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How badly do you want an iPad?
The iPad is something I’m more curious about than lustful for. I want to see how it works, how it feels to use and what difference it’ll make to the way I do things.
I’ll be interested to see how it does at conferences, for example. Whether the format of a tablet is a useful thing to have due to weight and room.
Also, I want to see how media is rendered and if it really does change anything about the way I interact with content.
So, not hugely badly, but I’ll be happy to try it out. I imagine it might grow on me though.
Digital Economy Bill
A couple weeks ago, I wrote to my MP to raise concern for the so-called "washup" of last-minute legislation being used to push through the now highly-controversial "Digital Economy Bill." My reasons to write are several, and I will devote some more time to explain...
Emotions, intuition, consciousness. Which is the better guide?
Guide to what?
Emotion is for interactions with people and yourself. I feel a certain way, and I have to question why and to what extent. I feel a reaction to or perceive the emotions of another, and I modify my behaviour.
Intuition, I don’t understand completely. I see it almost as an inclination, a set of skills or simply things one has practiced more. I’m intuitively perceptive to rhythm (That’s how I see it, anyway), so I suppose this would be a good guide to specific things, like playing music or creativity. An artist subconsciously guides their medium, intuitively placing and removing and creating and forming. Thinking too hard breaks the instinct.
Consciousness is being aware. Without this, all other perception simply doesn’t exist. It’s like light: no matter how healthy your eyes may be, or how quick your reflexes or tuned your appreciations and intuitions, you cannot see without it. I suppose all other senses feed into this, and it’s up to our minds to sort it, to ponder it, to make decisions.
Open… and Mobile?
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I know what you're thinking: "He's going to say Data!" Well, I might do at some point, but I was going to say "Days". Last month, Talis flung open its doors to 30 or so folk who were interested...
I WANT MY FACEBOOKS BACK NOW PLZ!!!1!
Following a tweeted link to “the funniest comment thread ever”, I spent a few minutes laughing at the expense of hundreds of confused Facebookers. They had been leaving comments on a ReadWriteWeb blog post about a recent venture with AOL to share login access. It took...
church 2.0: a sound
I have been struck, at various times over the years, that the Church isn’t all it’s cut out to be. I mean this almost literally. I’m thinking of the “church” as a pattern—like a tailor uses—of how to live, just now. It’s not that it can’t be altered, embellished,...
Talis: We’re Excited
This post was originally published on Nodalities Blog. The Talis offices, for the past few weeks, have been awash with geeky excitement—that kind of near giddy excitement that comes with eager expectation. We've all been waiting for something important. For some, this...
How long ago were the ’90s?
I'm sat downstairs in my house in Shropshire, sipping Rioja and listening to Green Day and trying to imagine music which more resonates with the decade in which we of Orwell's blight came of age. This is the last year of the '90s being only last decade. Everyone born...
Postcode Paper: What you can do with the right data.
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Last week, I met up with some folks who are building some amazing things with public data. After seeing their Postcode Paper project, I was left with the lasting impression that given the raw...