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Recent work for the Observer, WIRED and ICON.

The architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.

On Laptops & Looms, and generations.

No New Normal – The Value Web Seriously good stuff from Eoin Purcell. Go read: disintermediation, and why the chain isn't going to be repopulated, it's going to be reconfigured. The search for a minimum viable record – O’Reilly Radar Open Library's George Oates on the pursuit of concise categorization. Old, Weird Tech: The Penguincubator, […]

Alfie on Facebook "Waterstones FAIL! Bought eBook. Had to install Adobe Digital Editions *and* sign up for an Adobe account. The reason I had to create an account was expressly so that books bought could be shared on multiple devices. Does it work in iBooks? Does it work in Stanza? Does it work in Kindle? […]

On online communication, its past and its weight.

Borges and Sharing; Instagram and Death.

Printing Facebook | Print A Poster Of Your Facebook Friends "All your friends ready for your real life wall." AbeBooks: The A to Z of the Shortest Book Titles Lovely list from Abe Books. Want them all. (And want to write a book called B, D, F, I, J, L or etc.)

Saturday was the second Papercamp. There are some write-ups appearing online already, such as these from Ben and Roo, as well as photos on Flickr. I couldn’t make it unfortunately, but Matt suggested I create some briefs to get people going, and so I did. Apparently, there weren’t many formal responses to them (with this […]

This post is going to talk about sex quite a lot. I’m going to assume you’re all OK with that. For me, technology, literature and sex are all bound up together, and this entanglement can be traced back to a single book: JC Herz’s Surfing on the Internet (Little, Brown; 1994). An exploration of the […]