Posted in art, culture, productivity, software on August 26th, 2009 No Comments »
A while back I heard about how Seinfeld managed to write a joke every day: he plotted it on a large wall calendar. In essence, it became a game of ‘don’t break the chain’: make sure there’s a mark on the calendar every day you write a joke.
My personal productivity struggle has been songwriting. I [...]
Posted in art, culture, economics, events, marketing, media, software, workshops on November 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
Back in September I attended clearleft’s dconstruct conference. One presentation in the day really stuck out, and reviewing the slides again today I felt inspired to comment/echo one particular point.
Joshua Porter used some psychology principles to examine how to provide a persuasive user experience. See the slides and audio from his presentation are available, in [...]
Posted in art, events, marketing, media on March 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Big thanks to everyone who came along last night: the weather was really dreadful (extra cake for you lot next time)! For those who attended: a PDF of my slides (9 mb), and the page of exercise links.
I think the event went pretty well: the feedback was positive from geeks and non-geeks alike.
My favourite moment [...]
Posted in art, events, marketing on February 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
So its been a while since I’ve blogged: I’ve had lots to say but not really enough time to do the articles justice. I don’t want to add to the noise that’s already out there: you’ll see from my digg article that it took me a while to process the results and write the article. [...]
Posted in art, culture on July 10th, 2007 No Comments »
So an idea that Sophie and I have had bubbling away for quite some time is starting to get moving. We’re joined by Danny Hope of Hobo Internet in our efforts, who persuaded me over lunch that the key idea was good enough to put some serious effort into.
We’ve started a blog to track our [...]