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To name it is to tame it
People who coin new buzzwords are helping us all. I need a new buzzword for ‘thinking more about problems and less about solutions’. Scope Creep Do you know what ‘scope creep’ is? Most people who do...
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We’re satisfied parsing news produced by people armed with bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are a disruptive innovation. If history is anything to go by, most people already feel quite satisfied parsing news (á la Google News) so this shift should be sending chills of terror...
View ArticleComments to the side, playful texts
Two things about the future of reading and publishing I agree with. With a couple of comments to the side. Two snippets from Bob Stein (of Institute for the Future of the Book...
View ArticleThe four skills you need to recycle and reinvent content
Managing the morgue Superfluous sales Product and service design Science The newsonomics of recycling journalism: There’s an important number in his week’s first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of...
View ArticlePriming and tagging
Steven Berlin Johnson ⇒ describes how he’s coming up with ideas for his latest book and says some interesting things. Priming is everything Here’s the bit that stuck with me most, as he suggests the...
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What revolution looks like
An image which incited a nation to revolution. And some images of an actual revolution, given to me by a friend. Havel na hrad! It’s Vaclav Havel on a poster which was plastered all over Prague before...
View ArticleWhy Video Games with Silent Heroes Had the Best Soundtracks
An excuse to collect some of my favourite music from video games. I just found them in an old text file from a couple years ago, 1 and realised, with great happiness, I can post them on This Is My...
View ArticleBrand Infrastructure
I saw this post about Tesla developing the ability to swap electric car batteries in around 90 seconds and didn’t think that much of it. (Then I thought a lot about it. This post is about content,...
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Minimal Viable Design (sic)
Minimum Viable Design is very hard. Says he unhelpfully. But with some examples. OR Nobody ever got fired for taking a minimal viable approach to digital design – a tale of design snowclones. I liked...
View ArticleDigital in our own image
Both of these stories are interesting. One’s about Chinese web startups, the other about Chinese EVE Online. Bookmarking for later. What American Startups Can Learn From The Cutthroat Chinese Software...
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