Quote of the Month
When reading a book or even a sentence, there is a beginning step. A book and a sentence both have a beginning that is formally denoted. There is a middle, and, hopefully, there is a solution to a...
View ArticleQuote of the Month
What exactly is an interface anyway? In its simplest sense, the word refers to software that shapes the interaction between user and computer. The interface serves as a kind of translator, mediating...
View ArticleQuote of the Month
The defining element of the desktop GUI is the icon, which, although it often has a name, is above all a picture that performs or receives an action. These actions give the icon its meaning. As...
View ArticleBruce Sterling at Transmediale
Here’s a video of a presentation made by Bruce Sterling on 6th February 2010 at the Transmediale Futurity Now! festival in Berlin. The theme is “atemporality,” the sense that new media has moved us...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Future of Books?
Craig Mod has just published a thoughtful, insightful, and beautifully-presented essay on the future of books in the digital era, using the emergence of devices like the Kindle and the iPad as his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Computational Turn
On Tuesday 9th March I attended the Computational Turn conference at Swansea University. Very good it was too, with the wide range of speakers packed into a single day all having a diverse set of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jim Reekes
Jim who? Jim Reekes is the gentleman who designed many of the Mac system sounds including that start-up sound. This a recent interview with him (posted February 11th of this year) from a Dutch TV...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chris Crawford: Masterclass On Interactivity
About three weeks ago now—yeah, I know, but I’ve been busy—Chris Crawford delivered a ‘Masterclass On Interactivity’ at Swansea Metropolitan University. Chris began with a light-hearted look back at...
View ArticleBritish Sounds
The facts: 1969 made-for-TV film by Jean-Luc Godard. The voice-overs are largely adapted from the Communist Manifesto. Godard claimed that the “news presenter” text was adapted from speeches by...
View Article
