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Meme Me
Mar
09
2019
Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts...
/ Read MoreRight Click, Refresh
Feb
01
2019
I once had an acquaintance who had a saying: “right click, refresh”. This was around 2003 or 2004, maybe even earlier. It was before flat screen monitors were common, when they were still expensive, back when we all used to have big white PC towers,…
/ Read MoreHow to navigate your digital life
Jan
01
2019
“How to navigate your digital life, or, how to avoid death by a thousand digital cuts.”
Recent events have made me consider deeply how digital life affects each of us and how we navigate these unknown terrains, attempt to manage our interactions,…
/ Read MoreThe Twittersphere Highway
Dec
30
2018
I’ve seen friends having issues with Twitter conversations recently, experience the horror of public shaming, the ritual of punishment by RT. The addiction of argument, justification, righteous ire point scoring. It’s an interesting phenomena, what…
/ Read MoreDepressed teachers, neoliberal commodification and coffee
Nov
22
2018
I attended a lively symposium yesterday with speakers from various universities and nationalities: Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus, Malt...
/ Read MoreThe impermanent landscape of now
Jan
11
2018
The problem is that what I see today is not what will be here tomorrow. Like watching a river, the water flowing by, it is not only the content of digital streams that is perpetually in beta (Garnett & Ecclesfield, 2011, p. 9), but the whole landscape…
/ Read MoreI Was Here
Dec
10
2015
Two systems that basically do the same thing, track where we are and who might be around. One is the radar dome, the other is an Inukshuk, at Dingli Cliffs. I just thought that was so cool.
When we design digital application interfaces and experiences,…
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