Key Factors in the Future of Social Networking

Some of the issues addressed are being addressed, some are original – I hope. Data Ownership – Data ownership should remain and always remain the property of the individual. Issues of data ownership need to be addressed strongly going forward, no company has the right to own my data. I may grant them permission to […]

Who’s story is it anyway?

The problems with Wikipedia as outlined in the article attached http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1190, highlight one of the greatest problems we face in age of ubiquitous information. It is the question of “Who’s story is it?” However this has always been a problem, it is just that in the present age as we all gain the power to […]

Improving the knowledge stream

As the world changes, and all our knowledge goes online, with insurmountable intellect and nonsense available to all in equal measure, the way we interact with this knowledge must change if we are to derive the maximum benefit from it. New roles and behaviors must emerge to enable us to adapt to this evolving resource […]

Improvements to texting

http://digg.com/comedy/What_Life_Would_Be_Like_Without_Text_Swearing Armstrong and Miller surmise it beautifully in the above link, but why hasn’t someone made a swear bundle download for intuitive texting. While your at it why not add science and techy intuitive bundles and intuition that suits my language, not the language that your programmers choose to make me adhere to. Let technology […]

Power Tools – Tools that shape the world

Everything is a tool of everything else. We are the tools of Wheat and Grass – http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/214, yet they are also the tools of us. The same applys to religion, our bodies, our minds, rocks, everything. Everything uses everything else. Everything is a tool, be it physical and tangible or virtual, notional and ideological. Power […]

Education 2.0 – Forget the 3 Rs, give them many Qs

When are schools and governments going to savvy up to the fact that the 3 Rs alone just don’t cut it any more. Structured thinking and learning by rote, are flawed thinking patterns that will only serve to restrict our social futures (or kids as they’re also known). What’s important is that kids learn to […]

The Internet for Designers, an update

15 days after placing my order with Ponoko, by uploading an EPS file from Illustrator with the right colours of line and shade – remarkably simple instructions and process on site, I have received my first production run of shaped buttons. Why shaped buttons? Well there aren’t many in the marketplace at present and with […]