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Things We’ve Learnt About…Search and Web Use 12 Mar 2013 | 05:59 pm
We have a new issue of the “Things We’ve Learnt About…” magazine, a regular publication we release each issue of which summarizes the research work of the Socio-Digital Systems team around a particula...
SXSW Day 1: Bre Pettis (MakerBot) opening Keynote 11 Mar 2013 | 07:09 pm
I’m at the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin Texas for a few days. It’s a huge event made up of talks, workshops, films and lots of other stuff to see. I’m going to a number of the talks, and I thou...
Favorite Photos of 2012 3 Jan 2013 | 01:04 am
Favorites of 2012, a set on Flickr. Here’s my ninth (gulp) annual set of favourite photos that I’ve taken this year with my Lumix GF1. I still love the camera, and picked up a new lens which zooms (a...
Support my half marathon!! 1 Oct 2012 | 12:16 pm
I’ll be running Nike’s “Run to the Beat” half marathon in London on the 28th of October, and am madly training with my wife, Shannon, who is also running. We’re raising money as part of the run in sup...
Technology Heirlooms in the National Media Museum 20 Sep 2012 | 11:08 pm
I was lucky enough to get a request from the UK’s National Media Museum in Bradford for the use of our Technology Heirlooms prototypes in their new exhibition, Life Online, all about the development o...
Social Photography at Getty’s #CurveLive event 3 Sep 2012 | 02:52 pm
On Thursday 12th of July 2012 I spoke at Getty’s “CurveLive” event on social photography. Here are some notes I wrote up soon after that I’ve been a little lax in posting. Hopefully they’re still inte...
Shots from Neosho, MO. Family reunion 2012. 5 Aug 2012 | 02:54 am
I’m still adding to this set, but here’s a set of photos from this year’s Peter’s Family Reunion.
RCA Degree Show 2012 & Microsoft Design Expo 3 Aug 2012 | 09:53 pm
Microsoft holds an annual design competition for students from around the world who are usually studying either interaction or product design. It’s called the Design Expo. Students work in groups at t...
Central Saint Martins Degree Show 2012 23 Jun 2012 | 03:22 pm
My phone shots from the CSM show this year, in their cool new King’s Cross building. Most of these are from the Textile Futures program, which was, as usual, really thought provoking. Project from th...
Slow Technology Workshop | Part 1 15 Jun 2012 | 08:57 pm
I was in Newcastle for the Designing Interactive Systems conference from the 12th to the 15th of June. This conference takes place every couple of years, and looks at the social science of technology,...
