Archive
  • Hard Times: For Our Times
    50 Pirate Works for Charles Dickens.
  • The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
    Firing a laser through a cloud of ideas.
  • On Now and Next
    A glanceable for radio.
  • Everything is the same only different
    A talk from Books in Browsers on augmentation over enhancement.
  • The New Value of Text
    There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right?
  • Publishing Next: India
    A brief report on ebooks and the future of publishing in the subcontinent.
  • Secret Servers
    The architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.
  • The System of the World: Rorschmap Redux
    On the insistence of the network.
  • Won’t somebody think of the children?
    On Laptops & Looms, and generations.
  • Readmill Beta Invites
    The social reading service evolves.
  • Rorschmap
    Here be strange shapes and shadows on the land.
  • Items received by post
    A number of book-shaped things I have recently received.
  • Where the F**k Was I? (A Book)
    I made another book; an atlas written by robots.
  • Robot Flâneur
    On seeing the city through other eyes.
  • Open Bookmarks II
    What is social reading?
  • Regarding the library with envious eyes
    On the machines that read the books.
  • Dear Publishing
  • The Silence Before, The Context Now
    On online communication, its past and its weight.
  • London Book Fair 2011
    A debate and a panel, on Monday 11th.
  • The Author of Everything
    A story about digitisation.
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