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Like anyone with sense, I'm a bit averse to the "web 2.0" hype; Wikinomics marks the peak of this hy...
First, it seems obvious that the web can help in community development, whether through social networking for neighbours or by inviting communities to participate in creating green maps based on OpenStreetMap that the community can find both online and (once printed) in libraries, community centres, maybe their homes. So long as they are treated as... [Source: http://tom.acrewoods.net]
3 comments in conversation. Last comment found 10 hours ago.
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Be2camp - chaos, community and collaboration<\/h1>
Oct 13th, 2008<\/abbr><\/span> by Phil Clark<\/a>. <\/address> <\/div> Be2Camp<\/a> last Friday ended a frantic week. The phrase out of acorns springs to mind in relation to this venture. We’re not talking a mass community yet but I get the feeling that the issues that were bashed around during the day - how the web will revolutionise the way we wo... [Source: http://zerochampion.building.co.uk]
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be2camp
October 6th, 2008 I'll be parachuting into the capital on Friday to take part in the first be2camp unconference. I'm really looking forward to being able to properly announce one of my latest projects: YouCanPlan Lozells. A few weeks ago, Birmingham City Council put out an invitation to tender for an extremely innovative and ambitious proposal that... [Source: http://no2self.net]
4 comments in conversation. Last comment found Sunday.
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Adrian McEwen Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Excellent. I'll look out for that session in the schedule then.
And I should get my finger out and sign up for Pecha Kucha too, just not sure exactly how to reprise the Internet of Things in a few fast-paced slides.
Hopefully catch up with you on Friday.
Podnosh Blog » Archive » You can plan Lozells Says:
October 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
[...] Rob Annable, a social media architect (oh yes) is about to launch a new project for public consultation on community plans: A few weeks ago, Birmingham City Council put out an invitation to tender for an extremely innovative and ambitious proposal that would allow the residents of Lozells to comment on the plans for their community through a dedicated virtual environment. The bespoke software was required to be accessible both on and offline, allow the user to explore their neighbourhood in 3D, adjust the model themselves and make comparisons between design options then submit feedback to inform the next stage of development. It should show varying levels of detail, from the widest to the smallest and it should be ready to go in a matter of weeks. For more see here. [...]
Kevin Harris Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Dang Rob - my turn to regret not having found out about this in time! Looks like an interesting project and an enticing event yesterday. You don't say anything here about user involvement in the development - would be keen to hear about that.
kevin
Phil Clark Says:
October 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Congrats on your Pecha Kucha performance, especially meet the challenge of discussing new forms or urbanism after a couple of light ales. Hopefully that will be on the Be2camp site soon. Having just written those words I'm wondering whether the next event should be on a green field.
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September 26, 2008 11:06 PM
John Willman is UK Business Editor of the Financial Times, so his take on the UK economy was an important contribution to the NWDA 2008 Annual Conference in Liverpool. His message, whilst analytically cautious in the present market chaos, came over as generally upbeat. Would that Tim Leunig had seen things in the same light. The headline message fr... [Source: http://www.hilaryburrage.com]
1 comment in conversation. Last comment found October 06.
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It sounds like it was a good talk. Unfortunately I only found out about the conference after I moved to Liverpool, by which time all the tickets had gone.
I think there's a lot of scope for improving the Northern cities, particularly if, as you note, they can foster a can-do attitude and approach.
I'm hoping to play my part in helping Liverpool manage that, having just ignored Tim Leunig's "advice" and moved from Cambridge to the North-West.
Posted by: Adrian McEwen | October 6, 2008 10:43 AM
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A New Chapter
Some of you know this already, but a lot of you don't. In June of this year I left The Design Conspiracy. Before you ask; there was no big drama and no big falling out. I announced at the start of the year that I'd like to leave. It was time for a change. New challenges. It's been odd not being there. I have lots of brilliant memories and stories t... [Source: http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com]
12 comments in conversation. Last comment found October 06.
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I'm very excited for you, good luck with it all. And, good luck to all the people at Design Conspiracy as well. Have they relaced you? Is there a Lars and the real girl situation over there or are they OK? Well done you for keeping things scary and fun.
Posted by: caroline | Oct 02, 2008 at 21:07
This is starting to sound like an end more than a beginning. Anyways, I have always enjoyed reading your blog and I hope that you'll be able to keep it fresh with all of your new ventures. Congratulations on starting anew as I'm sure it feels like you just popped out of the shower after a hard days work.
Again,
Congrats from CHI
Posted by: Richard | Oct 02, 2008 at 23:38
Now you're fucked.
Posted by: Tom of the Rovers | Oct 03, 2008 at 09:20
Good luck, looking forward to reading the next chapter.
Posted by: Mark McGuinness | Oct 03, 2008 at 15:01
Blimey.
Posted by: The Kaiser | Oct 06, 2008 at 10:31
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Um, hello…
Posted October 1, 2008 This ad will vanish when you reload. Sheepish smile. Not that sheep smile at all. On the whole they don't give a damn about what you think of them. I'm still here. My blogging has been slack of late, both here and on the sirius-blog-is-sirius ASH-10 site. In fact I've only really been keeping Twitter updated with any degree o... [Source: http://peteashton.com]
12 comments in conversation. Last comment found October 03.
Last 5 comments:
Pete Ashton on October 3rd, 2008
@anon Yup. Weird, huh?
dp on October 3rd, 2008
I did a metapod thing a few years back and got a groovy zippered ring binder from it. Plus some useful observations about timing, preparation and so forth. It gave me specific things to keep an eye on.
In the time since I have noticed that succesful independent operators pick and choose the bits that suit, rather than attempting to absorb and reflect all of the standard advice. Put another way, it pays to defend one's quirkiness.
Pete Ashton on October 3rd, 2008
@dp You're right there. I think I might have been a bit too defensive in the past though, celebrating my wacky maverick-ness and that which has led to some appalling time management habits and a real lack of focus. I think it's time to let a bit of sensible business thinking on board now to tidy things up and free me so I can move forward and do even more interesting and wacky things. ;)
catnip on October 3rd, 2008
@anon unless I've misinterpreted your comment, you're implying that one needs a sense-of-humour/fun bypass to run a business.
What a dull world you must live in.
focalplane on October 3rd, 2008
While this cannot be true for everyone, there is a belief that if you are not having fun doing what you do, at least some of the time, you are not doing the right thing by yourself.
There are days when work is the best thing in the world, when ideas come to fruition, when praise and thanks come from unlikely sources, when you don't want to stop what you are doing for fear the magic will come to an end.
Live for those days!
Call when you feel like it! Not sure about the tea, though!
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Existing stock - in its infancy<\/h1>
Sep 24th, 2008<\/abbr><\/span> by Phil Clark<\/a>. <\/address> <\/div> To the Design Museum yesterday to chair a conference entitled Retrofitting & Energy Management<\/a>. I was given a matter of days to prepare for this so was rather relieved that the whole thing went pretty smoothly. The presentations and ensuing discussions on what and how to ad... [Source: http://zerochampion.building.co.uk]
1 comment in conversation. Last comment found September 25.
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New York Times Syndicates ReadWriteWeb
Written by Richard MacManus / September 23, 2008 2:00 PM / 17 Comments « Prior Post The New York Times announced today that it will syndicate ReadWriteWeb content, as part of a re-designed Technology section on its website. Over the coming weeks you will see ReadWriteWeb content incorporated into the Technology section front. This is great news for... [Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com]
48 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 24.
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Congratulations! I just recently subscribed to this blog and I've enjoyed reading it. Hopefully your bigger audience will too.
Posted by: Eric Bock | September 24, 2008 6:13 AM
Congrats! V. exciting!
Posted by: Amy | September 24, 2008 7:10 AM
Congrats and I'm glad all the hard work has paid off. This will be great for the blog to expand its audience and it will really help out the smaller guys you always mention who can't compete financially with the bigger companies to gain larger exposure.
Craig
www.budgetpulse.com
Posted by: Craig | September 24, 2008 8:25 AM
Go Richard Weel done.
Does this mean you have a real job now?
Mary
Posted by: Mary MacManus | September 24, 2008 12:40 PM
Awesome! Well done indeed big brother!
MacManus represent!
Posted by: Linda MacManus | September 24, 2008 5:20 PM
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Realisations
By Suw | life I was at Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Cologne last week and one of the people I met there mentioned that they had noticed I hadn't been blogging so much lately. They're right, I haven't been writing even a fraction as much as I used to, either here on Chocolate and Vodka, or over on Strange Attractor. (I have been trying to write on Kits a... [Source: http://chocolateandvodka.com]
3 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 22.
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Jackie Danicki Says :
September 20, 2008 at 4:42 pm
You are very admirably open, Suw. Huge respect for you here. We learn so much from the crap, eh?
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Suw 09.20.08 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, we do! As I'm fond of reminding myself, we learn the most from our failures because we so rarely examine our successes.
But thank you. It was a bit of a scary post to write. I'm glad I did, though.
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Jackie Danicki 09.21.08 at 2:04 am
Or as a favorite person of mine likes to say - "Don't try to fill the void. All the magic happens in the void." I'm glad you wrote this, too!
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Feeling Listless: tasted like oily chicken - "Investigating the difference between is and isn't."
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1 comment in conversation. Last comment found September 14.
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Adrian said...
There was some nice stuff on offer wasn't there?
We don't have the tents and smells on our doorstep trying to draw us in, but lots of the restaurants in attendance are only a hundred metres or so further down Hope Street... we'll have to see if we can hold out against temptation - at least the stuff by you was largely free ;-)
I wondered if it was one of the tower blocks next to the festival that you lived in. You can't quite see our bikes on your photo - I think they were chained to the fence just off to the bottom right.
4:21 PM
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That first step can be a doozy
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14 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 22.
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alf Says:
September 12, 2008 at 10:23 am
No mention of IE's "Export to Microsoft Excel" contextual menu when right-clicking on HTML tables?
Jon Udell Says:
September 12, 2008 at 12:33 pm
> No mention of IE's "Export to Microsoft
> Excel" contextual menu when right-clicking
> on HTML tables?
Good grief, you're right! How did I not know, or discover, this?
Well, it's a sure bet I'm not alone in my ignorance. This leads to two questions:
1. What uncommon search strategy would have located this nugget?
2. How would the nugget need to have been packaged in order to yield to common search strategies?
Anyway, thanks Alf!
Tim Says:
September 12, 2008 at 6:14 pm
This a good argument for technical folk involved in publishing information to think about what they do, too.
We need (easier) ways to publish data as XML documents or fragments, or at the least to have a way to tag data on pages to make it easily consumable.
Some ideas:
- publish pages like that as XML with an XSLT stylesheet for presentation;
- modify HTML standards to allow some sort of tag, which can contain only table elements within it.
I tend to favor the XML method - if you want the page to be presented as HTML it's fairly trivial to transform XML to HTML and CSS using XSL and we're not heading down the direction of screwing up HTML and browser (in)compatibility.
Jon Udell Says:
September 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm
> I tend to favor the XML method
In general I do too, but it hasn't prevailed so far.
In the case of Wikipedia, there's a much more straightforward possibility. The wikitable markup is essentially CSV with pipes instead of commas:
| 0:00 || [[The Kills]] || "[[Sour Cherry]]"
Why not put a bug next to every table that extracts its contents as CSV or tab-delimited?
What is an Internet operating system? « Jon Udell Says:
September 22, 2008 at 5:50 pm
[...] services woven into the web's fabric were hard to use back then, and in many ways still are. One key enabler for the Internet OS, therefore, would be a framework for defining and deploying [...]
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Growing Up
09.10.08 | Comment? I grew up a little this week. The company I work for and love, Adaptive Path, gave me a promotion. I was surprised… and honored. I'm a director now. An amazing opportunity. While I don't exactly know how this will change my life, I am looking forward to figuring out how I can use my strengths to contribute to a company that has ... [Source: http://90mobilesin90days.com]
3 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 17.
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On 09.11.08 Adrian McEwen wrote these pithy words:
Congratulations!
On 09.11.08 zef wrote these pithy words:
hey that's fantastic - now your ideas have a greater chance of becoming reality!
On 09.17.08 Will wrote these pithy words:
congratulations!!! wonderful news!
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greenormal: Done Do
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2 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 09.
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Adrian McEwen said...
Sounds like it was excellent. I'm now doubly gutted that I didn't make it through the selection process.
Looking forward to watching the videos though.
08 September 2008 11:50
John Grant said...
I wonder how they can take that forward, there were about 70 places and I know there was HUGE (almost Ted scale) interest and demand. It really was a brilliant line up, I've returned totally re-inspired on many fronts. For one thing I need to read the complete works of Alistair McIntosh (Soil & Soul) whose take on human ecology & spirituality alongside all our outward 'doing' be it activism, venturing, teaching or whatever - the question of what sort of future humanity we are working on at a more inner world level - was the outstanding thought I took away. I wonder if there is a way to open it up a bit, in terms of a virtual audience live, although they could never replicate the amazing conversations in a rainy loo cue or fforest forage. I'm probably making it worse, but actually on reflection you had to be there.
09 September 2008 10:13
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Unblocking my brain
I'm going to say it up front - I did not intend this to be a blog post about blogging, but I think that is the way it is going. I don't write as often as I would like. I think I have set the bar too high in my mind in terms of what I should and shouldn't write here. I have all manner of ideas for posts, but they never seem to make their way onto th... [Source: http://knolleary.net]
4 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 22.
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minifig Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I know the feeling. The fact is though, that although journalists like to cast blogging as a facet of journalism, I find it's a lot more useful as a facet of 'being a bit more social'. Rather than keeping the stuff you want to say cooped up in your head, or waiting for it to crop up in conversation with friends, you can pour it out into a blog post and see what happens. I have a lot more real-world discussions about blog posts that I've written than I have comment-conversations.
And, well, I enjoy your blog, and the more you write it the better imho.
James Taylor Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I think this 'style' you refer to has eluded me! I try not to read old posts too often because they have e tendancy to make my skin crawl, but that's what was in my head at the time (more or less) so I accept them.
I think I might have the opposite problem to you on titles. I have a list of drafts with a titles but nothing else! Jo was berating me for my recent choice of topics and told me that the 'Quantum kettle' post sounded my more interesting… unfortunately I have absolutely no clue what that was going to be about!
Joe Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 10:00 am
You have given words to my own frustrations-I couldn't agree more. Except for the split infinitive; I would have re-written that. [Oh dear-I have it bad.]
Adrian McEwen Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who spends forever struggling to write blog posts. If you ever work out what the solution make sure you don't keep it to yourself!
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Soldering by beginner
Posted August 27, 2008 This ad will vanish when you reload. Thingamakits came in the post this morning so I popped into Maplins with the instructions to get supplies and this evening managed to achieve this. If you're a soldering expert and this makes your eyes water then I apologise. Haven't tested it yet. Hope that black patch on the middle-right... [Source: http://peteashton.com]
3 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 23.
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Adrian McEwen on August 27th, 2008
Ah, I'm sure I'll have something that looks worse when I finally break out the soldering iron - I've managed to get by on solderless breadboard for my hardware project so far.
Steve Woodward on August 28th, 2008
It's a massive geeky thrill when you apply power to something you've soldered up, and lights come on and actually works.
I've never built a thingamakit but I soldered up an x0xb0x last year: all I can say is go slowly and check the polar components (if there are any) are in the right way. I had a couple of transistors in backwards in my x0xb0x which stopped it from working, thankfully it didn't fry anything.
Rich Batsford on September 2nd, 2008
good work!
theres a new post on the Project X website detailing some of the little hand held synthesizer units (buzzboxes) which are going to play a role in our Sept 13th event.
At one point, the audience is going to playing all 36 of them!
check out:
http://www.projectxpresents.com/2008/09/02/a-hand-held-synthesizer
and
http://www.projectxpresents.com/participants/the-buzz-boxes/
cheers
Xx
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Private Private | One Man Blogs
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14 comments in conversation. Last comment found August 18.
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Adrian McEwen, Saturday, 16 August 2008:
So the reason it's all okay is because only techie people can jump through the hoops to make it work, and they'll have understood the implications?
I'm not convinced that all the techie users will have understood the implications, but even if I grant you that…
What happens next year when the service is improved and it doesn't need all those steps?
Blue Witch, Saturday, 16 August 2008:
Ah ah! Adrian Mc has come to the same conclusion that I did at some point last night when I was pondering this some more.
My unease is simply where this will lead in the future.
Look at how many small useful things are now mainstream/forced on one if one wants other things - often becuase small company is bought out by a Giant. I do worry about data on individuals being amassed by the likes of Google and Yahoo and connected corporations (who then offer it to the governmint - look at what Te$£o is doing with Clubcard info).
Why do they need it? If they don't need it, why are they storing it as individually identifiable data?
Also, others using it around where one is will make more and more noise pollution as these things seem not to be able to do their stuff quietly. Beep beep beep.
It's not a case of if one doesn't like it, or see a need for it, then don't use it, the chances are it is the future and we will all be assimmilated.
Lyle, Monday, 18 August 2008:
"Most things have an OFF switch"
In reality, no, they don't.
Even "unsubscribe" or "leave" options usually mean that you've left your data on the server somewhere. It's just that you can't get to it any more.
It's *incredibly* rare for any company (on or offline) to actually delete a customer's data when they say they want to leave the company, and not use their services any more.
So no, even if I were to sign up for [xyz] service, then decide it's shit, sign out or 'leave', my username and password are still there, along with any data I uploaded at the time.
Yes, sure, it's all about opting in. But - and this is always my reservation - when I want to opt back out, I should be allowed to do so, and not to leave behind any data. Leaving/Quitting the service should be just that - if I decide to opt back in again at some point in the future, I should have to go through the registration process clean - not to type in "lyle@d4d.co.uk" as my email address, only to be told "That's already in our system".
Peter, Monday, 18 August 2008:
What exactly is the point of everyone knowing where everyone else is? Times I feel very thick. Even kids need some space to grow up away from parental eyes. And if married people always knew where their spouses were then I wouldn't have had a sex life. Called privacy.
Anyway, Gordon - I do love the way you bring these things to us. I'm sure I first read of Flickr here. Now that IS a great app
Peter, Monday, 18 August 2008:
I've read some of the FE comments now, and can hardly believe what I'm seeing. An urge to constantly tell people where you are strikes me as the desperate measure of someone who has no interesting features whatever. Devoid of any personality, they're reduced to screaming, "Look where I am!" the whole live-long day.
Twitter is borderline idiotic… this one goes the whole hog. Afraid I agree with all the naysayers above.
I'm sticking to blogging. At least there's some creativity, some skill involved.
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roof top driving school
August 11, 2008 by fairsnape From green roofs to multi use roofing - this driving school on top of a Tokyo building illustrates creative use of existing buildings. One wonders if there would be any additional insurance requirements for the instructors. Source: Worldchanging Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) building greener roofs Gr... [Source: http://fairsnape.wordpress.com]
1 comment in conversation. Last comment found August 15.
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on August 16, 2008 at 12:10 am1 Adrian McEwen
That's nothing new, the old Lingotto FIAT factory in Turin had a test track on the roof in 1923.
And these days (now that it's no longer a car plant) it's a jogging track for the hotel occupying part of the building. That said, the banked corners were a little too steep for my liking when I tried it out last year - http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/personal/nessun_integrale.html
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Tinker blog italiano!
If you're wanting to practice your italian, Tinker has decided to open an italian blog at tinker.it/it/now. My written italian sucks, so Massimo and the rest of our italian team will be adding content there more than the London office. Enjoy! This entry was posted on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at 17:54 and is filed under tinker.it. You can follow a... [Source: http://tinker.it]
1 comment in conversation. Last comment found August 10.
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Adrian McEwen Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 19:30
Bene! Now I can still get regular doses of Italian despite having just left sunny Torino for rainy (damn English weather) Liverpool.
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Lo-Jacks for mobiles
07.04.08 | 3 Comments In seven days, I will finally rid myself of this N93 abomination-of-a-phone and replace it with a sleek, sexy, new iPhone. I can hardly wait! I mourn the loss of my first iPhone and wonder where that little guy ended up. Did somebody steal it? Is the poor thing lost in a gutter somewhere? It would be cool if phones could know ... [Source: http://90mobilesin90days.com]
3 comments in conversation. Last comment found July 30.
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On 07.04.08 Steven Hoober wrote these pithy words:
Can you be more specific about why you hate the N93? I don't have one, but love my Series 60 and have heard nothing but good about the N93.
On 07.07.08 rachel_b_hinman wrote these pithy words:
The three big issues I have are:
1. Size. It's a big, heavy, clunky phone. The "transformer" form factors make the phone awkward to use.
2. Unintuitive Interface. It's a labyrinth of menus and pulldowns.
3. Overloaded. There are so many applications and features loaded on this phone that go unused.
On a positive note, the camera is quite high quality for a phone.
On 07.30.08 Adrian McEwen wrote these pithy words:
I did wonder about creating something along these lines a while ago, although I was thinking more of a luggage tag that my mobile phone would keep an eye on and warn me if it disappeared.
I figured you could use a little bluetooth device on your bag and have your phone check up on it - then if someone stole your bag, or you left it on the train, the phone would sound the alarm when it went missing.
There'd be nothing to stop you doing it the other way round then, and keep the bluetooth tag on your key-ring or in your pocket and have your phone shout "Hey, don't leave me behind!" if you wandered off without it.
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Olivetti, Una bella società
By Regine on July 19, 2008 7:21 AM Categories: Art in Turin and Milan design vintage Somehow related: Book Review: Ant Farm - Living Archive 7 YOUprison, Some thoughts on the limitation of space and freedom Signs of Life PHotoEspaña: Star of the festival The physical value of sound Image of the day Book Review - Fashionable Technology: The Intersec... [Source: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com]
9 comments in conversation. Last comment found September 22.
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regine
July 20, 2008
Dear Alessandro,
thanks for your feedback but i can assure you that i would not have said that the programme was so un-challenging had i not visited several exhibitions (4? or 5?). olivetti was the only one i found exciting enough to blog about. so far the programme is well-mannered, elegant, a bit stiff and afraid of taking risk or being eccentric. in french we would say "c'est du design à la papa". of course, i don't expect the whole programme to reflect my own tastes but can't help but hope that turin would go a bit crazy once in a while. the info graphic projections on the floor at TO11 are brilliant; the flexibility show is very good indeed, but not exactly impressive. i'm sorry but it takes more than a few big names to make a challenging and thought-provoking event. i must admit that the ex-prison is so amazing that everything pales in comparison. i'm looking forward to see what the rest of the year will bring then
luca barbeni
July 22, 2008
Dear Regine,
you're always so kind and precise in your description and personally i think your definition - "a title that the city is holding fairly decently but without much panache. No critical design, no interaction design, nothing really progressive nor challenging either"- is... perfect.
of course Alessandro Bertin as Press Officer of Torino 2008 WDC is trying to present it on a better light, but as "torinese" and curator i completely agree with you.
My impression about WDC is that it's all focused on some really big event and then it's a desert... as you said - "i'm sorry but it takes more than a few big names to make a challenging and thought-provoking event" -
the desert means also that for example as you may know this year Share Festival was inside the program of WDC, but obviously at this "interactive art and design" event, curated by Bruce Sterling, there was no one officially from WDC to attend it...
alberto d'ottavi
July 24, 2008
Alessandro,
I'm stunned for your answer to Regine. In 18 years of professional journalism, I've never seen such a thing happening. Would you have responded in the same way to a Corriere or Repubblica journalist?
Regine is always very attentive, well informed and never superficial. So I'm pretty sure of her judgement, and absolutely trust her. Actually, I do not "sail" WMMNA: I am subscribed to it, being one of the best blog around, and an european pride
So, Regine: thank you very much for your work and this terrific review. Really great. We had lost the event if you didn't do it
PS In the link you can find my italian blog but if you want here you can find some professional info about me: http://www.albertodottavi.it
alejandro tamayo
July 25, 2008
Sorry to disturb, i just wanted to point out quickly to this incredible image for Olivetti's Valentine type writer I had not seen before and came across by chance when entering a computer room this morning here in Bogotá. Found some more interesting posters here.
regine
July 26, 2008
thanks everyone.
Luca,
i had no idea that no WDC officials judged interesting to attend Share. This is indeed very sad. Many artists have influenced designers today and in the past and vice-versa. But i just saw yesterday that c.steim has been inserted in the official programme so there's light!
Alberto,
grazie mille for your kind words and that Corriere question was in my mind all along, thanks for voicing it!
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rodcorp Says:
June 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
"You come here asking for money, but you don't even know what your [X] or your [Y] are!" and "I'm out." are the signature performatives I believe.
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Hi, this is going to be a comment about things that I haven't attended, but I've failed to find an email address for you, so hope you don't mind me abusing the comments of this entry…
I didn't make it to btween or UVNS, and I didn't make it to the Extenv workshop either. However, I have been playing with my Arduino to get it to monitor my power usage and (thanks to your delicious link for EEML a while back) have been looking into that too.
Are you interested in what happened at that particular workshop, or in Arduino-y sensor stuff more generally?
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Pah! Has he not heard about bkkeepr, which lets you bookmark, add notes and share your book reading with others on your blog? And all via twitter.
Posted by: Adrian McEwen | June 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM
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Posted by: Michael Walsh | June 27, 2008 at 01:21 AM
I totally agree with his point, even if I could just write notes on the pages of a book and then lend it to my friends.
And then file clippings etc in folders.
Like everything else, it's not that the web invents new processes that we never used before - it's simply enabling them to be used in a far faster and more efficient way and reach far more people.
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06.25.08 | Comment? Today during lunch my dear friend and colleague, Kate Rutter, made another brilliant statement that inspired me. We were talking about how exciting it is to be working in mobile right now and to be part of defining what will be next. Kate said she thought part of the problem today is that people think of mobile in terms of hands... [Source: http://90mobilesin90days.com]
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On 06.26.08 Adrian McEwen wrote these pithy words:
I really like the idea that the wand isn't something that steals your attention. That's something I didn't think about when I was pondering similar thoughts on my blog a while back.
On 06.26.08 Xonqsy wrote these pithy words:
Yes, now I can understand the lust relationship between harry potter and his wand.
There's a kind of prediction in this movie, isn't?
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On 07.06.08 nicolas wrote these pithy words:
Perhaps you know it already, Mike Kuniacsky has another perspective about magic wand and ubiquitous computing: http://www.orangecone.com/archives/2006/04/how_to_make_a_m.html
On 07.06.08 rachel_b_hinman wrote these pithy words:
thanks for the reference. good to know wands are possible.
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Filed under: Energy Sector, Politics, Renewables - dale June 25, 2008 @ 12:10 pm The Governments 'Renewable Energy Strategy' comes out tomorrow. Some details leaked in the G this weekend. "Revealed: UK's blueprint for a green revolution" The UK have had big plans before, though not this big - what we've always been missing is the guts to make them ... [Source: http://zerocarbonista.com]
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Indeed. I read the excited proclamations in the Guardian and thought "And…?" If the government started implementing some of this stuff then I'd be impressed.
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Tom, I'm definitely
Submitted by Phil Clark (not verified) on 13 October, 2008 - 10:39.
Tom,
I'm definitely convinced we are at a tipping point. I was encouraged by the event, having been a little nervous to start with whether the industry was ready for an event on such a topic. I came out convinced that the question whether the industry was ready for web 2.0 was not the right one. Much of the industry as we know will be irrelevant if it doesn't - the pachubes/amees/googles/ whatever's next will take over, under the control of consumers.
I'm reading a great book by an American tech thinker called Clay Shirky called Here Comes Everybody which is worth checking out. He tracks the web as a social movement rather than a technology one - it's what people do with these tools that matter rather than what the tools are. That's whats round the corner.
Phil
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That link should be
Submitted by Edward Betts (not verified) on 12 October, 2008 - 14:46.
That link should be http://www.be2camp.com/
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Thanks!
Submitted by tom on 12 October, 2008 - 14:48.
Thanks!
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