At Incubation Ted Nelson, relocated to Oxford, spoke about the uninspired, paper-centric ways in which we use computers. “I never imagined, back then, that the techies would try to simulate paper,” he complained, calling Adobe Acrobat not merely a simulation of paper […]

List of 25 location-based, pervasive, mobile games around the world.

When I played violin, we used to laugh at the fingernail girls. They had long nails on every finger that needn’t touch fingerpad to wood: the left thumb, the right index, middle and ring fingers. Their other nails were neatly trimmed, for […]

My seven-year-old daughter ran around like a mad thing with the camera and of the hundreds she took, this is my favourite: one of her flipflop, one of her friend’s, strewn in grass the morning after a party.

It’s dawn. I guess that’s a gentle suggestion that perhaps, given I’m on this continent and not on that, I might consider sleep.

Looking at a map of the tags I’ve given my links at del.icio.us I find that though I’m an irregular user the words in their various sizes perfectly represent my interests. It’s not the only way of representing my interests, but yes, […]

I love blogs, and thinking about blogs, or rather, I usually do, but right now, to be completely honest, looking at the dozens and dozens of posts and papers and comments and ideas at Blogtalk right now I feel totally uninterested in […]

Lots of posting on Blogtalk 2.0 in Vienna, from favourite bloggers of mine like Torill (who gave a great keynote from the sound of it!) and Jon and Mark and Lisbeth and Lilia, who’s posting notes constantly. For serious conference tracking, there’s […]

What happened? Well, let me simply say this: never put your drink bottle in the same bag as your laptop. My laptop was only a little damp when we arrived at Liz’s, and I know the leaking could only have occurred during […]

I found the SurLaLune fairy tale pages when I ran out of bedtime stories for my daughter, and I’m staying for the density of the connections woven there: illustrations from half a dozen editions of each story, books and films inspired by […]