General
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Managing project assets, deliverables and timelines
Mar
22
2021
UPDATE: this post recommends Evernote for general working document management and record, however since the buyout of Evernote by Bending Spoons in November 2022 and subsequent subscription price hikes, I left Evernote and now would recommend Obsidian…
/ Read MoreSelective democratisation of the arts: who needs your book, song, painting
Feb
08
2021
"When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody" (Fran Lebowitz).
I recently saw this statement in a social media feed. Momentarily I thought someone had singled something pithy out of the current Lebowitz…
/ Read MoreSmart Learning really is a thing
Dec
10
2020
Catching up on current happenings in smart urban creative and learning initiatives using digital interactions to engage with place and the city
I’m following up again on my continuing academic assertion that situated digitally mediated creativity,…
/ Read MoreRepair, re-use, renew, adapt, survive
Nov
30
2020
It is more than a year since I had to reinstall my operating system on my sturdy MacBook Pro (2015 8gb RAM 128gb SSD, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5). Everything still works great, and I celebrate my own sheer bloodymindedness plus desperate need to achieve…
/ Read MoreAlexander Supertramp
Jan
12
2020
A few days ago I watched a film called Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless, and this film has made a very big impact on me which I hadn’t really expected at all. I was going through those lists that you do after Christmas when you’ve…
/ Read MoreBlog, for all our sakes
Sep
19
2019
This post is about how important it is to blog. Perhaps people think it isn’t important to blog, that it’s trivial, it doesn’t matter, it’s duplicating other work, it’s pointless. So I feel it’s useful to list a few reasons why blogging is vital as…
/ Read MoreLaughing Men and Data Libertarianism
Aug
31
2019
This post is about hacker activism, disruption and social iconography. Images used in this article are without permission, serving their profound duty as another link in the chain of hacker identity proliferation.
Today’s news about Jack Dorsey’s…
/ Read MoreOk, we got here, so where do we go next?
Aug
05
2019
Inspired by Trevor’s FB post 5/8/19. He’s watching the Great Hack and is ruminating on behavioural modification, achieved via smartphone ubiquity, attractiveness, addictiveness and so on. Wendy…
/ Read MoreThe World At War
Jun
06
2019
When we were kids we’d watch The World At War, a hugely popular documentary series on TV, narrated by Laurence Olivier. Anyone of my generation will have seen this, we will all remember the…
/ Read MoreLet's talk about phones
May
18
2019
I’ve just upgraded my phone, so thoughts about phones have been in my mind, on a personal level as well as the research. I’ve had a fair few phones over the years but this article isn’t about my historic ownership of phones so I won’t go into the awesome…
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