Invisible Infrastructure, by Brand (November 24th, 2009 - 406 views)
If you visit Southern Cross Station at the moment (as I do a few times a week) you will see ANZ billboards and banners all over the place. What you might not notice straight away is that they have also blanketed the area with free wifi – providing this invisible infrastructure that people will only [...]
Growing web infrastructure with Nodecity (August 3rd, 2009 - 851 views)
We often give little thought to the infrastructure that supports the web. After doing a Cisco networking course years ago I abstracted my thoughts up to the higher levels of application development and social interaction, but it’s worth revisiting the fact that without the lower levels these ideas wouldn’t be possible.
After seeing traces of his [...]
Pick your own editorial team (July 7th, 2009 - 1,559 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, [...]
Emergent events with realtime backchannels (May 19th, 2009 - 1,075 views)
Having run and participated in a number of interesting events recently I have been thinking about the formats that we use, and which structures produce an effective environment for engagement and constructive collaboration. It strikes me as odd that although I’m writing from the ‘Future Summit‘, that we are using the same elements as we [...]
