If you know nothing about how computers work (and I know precious little), it’s probably time that you learnt. Consider: if software really does eat… Read More »It’s time you learnt (a bit about) how computers work (1)
Note: Links to resources are at the bottom. The footnotes are worth reading. On Thursday I attended ‘Creative Commons Basics’, a webinar hosted by the… Read More »Creative Commons resources – open source literacy webinar
Access to an unlimited world of information is a powerful augmentation of human capability, but it still has prerequisites. Before she could make an exquisite… Read More »Tim O’Reilly on structural literacy
Not just shiny new stuff It was clear (at least to me) that technology was an extension of natural life, but in what ways was… Read More »Kevin Kelly – what is technology?
The engine inside a car is complicated. A complicated system is a causal system – meaning that it is subject to cause and effect. Although… Read More »Systems: complicated and complex – Aaron Dignan
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It… Read More »Byproduct
My sister (let’s call her Sharky) bought me a book for Christmas. Sharky lives in Argentina. She bought the book from a shop in the… Read More »The new possible
Richard Stallman famously wrote the GNU GPL, which is a license based on copy-left, not copyright. His position is the freedom to work with computers… Read More »GNU-GPL – a base of code
I know almost nothing about Information Architecture, but I’ve been thinking a lot about structuring information recently. Here’s the metaphor: Jacques Carelman‘s famous Coffee pot for… Read More »Structure Counts: Information Architecture reading list and who’s who
This is a different type of post – more of a howto or a ‘what I tried’, in the spirit of moving fast and getting… Read More »121 minutes to your first podcast episode