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- Well, What Would You Do? … How People Work, Live! Matt Jukes will be joining me on Friday 10 July at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm London for the inaugural How People Work, Live …
- A Very Short Announcement … what happened, and what comes next is this Friday 7 March 2025 at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern, and 5pm London. I’ll be joined by Waldo Jaquith, Angelica …
- Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community … Self-Publishing, and You Can, Too is on Thursday, 15 February, at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, and 7pm London. Registration opens at ~12:30pm PT today, Thursday 8 …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Infrastructure and Systems is on Thursday, 8 February, at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, and 7pm London. Our guests will be: Deb Chachra , engineering professor and the author of …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … Blocking is Good, Actually is tomorrow, Friday 2 February 2024, at 12pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, and 8pm London. I’m co-hosting it with Superbloom’s Georgia Bullen …
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers … unjust consequences – Bentham’s Gaze ( archive.is ), Information Security Research & Education, University College London (UCL), 30 June, 2022 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ Computer says no - Wikipedia ( archive.is ) ↩︎ A black man was …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … I want to take my family to London, it’s going to be two of us and a child of age 12. We’re thinking of January 30th …
- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) … Next Thursday, 2 November, 2023, free and on Zoom at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern and 5pm London. Come join us ! 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Hallway Track 005 The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation , with Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant onThursday 9 November 2023, 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern, 11pm London, registration …
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet … 002 Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks on Friday 20 October, 1pm Pacific | 4pm East Coast | 9pm London Darius Kazemi , internet artist; maintainer of Hometown: a Mastodon fork …
- Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve … Thursday 12 October, 2023, 7am Pacific, 10am East Coast, 3pm London. Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet . 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Shakespeare …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … early adopter "this is what I had for breakfast in the Bay Area/London in 2006 people who have written books Twitter tech media/journalist Twitter design twitter …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … PlayStation also have Dreams , from the frankly totally illogically underrecognied Media Molecule studio in London which if I'm honest is pretty much "what if you could make …
- The no-good horrible terrible ineffectual gosh-darn embarrassing website of the democrats dot org … Axonometric Back in 2015, Transport for London replied to a Freedom of Information request asking for maps of Tube interchange stations with eight Tube lines worth of axonometric …
- Things that I wish existed; HIG but not Hygge; Stages of Digital Transformation, Again; Good Enough Digital Transformation … see the London Business School on good enough leadership . See also the counterpoint on how good enough is really not good enough in leadership, which honestly these days …
- Actually, It's About... … 369.49 kgCO2eq! That sounds like a lot! This top hit for " what's the CO2e for flying from New York to London " puts that flight at 509 …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … digital" stuff in agency land, first as as senior creative at W+K London, and then as a Creative Director at W+K Portland. I've seen briefs …
- s11hiatus03/05: Challenge / Response (3) … I am in London, in John Lewis, the department store on Oxford Street and I miss my son so badly. On this work trip, and every work trip …
- s11hiatus02/05: Challenge/Response (2) … hours straight, will listen to it all the way from New York to London and come out of it not sick of the music but practically worshipping it …
- How Much Should You Own, Anyway? … underground, in the manner of the extravagant downwards expansion of luxury property in London?). The reinforcement is simple: if, in the future, you want to answer the latest …
- 3D engines eating the world; Jobs for computers; Digital Transformation by Degree … So in London, there's this project called Crossrail. It is... a rail project... that will cross London from west to east. Crossrail is one of these things …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … The name and rebrand was courtesy of Wolf Olins, now widely known for its (in my opinion) brilliant London 2012 work. But then the change to Monday only …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … I had a frankly stupendous story from a reader of getting my newsletter and reading it on the tube/on the way home from work in London and …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … like "big European cities before modern policing", in the way that "18th century London or Paris were awash with sin and prone to mob violence, because they were …
- Three Things … I met a bunch of great ones working near TV in London, and again in Portland when I was at Wieden+Kennedy. Because the schedule and moving parts …
- A small collection of things … making myself feel better about an early January tweet about Lloyd’s of London announcing availability of social media reputation insurance, colloquially known as Main Character Insurance . Internet …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … Notably, the launch video for Wizards Unite was a super exciting race around London with wand effects and monsters coming in and everything and the actual game is …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … of London fit for the 21st Century, a ring of glittering Britannia-Class satellites visible around the world in the night sky, “designed to ensure London’s financial …
- Aren't we all just so tired … Every voice assistant is dumb , fight me (Siri on creating appointments and sending calendar invitations to people(!), not even the thing about Which London Is The Relevant London …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World , which is not only a good read but also has …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … Maybe “a nice hotel in London or an office in Tokyo or even in the first-class lounge of the LATH, the Los Angeles/Tokyo Hypersonic” and the …
- Jeremy Bearimy … what, did something happen where they weren’t supposed to be vulnerable to hacking anymore? Transport for London is testing new designs for information boards if you’re …
- Do Better … involving someone I’d known when I was in the games industry in London. From what I knew and saw then, and what I learned recently, I believed …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … In response, and via Bjorn Larsen ( @bjorn ), we also have: * Whitney Wolfe Herd (founder and CEO of Bumble , the dating app); and * London Breed (current mayor of the …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … THIS IS A CRANE-BASED CONCRETE BATTERY SYSTEM! 2.0 And finally… * As London Gatwick turns to whiteboards to display flight information when display screens fail, operations managers …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … They range from US DHS asking for FourSquare history to help with a customs form (2017 called, HA, it says), the London Met Police asking to update your …
- Interesting Times … plane, so it’s a *bit* like, I dunno, going from Brighton to London. Of course, it costs around $150-300 depending on when I get the tickets …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … Some thoughts. [0] well, what other kind of tweets would you expect? [1] What Is Pokemon Go? - The Atlantic [2] Nike Turns London Into a Game Board to …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? … go to Freshfields or Herbert Smith or any other Magic Circle firm in London I'm going to get pretty good legal advice. I mean, I should do …
- If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right? … The mass transit system (integrating with the other ones that make up London and its suburbs) has a single source of digital truth [citation kind of provided], a …
- Black Design … companies like Yahoo! and flickr - is a new 'design horror' studio based in London's trendy Silicon Roundabout district. Studio principals Nathan, Tom, Dan and Karla ("there's …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … Asking Londoners. Is it really a bit like that movie where the alien species comes in and destroys everyone? Is the natural state of London Pandora from Avatar …
- On Advertising. Again. … unit of delivery - Russell Davies [5] The strategy is delivery - Transformation Beyond Technology / London Strategy Unit [6] Bits or pieces?: A pet favourite - Inertia - Simon Wardley [7] Death …
- Typing, Continued … The Age of Ultron from London-based Territory Studio[5]. Vinh pretty much gets to the point when he says: "While Territory’s work is impressive, this project …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now 0.0 Sitrep 4:18pm, Central Standard Time on 29 November on the way to London Heathrow, from Kansas City via Mineapolis St-Paul, leading a Code for …
- The Thing About Brand Advertising … Which means this is all well and good until... [1] The Unit of Delivery [2] The Strategy Is Delivery - London Strategy Unit The Wheels Fall Off Ben Thompson …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … digital" stuff in agency land, first as as senior creative at W+K London, and then as a Creative Director at W+K Portland. I've seen briefs …
- It's Too Hot; Monitor This … There are *tonnes* of better agencies in London that could've and would've done even a marginally better job at this. There are tonnes of ways that …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … when I started at Wieden in Portland, I had kind of been doing the job as an Advertising Person at their office in London, and had even come …
- WATCH; BERG … BERG was one of those startups that, I feel, a whole bunch of people in London were jealous of. And not just a startup, really - one that was …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … And that's just the malware - what could Transport for London do with a smartphone based mesh network? [1] Somebody [2] Maneki Neko - Bruce Sterling [3] The Latest …
- "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … that* inconceivable, though. Fear motivates so much in the wake of a threat. London's Ring of Steel, so many years ago. NMD. TSA and wholesale terahertz screening …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … A long time ago - back when I still lived in London, I think, I remember going round to BERG's offices and Matt Jones talking about the whole …
- Yes, And... … Science fiction right now is really, really good at being a wanky London estate agent: showing us a bunch of horrible properties at the beginning to sap our …
- Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … From my Wikipedia-reckoning, if you don't count Hammurabi, it took the Great Fire of London in 1666 to institute what's regarded as a modern building …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … every now and then, things haven't improved much in the more non-London parts). But, you know, it's data. If you want, you can log all …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … And I remember, a long time ago, sitting in a talk at Channel 4 in London and hearing about how the education system - a Victorian innovation - still treated …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … And when we lived in London, we made great use of apps like London Tube Deluxe by Malcolm Barclay, in the pre-Citymapper days, that would help you …
- Only 10%; This Hasn't Benefitted Ordinary Lives As Such … where he tries to open a business bank account in the City of London[2]: "Last week I spent a frustrating morning trying to open a business bank …
- To Serve; Odds … Already, talk of Uber and its ilk "winning", states purchasing mass-transit services from private companies (so, like the UK, then, with Transport for London specifying services and …
- When You're Tired Of Cities … thinks that instead of bemoaning the difficulty about going back to somewhere like London or joining the bandwagon and nodding furiously whenever anyone says the Bay Area is …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … A five person team - led by the agency's MD of mobile and staffed by two people in London and another two in New York is going to …
- The Material (1) … I have fond memories of the one in London. You get big machines in it. I wonder what a museum of software engineering would like, if it tried …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Wikipedia reckons that the test takes about three years to pass, and if you've ever been to London, it's the process by which you *should* be …
- Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally … story (apart from some instances, like where Thor takes the tube and the London tube map is, shall we say, topographically challenged). But you get a couple of …
- Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS … Many of us who started blogging in the late nineties met up for the first time in a pub in London and remained close friends ever since, and …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt … And yet, about four years ago, I started on an adventure at W+K London, and then nine months later, moved out to Portland to work at the …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … The UK's experiencing that problem with London, as I wrote about earlier, where London's turning into some sort of supermassive black hole that is literally sucking …
- It Just Stops … I still remember their delight when they found out we'd be moving to the 'states from London, and even more so when we were able to tell …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … Another way of looking at London's influence, especially if you're not from the UK, is by looking at the various hubs that London serves. For example …
- Recall; ATMs; … It turns out, and it feels, that London and San Francisco are increasingly getting the raw end of the deal. London because, realistically, no one can afford to …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … When we lived in London, we made pretty good use of our local library system in Wandsworth, not least of which because while we were there the London …
- a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field … algorithm rather than getting the algorithm to fit the people[1] in a London Tube ad about Google Voice Search for mobile (and we all remember learning Graffiti …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … You've got a place with low supply and high demand and also, for someone coming from London, an absolutely god-awful user experience that, I think, appears …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … I'd been seeing a therapist weekly in London before I moved to the US, but it had been nearly two years since I'd seen someone. What …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … In the video, they talk about "light, charming, friendly products" One of the projects I was lucky to work on at W+K's London office was the …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … It’s from London, but it was born digital, on the Internet. The New Aesthetic is a “theory object” and a “shareable concept.” A theory object and a …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … 2.0 But What Is The User Need? There is a window, at the offices of the Government Digital Service, in London, where someone has taped a form …
- Challenge / Response (3) … I am in London, in John Lewis, the department store on Oxford Street and I miss my son so badly. On this work trip, and every work trip …
- Challenge / Response (2) … hours straight, will listen to it all the way from New York to London and come out of it not sick of the music but practically worshipping it …
- The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice … Have a great weekend - it's my son's first birthday party and I have very, very good friends visiting from London - and I'll see you again …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … I've been working in capital-A advertising for nearly over 3 years now - just under a year at Wieden+Kennedy London, and coming up to 3 years …