What we have to do, what it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of lying.
Obama Girl rocks it
November 6This is old and you’ve probably seen it already. But, it’s a brilliant bit of fan media that beats the crap out of all the Ron Paul spam.
if (in_canterbury()) unset $devculture;
November 3
I dropped by Waterstone’s this afternoon to find a book on Flex (largest bookshop in Canterbury). There were no books on Flex.
Instead, I took a picture of their PHP section. Read the titles. This shot is pretty emblematic of the web/dev culture here as a whole.
*Sigh*
The Moment of Complexity
November 2
For chance to have a chance, for time to be more than an illusion, and for history to be the site of aleatory emergence, systems must be open.
The Web: Where is the Dream?
October 30
I love the web. I love great web apps. I love making them. And I love using them.
I’ve got a lot invested in the “sematic web,” open source philosophy (and practice!), APIs, the late-90s dictum that “information wants to be free,” and still think “What is Web 2.0” is a great article.
We’ve been drinking the punch since the rise of the second bubble - and who wouldn’t drop by the open bar? It’s been damn good. But things are starting to change.
Remembering The Dream
I remember reading TIME Magazine’s 2006 “Person of the Year” article (”You”) with rapt attention:
“But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before…
It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.”
I remember reading TechCrunch for the first time and checking out all the new startups that were cropping up. I’d read up on the latest mashups, spend hours playing with new APIs, and find ways to shoehorn unnecessary products into my workflow.
Flickr was really cool, YouTube was revolutionary, Google was cranking out new products developed in-house, and Facebook was the ultimate un-MySpace that spooked the giant from a Harvard dorm.
From “Mash” to “Mush”
But things have cooled down in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s 5pm
October 29
It’s mid-afternoon. Do you know where your children are?
I took this photo at 5:10 pm yesterday. It is going to be a *long* winter.
In London
October 20I’m heading up to London to for the 2007 Cut & Paste digital design competition today and tomorrow.
I’ll be spending most of the weekend shooting around a thousand photos while walking around and relaxing away from the laptop. Now that’s my kind of weekend.
Are you nearby? Drop me an e-mail - let’s grab a cuppa.