My take on the narrative of our mobile lives
The story I wrote for receiver is now out – ‘One Night’. The other authors were: Rudy de Waele, Mark Curtis, Lee Humphreys, Tim Cole, Karenza ...
Category: The Narrative
Hidden in plain sight: Invisible grafitti, subversive tagging, and sub-cultures
In my submission to receiver (coming later this week, I hope), I mentioned how RFID and barcode scanners on phones could allow for an invisible world, right und...
Eh. Kinda quiet lately.
My silence here is not reflective of my mind or self – I’m deep into the last weeks of my holidays, enjoying an amazing summer in Finland, and this ...
A new layer has been added to the social structure of the Web
This is a bit off-topic, but fits in well with some of the things I think about. A while back I got all excited about coComment. To me, it was a way to track th...
The mobile aspect of sensors
In the last few months I’ve picked up a GPS module, a Suunto t6 wrist computer (yes, it can tell time), a heart rate monitor (with the t6), and an accelle...
Municipal WiFi seems so 20th century sometimes
I’m kinda getting tired of all the muni-WiFi talk. First of all, folks talk about it as the data-manna from heaven. Nah, it’s only another access me...
MobHappy on: Never Underestimate the Ingenuity of Fools
I had a boss who would always said to me that one never can never underestimate the ways someone can screw something up (he meant scientists in the lab) –...
Need a good summary of the mobile world?
I mentioned earlier, that I heard two talks from d.Construct 2005. The second one was from Tom Hume. Tom delivers a great overview of the state of the mobile in...
Following a thread on freedom, openess, and the evolution of business
I don’t know how I came to find them, but I was listening to two talks from d.Construct 2005, a grass-roots Web 2.0 (splutter, ahem) conference held in No...
Not surprising: More mobile Internet users than wired in Japan
Just saw this in Infoworld (see link below). It’s not surprising. We all know that the mobile will pass the PC in accessing the Web. It is interesting how...