The problem and the fragmentation of content and communication
I’m fascinated by the recent startup activity that seems to addressing the “problem” of communications and discourse on the web. Within a relatively short time, we have seen the launch of Svbtle,...
View ArticleBarriers to writing: what prevents more long-form content?
In my last post I talked about the problem of communication on the web, and its subsequent fragmentation. All the activity I pertain to in the post suggests the need and want to write to communicate...
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CreativeMornings: a Kickstarter campaign to create an archive of talks
I’m excited to see that Tina has pushed the button on a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to create a searchable archive of every talk from each of the 34 chapters of the grassroots event she...
View ArticleA few updates to my New York list
A little while ago I wrote about some of my favourite places in NYC (which I have now added to a Foursquare list). Having just come back from a week’s trip there I thought I’d add a few more places:...
View ArticleWhat features would you like to see from a new blogging platform?
This is largely a follow-on from a previous blog post, but also to elucidate a few recent tweets about the fact I’m building my own blogging platform. It’s a hosted solution somewhere between Svbtle...
View ArticleWhy Passbook’s scope is massive and important
I keep on asserting that the scope and importance of Passbook—a new feature in iOS 6 that allows you to store airline boarding passes, coupons, etc.—is massive, and people are asking why. Companies...
View ArticleInnovation isn’t a hover-board
Another product launch from Apple, another round of groans and whinging about how as a company they have lost their way, and that innovation has withered. This is despite the fact that they just...
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Insites: The Book (and why I wanted to sponsor it)
Around this time last year at Brooklyn Beta, Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks told me they were going to create a book of the same name as their excellent series of talks/meet-ups, Insites, which...
View ArticleOn the “flat design” aesthetic
I’ve recently enjoyed two excellent articles by two guys (intriguingly both called Allan) celebrating a new era of “flat design”, and ultimately about how—as interactive designers—we should embrace...
View Article“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it...
I hadn’t heard this quote by Steve Jobs before. I’m not sure where he said it nor in what context, but I love it. It’s a sentiment that often gets ignored in the ongoing debates between designers and...
View ArticleEmbracing the design and UX amateur
Seth Godin published two excellent blog posts over the holidays: How to make a website: a tactical guide for marketers, which was promptly followed up by True professionals don’t fear amateurs. The...
View ArticleMy notes from Brooklyn Beta… two months late
The original title of this post was “It was Brooklyn last week” and had it closed for two months. I don’t know why. Going to an event like Brooklyn Beta is tricky to capture in a written post, but...
View ArticleThe free work dilemma
Like everyone else, this year I’ve had some fun projects, some challenging, and of course some disappointments. But it’s an interesting exercise to analyse the different types of projects against how...
View ArticleVerbose content discovery: adding the human touch to aggregation
I’m a voracious consumer of written content. Nothing on the web makes me happier than filling my Instapaper bucket with shiny pebbles. It doesn’t matter that I might not end up reading them all, but I...
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A few things I learned from redesigning and redeveloping siteInspire
The new siteInspire is live, and I’m pretty exhausted. I started the process almost a year ago, which is an insane amount of time full of ups and downs. So I thought I’d pen a few notes as to what I...
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A few things I learned from redesigning and redeveloping siteInspire
The new siteInspire is live, and I’m pretty exhausted. I started the process almost a year ago, which is an insane amount of time full of ups and downs. So I thought I’d pen a few notes as to what I...
View ArticleGoing a long distance to come back a short distance correctly
“Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.” A perfect quote from Edward Albee, directly related to my last post on the redesign of...
View ArticleSmallknot — a platform to help invest in local, small businesses
I heard about Smallknot on Monocle’s The Entrepreneurs, but didn’t follow up by taking a look at their website until now. I’ll let them explain what they do: Smallknot lets you invest in the small...
View ArticleAn app to help you remember and buy good wine
This is hardly going to save the world but the other day I had a little idea that you can have for free, because it’s something I’d like to use. Like you–probably–I like drinking wine, and have...
View ArticleThe problem and the fragmentation of content and communication
I’m fascinated by the recent startup activity that seems to addressing the “problem” of communications and discourse on the web. Within a relatively short time, we have seen the launch of Svbtle,...
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