of history, always listen out for the buzzing. If you can...”
– E. H. Carr, What is History?
“It is not only necessary to make sure your own system is designed to be made of...”
– Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Principles of Design, 1998
February 2011
1 post
“Because here’s the thing - the thing that gets me so angry. Just for kids?...”
– Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Magazine, March 2011
January 2011
1 post
Some scribbles about Knowledge and Learning online...
I’m currently thinking a lot about the various aspects of the BBC’s ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Learning’ output online - and more widely about what the principles, strategy and attitude to the Web should be. The following consists of half-formed thoughts in search of a proper write up, and as such are not fully thought through, or indeed linked, but I wanted to put them...
November 2010
5 posts
“As Lanier has argued tirelessly over the past few years, so-called intelligent...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
“This sort of intelligent agent also goes by the name of “push...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
“The real magic of graphic computers derives from the fact that they’re not tied...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
“It’s not that people are paying less attention to the news than they used...”
– Jonathan Stray, Designing Journalism to be Used, 2010
“Digital news product design has so far mostly been about emulation of previous...”
– Jonathan Stray, Designing Journalism to be Used, 2010
October 2010
3 posts
“The metaphor [‘surfing’] suggests a certain agitated indifference,...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
“Yet for some reason, the critical response to hypertext prose has always fixated...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
“But both the Luddites and the GenXers were seriously misguided. Web surfing and...”
– Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, 1997
September 2010
3 posts
“It is probably the print and book bias of the BBC and the CBC that renders them...”
– Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media, 1964
“At the present time [1964], film is still in its manuscript phase, as it were;...”
– Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media, 1964
“Any innovation threatens the equilibrium of existing organisation. In big...”
– Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media, 1964
August 2010
1 post
“Non-artists always look at the present through the spectacles of the preceding...”
– Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media, 1964
June 2010
1 post
“Those who panic now about the threat of the newer media and about the revolution...”
– Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media, 1964