There’s no wireless here. When I whispered last night in an analogue backchannel to the performances (beer glass in hand but the room dully turned towards the stage and the tiny screens, no one sharing their experiences) a man turned to hush […]

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 […]

The Into The Blogosphere collection of essays on blogging is out, and many of the essays look really interesting. There are several on narrative, fictional and other literary aspects of blogs, among other things.