Archive for the ‘musings’ Category

The World is Flat – again

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

OK last post was musing. This is the synthesis. People. The world is becoming flat again. example: Interfaces are becoming flat. Touch screens. Flat screens. Tablets. We are writing and reading on tablets again. Let’s hope we don’t fall off the wrong edge. Special thanks to Einat Biran for helping me crystalise! Image source: 1922 [...]

Where did all the buttons & keys go?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

The smell of melons once more drifted across the stage. – Thursday Next The Eyre Affair by the fabulous Jasper Fforde I was just on Facebook commenting as you do, and I realised they had removed my OK button. Huh? In it’s place in tiny text was a little note saying “press Enter to post [...]

40 is the new 20!

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

today’s observation…40 is the new 20.

On the Increasing Speed of Change

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Things are changing. Fast. Sometimes it can be hard to articulate quite how much I feel that things are changing and those changes are speeding up. Even our (and my own) shift to visuals over words^. My friend posted the link to the images below on Facebook*. It portrays visually what I feel. Things are [...]

She believed she could…

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

I’ve started to write again. Well I’m sprouting really. It’s chick lit. A bit of a surprise for me too. But it seems working so why not. And I’ve decided to have a full first draft by end of this year. My Aunty added that it would be published within the new year. Amen. image [...]

On boredom

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

“Our kids don’t know what it’s like to be bored…” my uncle mentioned in passing last week. I write this on my laptop with Whale Rider on the TV in front of me, my iphone next to me, a zillion tabs open in firefox…I notice how these days if I’m in a cab or even [...]

Web 3.0: A Doc By Kate Ray

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

Logorama

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Can’t wait to see Logorama, the movie! Been waiting to post because everytime I found a video to embed it was taken off youtube etc….so now you can see the trailer here And watch full movie here, (presumably while it last’s) via kottke

How To Be An Explorer

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Today’s story…by keri smith click on the image or here loving it. and it’s simplicity. and how cool is this as preview to a book! kudus keri! ps collecting seems to be a theme at the moment. cool.

Musing On Social Networks

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

It’s rare that I post twice in one day, and so disparately but I’m a monkey brain and these are too good not to share. So I’m on twitter (@natstories shameless plug) and various other “social networking” addictive time sucking adventures in friendship & acquaintance. Some, like this blog, have been wonderful connections professionally and [...]