Minimal Mac Menubar (November 30th, 2009 - 922 views)

For the last few weeks I have been working without the clock in my menu bar and it has been awesome. By taking something away you realise how often you pay attention to it, and as a clock changes every minute I was paying a lot of attention! Time is a very useful thing but [...]

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Pick your own editorial team (July 7th, 2009 - 1,540 views)

The chatter about how the newspaper industry is dying is massing, again, but recently I have been thinking about how my use of Twitter has been replacing their key value-generator. Years ago you read newspapers not just for national news but local news, global news, sport, weather, marriages, births, deaths, real estate, cars, jobs, travel, [...]

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It’s got the internet inside it (June 22nd, 2009 - 837 views)

I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of the internet as something that can come in a box, and that an item can have inside it. The megatrend of connectedness is continuing and with it more nodes are being connected to the web. As the internet becomes a standard piece of infrastructure [...]

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Revisit Your Old Flickr Photos with Time Capsule (December 2nd, 2008 - 1,649 views)

Photographs have an amazing ability to induce nostalgia. We capture them without regard for how we will view them in the future. They are sharper than our memories, something to rely on. Why are they so often abandoned afterwards?

Flickr and Facebook and the numerous other photo-sharing websites available today all help us distribute our images [...]

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