The other day I got mail asking me to contribute to something called usesthis, a site that asks a (frankly fairly homogeneous) selection of creative workers to describe their “setup” — or,… more →
Adam Greenfield's Speedbirdwrote 2 months ago: The other day I got mail asking me to contribute to something called usesthis, a site that asks a (f … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I confess to being both heartened and frustrated by John Geraci’s new post on “the user … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I really want to recommend to you this Olivier Thereaux post about broken bus systems and how they m … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’m halfway through Reinventing the Automobile at the moment, which I figure represents the fi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the responses I often get after a talk is that, while I may have offered a critical take on e … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to take up a challenge Mike Migurski inadvertently laid down in comments the other day, in … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Google’s recent announcement of App Inventor is one of those back-to-the-future moments that s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been in San Francisco for a day or so, on my way up to O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. T … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Just in case folks here in town are feeling neglected, fear not: we’re doing events here as we … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Crossposted with Do projects. The response to the Systems/Layers walkshop we held in Wellington a fe … more →
wrote 2 years ago: This last installment of our series (I, II) on networked mobility is more of a coda than anything el … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Part II of our exploration of transmobility. I want to caution you, again, that this is very much a … more →
wrote 2 years ago: This is a quickish post on a big and important topic, so I’d caution you against taking any of … more →
wrote 2 years ago: We’re all familiar with the Panopticon, right? The notional prison devised by the eighteenth-c … more →
wrote 2 years ago: We’ve been talking a little bit about what we might gain if we begin to conceive of cities, fo … more →
wrote 2 years ago: So of course Russell’s spot-on here, about the terrible things that await us as poorly-conside … more →
wrote 2 years ago: In the past, I’ve often enough described cities as being “all about difficulty“: T … more →
wrote 2 years ago: When I was up in Umeä last year for the Spring IxD Summit, I happened to spot a book called Carfree … more →
wrote 2 years ago: As I’d mentioned previously, I’m going to be curating a showcase of urbanist iPhone apps … more →