This talk was given at Lovebytes on the 12 Feb 2010. Thanks to Lisa for the invitation. Tom Armitage gave a talk a few years ago about manners and etiquette which has stayed with me and which, with the recent meme around playfulness and Russell’s talk at Playful last year, got me thinking about how [...]
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Tagged: design, friction, latour, lovebytes, social, talk, welovetechnology
This post kinda came out of a presentation I gave at bathcamp and the previous post on The Cost of Knowledge. That presentation was about how the domain of formal knowledge as presented by academic publications was needlessly costing us as taxpayers millions of pounds a year *and* yet still kept this ‘knowledge’ under copyright [...]
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There has been lots written about knowledge in recent times. How the interenet has made knowledge ‘open’ and how social media is enabling enterprises and individuals to share information cost effectively, reducing the trasncation cost of communicating and socialising to really low levels. And we’ve had the eLearning industry come and (nearly, hopefully, go) and [...]
Nice piece in the guardian yesterday about "repair culture" dying out. The desire for high end premium goods worth repairing has been stripped by the huge market in cheap white goods that have become almost as disposable as bic razors, albeit with a slightly longer life span and trickier to dispose of which in itself [...]
Categories: society
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Skimming Block, originally uploaded by superlocal. I love the Far East. I love the way they just get on and make stuff and then make more stuff to solve the problems of the initial [...]
Went to the Neighbourgoods Market in Woodstock, a rather run down area to the North East of Cape Town today. The market is a curated food and design market, which runs every Saturday and whilst it’s a bit stereotypically ‘organic’ [white, wealthy, educated, urban, lefty liberal, crocs wearing...], it’s such a vibrant interesting environment that [...]
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Not the snappiest of titles and this isn’t the most lucid of posts, it’s more a half-baked brain dump. Never-mind. So, of late I’ve been trying to articulate what the new media landscape looks like and how it ‘works’, to a largely lay audience. It’s hard to convey complex things simply which is perhaps why [...]
Categories: research,socialsoftware,society,software
"… with a view to informing decisions and taking action." Maps are perhaps the oldest and best forms of visualising data. Met up with Danny Dorling last night, Professor Danny Dorling to you, master of maps which actually kind of underplays the incredibly important role he has in defining social policy, especially in the UK. [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The attention economy, originally uploaded by JamesB. Too much noise. Secondary signs – the clock, ‘the orange jacket’ – become filters. How simple would it be to create a physical IA here that was [...]
Categories: society
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Oily Bird, originally uploaded by olivander. I’m struggling with the mantra of digital strategists like Seth Godin who argues that we need to make things as simple as possible for people: We like [...]
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