Spime is a pretty stupid sounding word (like most neologisms), but it describes an increasingly important concept - they are objects that can be digitally tracked through their entire life-cycle. There’s a little more to them than that, because the man that coined the term, Bruce Sterling, is a big techno-hippy, and felt the […]
It’s a very interesting piece by Matt Webb on Attenuation, the process by which we filter and connect information to what it useful and relevant to us. I’m flagging it specifically because it’s such a big and important topic, and one I think any communications professional should give a lot of thought to.
And also, […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about soap boxes, and getting one’s message across, and basically how people can tell others the things they care about and generally get heard. And then I read Desolation Jones #3, and it got me to thinking. This essay is very much only a start, but I wanted […]
Here’s an interesting one, that’s going to merit a bit more thought. Via lesscode, an interview with Alan Cooper, the big VB fella, in which he talks about the idea that “code is not an asset”, suggesting instead that the asset is actually “experience and knowledge that the people who have built your code […]
So, I’m sitting here in the office, bored out of my mind, attempting to upgrade someone else’s stinkingly poor spaghetti-logic code, to make it do something it was explictly designed not to do, and really, just wishing I had the sort of job where I was developing interesting shit, rather than crap for a company […]
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