Weblog Posts

  • August 17th 2004 — It's been a cliched week
  • August 17th 2004 — Why specs matter [dive into mark]
  • August 17th 2004 — Pirates of the Tatooine
  • August 18th 2004 — Fork in Socket: Droom Zaacht
  • August 18th 2004 — Flickr: Using the Organizr
  • August 20th 2004 — Tigermoth, August 19th 2004
  • August 21st 2004 — You good, good people
  • August 22nd 2004 — Patrick's Stag Do, Islington
  • August 25th 2004 — Flickr Rainbow
  • August 26th 2004 — Flickr Rainbow II
  • August 26th 2004 — Pizza
  • August 31st 2004 — Turning Architects into Programmers
  • August 31st 2004 — Turning Architects into Programmers II
  • September 1st 2004 — Turning Architects into Programmers III
  • September 1st 2004 — Future Digital Music Distribution and Production
  • September 2nd 2004 — On Hifi Separates in Information Space and Gadget Space
  • September 3rd 2004 — A Brief History Of Me
  • September 28th 2004 — Architects, Social Networks and Hypertext
  • September 30th 2004 — Computing for Emergent Architecture
  • September 30th 2004 — Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
  • October 3rd 2004 — Being In The World
  • October 9th 2004 — Charles Forman aka SetPixel
  • October 15th 2004 — Housekeeping - Moving Hostname
  • October 18th 2004 — Fire Poi!
  • October 21st 2004 — Metadata for the Masses
  • October 25th 2004 — Flickr and PHP
  • October 31st 2004 — Processing Sketches
  • November 1st 2004 — Plasticbag Visualisation
  • November 3rd 2004 — Agents, Behaviour, Emergence and Embodiment
  • November 16th 2004 — Just-A-Tool Fallacy (Seymour Papert quote)
  • November 17th 2004 — Stigmergy: Where Are We?
  • November 21st 2004 — datascape
  • November 24th 2004 — Destination: Whipping Trees
  • November 30th 2004 — On The Internet: A Social-Software-centric Summary
  • December 4th 2004 — 15 Megs of Fame
  • December 5th 2004 — Weighted Links as Positive Feedback
  • December 7th 2004 — Flickr Favourites
  • December 7th 2004 — Shared Wisdom & Experience
  • December 21st 2004 — Listening Post
  • December 21st 2004 — Funny Looking Soup
  • January 5th 2005 — Extispicious... and Delicious
  • January 5th 2005 — Belated Christmas Trees
  • January 7th 2005 — Ice Skating at Somerset House, London
  • January 14th 2005 — First Workshop of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN)
  • January 18th 2005 — 21st century fridge magnets?
  • January 24th 2005 — Ruby on Rails? PHP + Smarty? C# / VB.NET? Something Java-esque? Python? Perl?
  • February 3rd 2005 — PLAN | ICA, Day 1
  • February 3rd 2005 — Some thoughts arising from PLAN, and elsewhere
  • February 3rd 2005 — PLAN | ICA, Day 2
  • February 8th 2005 — STUPID new sticker at the station...
  • February 9th 2005 — Many Well-Meaning Workers Making Web Machines Work Marvellously Well
  • February 11th 2005 — Half-baked thoughts on Social Network Visualisation for Flickr
  • February 11th 2005 — Half-baked thoughts on Social Network Visualisation for Flickr
  • February 23rd 2005 — Simulation for the Social Scientist
  • February 23rd 2005 — Journal for Patterns Recognised
  • March 9th 2005 — Arbeit Macht Frei
  • March 14th 2005 — Wireless London: Future Urban Infrastructures #3: Social Exoskeletons
  • March 29th 2005 — DARTS! is good
  • April 9th 2005 — Grand National
  • April 10th 2005 — Tigermoth
  • April 11th 2005 — Unclassifiable
  • April 12th 2005 — Pockets
  • April 20th 2005 — Dorkbot London tonight
  • April 26th 2005 — averyveryverylongcadillac
  • April 27th 2005 — When the light is "Just So"
  • May 6th 2005 — Clayton James Cubitt meets Processing, Jim meets Flickr
  • May 8th 2005 — Teesside music...
  • June 3rd 2005 — Spore: Idiom Collision
  • June 3rd 2005 — Threadr
  • June 21st 2005 — Two Things
  • June 28th 2005 — Mud Dragon!
  • June 28th 2005 — DARTZ! with a Z
  • June 28th 2005 — Glastonbury Flickr Patterns
  • July 7th 2005 — London Blasts
  • July 10th 2005 — Release Early, Release Often
  • July 19th 2005 — RupertSpace
  • July 20th 2005 — Dorkbot and Open Tech
  • July 21st 2005 — dorkbotlondon
  • July 22nd 2005 — An Observation
  • August 3rd 2005 — Overheard Passwords #1
  • August 9th 2005 — txt msg bg
  • August 17th 2005 — Learning By Doing
  • August 18th 2005 — Cheese, Stinky... Challenging, Emotion
  • August 23rd 2005 — Late to the party
  • August 31st 2005 — Headed to San Francisco: Will Code for Food
  • September 7th 2005 — On How It Is
  • September 28th 2005 — By Popular Request...
  • October 4th 2005 — Another Shameless Plug for DARTZ!
  • October 7th 2005 — Don't you hate it when people answer your rhetorical questions?
  • October 14th 2005 — Thunderbird Motel, Bishop, CA
  • November 1st 2005 — I don't want Blogger, I want del.icio.us
  • November 12th 2005 — Design Engaged 2005
  • November 20th 2005 — On Oculo- and Osteo-validation Methods
  • December 14th 2005 — Hard Bloggin' Scientist
  • December 14th 2005 — Joined Up Thinking
  • December 23rd 2005 — On Personalisation and International Arts and Crafts
  • January 2nd 2006 — Fearlessness
  • January 4th 2006 — Sufficiently Advanced Technology
  • January 4th 2006 — King's Cross Stories #1
  • January 11th 2006 — Tethered Freedom
  • January 20th 2006 — Come The Apocalypse: Fortress Iceland?
  • January 28th 2006 — Bleigiessen
  • February 1st 2006 — chatbots for to-do list management?
  • February 13th 2006 — If you're reading this, then I've succesfully moved webhost
  • February 19th 2006 — Squashed
  • February 20th 2006 — MySpace needs an API
  • February 20th 2006 — MySpace needs an API
  • February 20th 2006 — Build a Better Bloglines
  • February 20th 2006 — Flickr Zoom
  • February 20th 2006 — Ning Things
  • February 20th 2006 — Thing Ladder (designed for cloning and specialisation)
  • February 22nd 2006 — Oversight
  • March 1st 2006 — Find Me In Dead Tree: AD and Google Maps Hacks
  • March 3rd 2006 — UVA Diptych
  • March 16th 2006 — The X of Y
  • March 17th 2006 — Glastobury Barrel Walker
  • March 17th 2006 — MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation
  • March 29th 2006 — Similar Music to Saul Williams
  • March 29th 2006 — ModRewriting for Blogger Archives
  • April 3rd 2006 — Gnarls Barkley Download Hits Number 1
  • April 3rd 2006 — Monopoly Google Map?
  • April 13th 2006 — OpenGeoData
  • April 13th 2006 — JavaAIMbot
  • April 21st 2006 — Free The Sweek
  • April 29th 2006 — E:vents
  • May 8th 2006 — Reboot 8.0
  • June 18th 2006 — Flock
  • June 28th 2006 — The Month Ahead and The Weekend Past
  • June 29th 2006 — Reboot 8 and Pecha Kucha
  • July 9th 2006 — Merged Weblog and P5 Sketchbook
  • July 9th 2006 — Merged Weblog and P5 Sketchbook
  • July 10th 2006 — London Techa Kucha Night, 25th July
  • July 10th 2006 — London Techa Kucha Night, 25th July
  • July 12th 2006 — FAO Manchester. Futuresonic imminent!
  • July 12th 2006 — FAO Manchester. Futuresonic imminent!
  • July 13th 2006 — Cally This and Caledonian That
  • July 13th 2006 — Cally This and Caledonian That
  • July 17th 2006 — Mark Magazine #3
  • July 17th 2006 — Mark Magazine #3
  • July 17th 2006 — The Personal Touch #1
  • July 17th 2006 — The Personal Touch #1
  • July 17th 2006 — The Personal Touch #2
  • July 17th 2006 — The Personal Touch #2
  • July 18th 2006 — Wordpress Questions
  • July 18th 2006 — Wordpress Questions
  • July 18th 2006 — Double Take
  • July 18th 2006 — Double Take
  • July 18th 2006 — Why Wait?
  • July 18th 2006 — Why Wait?
  • July 20th 2006 — Techa Kucha next Tuesday
  • July 20th 2006 — Techa Kucha next Tuesday
  • July 26th 2006 — Techa Kucha Night becomes Ask Later
  • July 26th 2006 — Techa Kucha Night becomes Ask Later
  • July 26th 2006 — Ask Later #1
  • July 26th 2006 — Ask Later #1
  • July 26th 2006 — Ask Later slides and notes
  • July 26th 2006 — Ask Later slides and notes
  • July 27th 2006 — Ask Later #1 Video
  • July 27th 2006 — Ask Later #1 Video
  • July 27th 2006 — Stateside
  • July 27th 2006 — Stateside
  • August 10th 2006 — Footprints
  • August 10th 2006 — Footprints
  • August 14th 2006 — Home, kind of...
  • August 14th 2006 — Home, kind of...
  • September 25th 2006 — Euro Foo
  • September 25th 2006 — Euro Foo
  • September 25th 2006 — Software that speaks for itself, or: are you sure you need Powerpoint?
  • September 25th 2006 — Software that speaks for itself, or: are you sure you need Powerpoint?
  • September 26th 2006 — DARTZ! - St. Petersburg
  • September 26th 2006 — DARTZ! - St. Petersburg
  • September 27th 2006 — Nothing is taboo here on the edge of science...
  • September 27th 2006 — Nothing is taboo here on the edge of science...
  • September 30th 2006 — Historical Blips
  • September 30th 2006 — Historical Blips
  • October 2nd 2006 — Studio 60 - a plea for short seasons!
  • October 2nd 2006 — Studio 60 - a plea for short seasons!
  • October 2nd 2006 — Mapstraction
  • October 2nd 2006 — Mapstraction
  • October 6th 2006 — Pair Blogging is the new Extreme Programming
  • October 6th 2006 — Pair Blogging is the new Extreme Programming
  • October 6th 2006 — Google Earth London Update
  • October 6th 2006 — Google Earth London Update
  • November 16th 2006 — Consolidation and Relocation: Leaving London for San Francisco
  • November 16th 2006 — Consolidation and Relocation: Leaving London for San Francisco
  • November 16th 2006 — Ask Later #2
  • November 16th 2006 — Ask Later #2
  • November 20th 2006 — Don't Pick Up The Phone
  • November 20th 2006 — Don't Pick Up The Phone
  • November 20th 2006 — Typists = £30 per week
  • November 20th 2006 — Typists = £30 per week
  • November 21st 2006 — Chance Encounters
  • November 21st 2006 — Chance Encounters
  • November 21st 2006 — Travel Time Tube Map mentioned in New Statesman
  • November 21st 2006 — Travel Time Tube Map mentioned in New Statesman
  • November 28th 2006 — Carbon-adjusted Computation
  • November 28th 2006 — Carbon-adjusted Computation
  • December 7th 2006 — Second Life Avatars Might Consume 1,752 kWh
  • December 7th 2006 — Second Life Avatars Might Consume 1,752 kWh
  • December 18th 2006 — This is what it looks like when I'm doing the washing up.
  • December 18th 2006 — This is what it looks like when I'm doing the washing up.
  • January 5th 2007 — Five Things Most People Don't Know About Me
  • January 5th 2007 — Five Things Most People Don't Know About Me
  • January 18th 2007 — Some Attempts at Twitter Visualisation
  • January 18th 2007 — Some Attempts at Twitter Visualisation
  • January 18th 2007 — SxSW Interactive, Saturday March 10th
  • January 18th 2007 — SxSW Interactive, Saturday March 10th
  • January 30th 2007 — If You're Reading This... Success!
  • January 30th 2007 — If You're Reading This... Success!
  • February 1st 2007 — Neologism of the Day: Overflowded
  • February 1st 2007 — Neologism of the Day: Overflowded
  • February 7th 2007 — DARTZ! - This Is My Ship
  • February 7th 2007 — DARTZ! - This Is My Ship
  • February 14th 2007 — Stamen is hiring a designer
  • February 14th 2007 — Stamen is hiring a designer
  • February 19th 2007 — The one with crazy 3D bar charts coming out of the Earth
  • February 19th 2007 — The one with crazy 3D bar charts coming out of the Earth
  • February 22nd 2007 — The curious voyeur in all of us.
  • March 6th 2007 — A Thing Worth Mentioning in 1652
  • April 4th 2007 — Tumblr is to Imagery as del.icio.us is to URLs
  • April 29th 2007 — XTech 2007, and visiting London
  • May 2nd 2007 — Cognitive Dissonance is Bad for Design
  • May 30th 2007 — What I've been working on at Stamen: Trulia Hindsight
  • May 31st 2007 — Trulia Hindsight - Processing Prototypes
  • May 31st 2007 — Trulia Hindsight - Processing Prototypes
  • July 23rd 2007 — Uniqlock and Californian Quakes
  • July 30th 2007 — A Quick Note on using SQLite in Processing
  • August 1st 2007 — A quick (less certain) note on using Lucene in Processing
  • August 15th 2007 — Oakland Crimespotting
  • September 2nd 2007 — Criticism for Twitter Blocks
  • September 4th 2007 — Design.Yahoo: Web 2.0 meets War Games?
  • September 6th 2007 — Processing Blogs Fixed
  • September 8th 2007 — More Musings on Uselessness
  • September 11th 2007 — Processing Blogs Fixed II: Electric Boogaloo
  • October 13th 2007 — Welcome to the Future?
  • October 15th 2007 — Rabbits and Snails
  • November 8th 2007 — Sticks and Rocks: Illustrating the Problem?
  • December 16th 2007 — Accidental Visual Resonance
  • December 24th 2007 — Proof that narrative is hard: A 3 month Flickr summary
  • January 6th 2008 — New Year's Degobah
  • January 6th 2008 — The Importance of Perspective
  • January 7th 2008 — Writing About Actionscript 3
  • January 7th 2008 — Optimising Actionscript 3
  • January 8th 2008 — Unintuitive E4X Gotcha in Actionscript 3
  • January 10th 2008 — ...And You Will Know Us by the Shape of Thames
  • January 16th 2008 — Stamen '07
  • January 24th 2008 — mySociety Travel Time and House Price Maps
  • January 31st 2008 — Simple Text Outlines in Flash
  • February 4th 2008 — De-Po Skinny Theme: Thanks, Derek!
  • February 8th 2008 — Step 1: Can We Show It All?
  • February 8th 2008 — ArtNano (notes on Wordpress as a CMS)
  • February 8th 2008 — ArtNano (notes on Processing for design elements)
  • February 9th 2008 — New Processing Hack: Line Caps and Joins in OpenGL
  • February 11th 2008 — What's Your Online Carbon Footprint?
  • February 13th 2008 — Correlation = Causation
  • February 18th 2008 — Modest Maps vs Processing
  • March 11th 2008 — InFFFFringement!?
  • March 26th 2008 — OpenStreetMap GPS Visualisation
  • April 7th 2008 — Google's App Engine
  • April 14th 2008 — W(e are )here: Mapping The Human Experience
  • April 16th 2008 — Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
  • May 3rd 2008 — Oops
  • May 7th 2008 — Visualizing Urban Data: A Journey Through Oakland Crimespotting
  • May 8th 2008 — Processing implemented in Javascript
  • May 16th 2008 — Firehose
  • June 14th 2008 — What Have I Been Working On? Trulia Snapshot!
  • August 17th 2008 — A Quote From Edward Tufte
  • September 2nd 2008 — New Work: Hurricane Tracker for MSNBC
  • September 24th 2008 — Fix for buggy Flash TextField selection (on mouse leave)
  • September 24th 2008 — Speaking of tiny details
  • October 1st 2008 — Text along a path in Flash
  • October 1st 2008 — OpenStreetMap vectors + Flash + Yahoo Maps
  • November 5th 2008 — Party Like It's 1997
  • November 17th 2008 — Guest-blogging at infosthetics.com
  • November 24th 2008 — Processing 1.0!
  • November 30th 2008 — SFMOMA ArtScope
  • January 9th 2009 — 3 For '09
  • February 1st 2009 — LÖVE
  • February 11th 2009 — Airport Scheduling
  • February 12th 2009 — New Maps at London2012.com
  • February 15th 2009 — Ubicomp's here, it's just not evenly distributed yet
  • February 18th 2009 — Dataviz Salon SF #1
  • May 11th 2009 — Android Tinkering
  • May 13th 2009 — Cloudspotting
  • June 2nd 2009 — Historical Hurricanes & Oakland Crime
  • June 6th 2009 — js-vector-maps on github
  • June 12th 2009 — Interviews! Everything!
  • September 6th 2009 — If I Had More Time
  • February 9th 2010 — Help Me Think Through Multi-touch Events
  • February 22nd 2010 — Curling is Project Management
  • February 25th 2010 — More Multi-touch Links
  • November 19th 2010 — Ah right, the blog.
  • March 21st 2011 — Greetings Tube Fans
  • May 2nd 2011 — Bloom's first iPad app: Planetary
  • November 2nd 2012 — Bounce
  • February 6th 2013 — Square Payments in New Orleans during the Super Bowl