There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills Good things come out of difficulty. It takes at least 8 years to become fluent in a foreign language and 7 years to become an architect After all that time you’ve earnt it. Learning these skills takes time and the only way to do it… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
With computers at our disposal we’ve given some of our weirdest habits a new home. Fetishes and kinky pleasure aside, there is nothing stranger or more nonsensical than collecting. A brief history of collecting Just think of the monkeys. Every time evolution and human behaviour get a mention i go back to that scene in… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
The advantage of being lost in a crowd is anonymity. My last post explored the level of privacy that we’ve lost over the past 20 years, and how (for good or bad) we can no longer hide within a crowd. Companies and governments are recording more information about us, and a lot of us aren’t… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
August 2011 in London was ablaze, as rioters trashed parts of the city. This time, it wasn’t a typical riot. 20 years ago, rioters were either arrested at the scene or disappeared back into the fabric of society. Not any more, it seems. CCTV, press photographers and even RIM, the makers of Blackberry, provided the… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
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Last week was the first time I’ve felt vulnerable online for ages. I stupidly fell for a phishing attack and found my Twitter account sending out hundreds of messages to friends, followers and utter strangers. Fortunately they were pretty benign (“is this you in this photo?”), followed by a link to a faked Twitter homepage,… [Read more…]
June 20, 2011
Both NMA and, NET magazines run features where they ask people in the advertising and web industries for their top 5 websites. With the internet being a sprawling mass of oddities and curiosities, I still love a good personal recommendation. This took me to newshelton.com/wet/dry, which complies assorted thought pieces from across the web. I found… [Read more…]
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April 23, 2012
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