Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

Art from code in a Keith Peters stylee

Sunday, July 4th, 2010I came across the work of Keith Peters in a Scientific American article. I was intrigued and went in search of the man and his work - which is jaw droppingly wonderful. He writes, I’m Keith Peters. I write code ...

The future of ui

Friday, July 2nd, 2010John Underkoffler speaking about the way in which ui will change how we interface in the world

Linda Stone and human attention

Friday, July 2nd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5470" align="aligncenter" width="260" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577137@N04/2923238790"][/caption]The economist Herbert Simon, once wrote,What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention... The only factor becoming scarce in ...

Curated consumption in 2010

Monday, June 28th, 2010Good piece from Wired on Curated consumption, though Sarah Rotman Epps from Forrester takes a slightly different perspective to me and something we at SMLXL have been thinking about for a little while. In 2006,Lets just sprinkle the words, community, ...

All you need is love – MLove is all you need

Sunday, June 27th, 2010Last week I was speaking @ participating and co-creating in an event called MLove. Which was held in Beesenstedt in an old Schloss, in the middle of nowhere. When we landed in Altenburg, our driver said "welcome to nowhere. I ...

24 layers of telecommunication data topography

Tuesday, June 22nd, 201024 layers of Telecommunication data topography through tracing real geographical mobile uses hour by hour, Eunju Han.[caption id="attachment_5412" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="http://ht.ly/21Np0 "][/caption]What could data do for us?

No Straight Lines interview @dishymix

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Here is a link to the interview that I had with the fabulous Susan Bratton of DishyMix.It was said that Alan Moore sounded like a character from a Guy Ritchie movie at his SXSW keynote. Skyping in from Over, England (a ...

The hungry spirit seeks disorganised religion

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010It was Charles Handy that tells the story in his book The Hungry Spirit, that there are two hungers the lesser and the greater. The lesser is enough food to eat, the greater is why? Why are we here, what ...

Social Art Field Trip

Monday, June 7th, 2010The Centre for Creative Collaboration are running Social Art Field Trips, designed to get people started in using social tools to create something, they say that is, beautiful, interesting and useful for their customers and stakeholders.These are are hands-on explorations ...

If life is local then you have to mean it

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Life is Local is the anthem to which the Johnston Press sings along, and of course the truth is that in many ways, life is still very local, still very situated in physical space and place. Of course the struggle ...

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