Episode Forty Seven - Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video
0.0 Station Ident It's 8:36am and I'm at the State Theater Centre in Perth for today's xmedialab conference, the reason I'm in Perth. I've been up since 4am,...
Episode Forty Six - Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this at 1:25pm on Thursday, March 27 in Perth, Australia. I have the next few days in Perth - I'm doing this xmedialab thing...
Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face
0.0 Station Ident I'm at an altitude of thirty six thousand feet travelling at five hundred and sixty one miles per hour, with a head wind of nine miles per...
Episode Forty Four: Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift
1.0 Snow Crashing If you were going to read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash again, which you should, because seminal science fiction and all that, never mind...
Episode Forty Three: Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google
Phooey. A short one, today. I'm on vacation in Missouri with my family and my wife's parents before I fly out to Perth, Australia, to speak at the xmedialab...
Episode Forty Two: OK Google, Initiate Singularity; Random
1.0 OK Google, Initiate Singularity I give Google a hard time. It's easy to, and that's perhaps a lazy position to take, to knock the eight hundred pound...
Episode Forty One: When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler
An experiment - I'm going to start using Amazon Associates links when I link to, well, things on Amazon. There are a couple of references to books in today's...
Episode 40: IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends
1.0 IP and the Federation Look, if Paul Krugman can write a genuine paper about the economic implications of interstellar and relativistic trade[1], then I...
Episode Thirty Nine: On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service
And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming after the good Robin Sloan's intervention. Let's dive straight in. 1.0 On Creativity This particular...
Episode Thirty Eight: Challenge / Response (3)
Previously, on this newsletter: Robin Sloan challenged me to write three consecutive newsletter episodes that had nothing to do with technology or the...
Episode Thirty Seven: Challenge / Response (2)
Previously, on this newsletter: Robin Sloan challenged me to write three consecutive newsletter episodes that had nothing to do with technology or the...
Episode Thirty Six: Challenge / Response
Robin Sloan challenged me to write three consecutive newsletter episodes that had nothing to do with technology or the culture/economy thereof. Flatteringly,...
Episode Thirty Five: Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don't They; On Depression
1.0 Humane Technology I am still preoccupied with the Californian Ideology and what, ultimately, technology is good at, versus what we wish technology were...
Episode Thirty Four: On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts
1.0 On Advertising I have a shtick, a story, about how it is that I came to be involved in advertising. Usually it involves saying something like I never...
Episode Thirty Three: BBC Heaven; Shorts
1.0 BBC Heaven In a past life, I used to do a fair amount of work with broadcasters and tv production companies. The company I founded with my brother, Six...
Episode Thirty Two: The Machine; Route Around Failure; The Most Expensive Selfie
1.0 The Machine Ok, so I caught a little bit of flack for my freshman late-night philosophical rambling about the Internet being the most complicated...
Episode Thirty One: Everything's Made Of Blocks; How The World Works; Advances In Quantification
1.0 Everything's Made of Blocks I have a secret confession: I'm not that into Minecraft. I appreciate it, sure, and understand it (I think) and its appeal,...
Episode 30: Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion
Today's a short one - mainly because my wife and baby have come home from a week away and work has blown up. 1.0 Numbers There are a few numbers that have...
Episode Twenty Nine: That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology
1.0 That Most Peculiar Thing Thinking about other British startups - and please, if you have more examples that help me break out of those that are...
Episode Twenty Eight: Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central
1.0 Only Connect The Pew Research Center, an American non-partisan think tank, recently released the first part of a report covering the changes America has...
