Software as the key artform of the 21st Century

Isn’t it time we stopped talking about media and returned to the term artform? A medium is ultimately physical in our understanding of it, no matter how enhanced or extended it may be. For me, one of the main achievements of the digital revolution is to have separated creative content from media. Now, no longer [...]

File Naming & the dumbest thing ever

John Foster in a recent episode of MacBreak Tech while in the middle of a perfectly enjoyable discussion on file naming… said the one thing you should never do is use the date in a name, that it was ‘the dumbest thing ever’. Now, I would have a lot of crossover interests with him, having [...]

Whatever happened to Computer Art?

I was asked a while back to give a talk on creative applications on the Mac and it set me off thinking about the early days when I first got into this. I have to say, it was much to the bafflement of loved ones and friends at the time, about 20 years ago. It’s [...]

Something new…

I’ve been reading John C. Dvorak’s tech writing for as long as I’ve been interested in this stuff. He was the first general columnist I became aware of after Jerry Pournelle’s writing in Byte Magazine. My first computer was an Amstrad PC1512 and I was an early subscriber to PC Magazine where I came across [...]

Getting Things Done using TaskPaper

I’ve been been a keen convert to GTD since reading the book by David Allen about two years ago. Since then I’ve been a daily visitor to 43Folders and found a lot there to help guide me, there’s a very well informed community of productivity heads all of whom seemed to be working their way [...]

The Digital difference…

Whooo…. my first lecture on the internet compressed by Michael Wesch into about 3 minutes and way more entertaining. I love the sense of joy and wonder, empowerment and personal responsibility he clearly feels now, in this moment. Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-85-blankimage”).onload();

Word Processors

Back in the day… that would be 1986 to be precise, the year i bought my first computer. It was an Amstrad PC1512, all of 512k ram and twin 360k floppy drives. It came with a choice of operating systems. MS-DOS or CP/M and two windowing systems, Windows 1.2 and GEM. The principal reason for [...]

TED 2

Ted Robinson on Creativity in Schools. Al Gore on Averting a Climate Crisis Great examples of the good things in TED. I think this might just be the best thing to happen this week… and I’ve a feeling more to come… Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-41-blankimage”).onload();

TED

First came across TED a few years ago and thought how great it would be to attend that… a conference by leading thinkers in technology, entertainment and design. My cup of tea altogether. The great news is they have put over 100 of the presentations from previous years online. Terrific. All posted under Creative Commons [...]

The Morphing of Interactivity…

While shooting the breeze with Brian Mulligan, who heads up e-learning at our College, we went through our histories, it’s always nice to talk to someone who knows what an Amiga is and who had worked with them. What I also like is chatting to someone else who knows the sweep of things, who remembers [...]