Image of Steve Jobs

I've been mulling over all this Flash-iPhone, Apple v Adobe stuff for a while now, and then lo and behold, Steve Jobs writes an open letter about it on the Apple website. So, I got some posh stationery and wrote ...Read More

Thoughts on Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="287" caption="Fabulous to think that Photoshop once came on a floppy disk"][/caption] Wow. Photoshop is 20 years old today. There will shortly be a generation of young designers around who won't have lived in the 'pre-Photoshop' world. Actually, ...Read More

Happy birthday Photoshop. Star Wars, ageing and interviewing an Adobe software engineer

Information is Beautiful explains the American political divide using data-derived imagery

[caption id="attachment_247" align="alignright" width="185" caption="Sir Tim Berners-Lee passionately explains Linked Data"][/caption] I’m an idiot. Not a fool, exactly, but I get these bees in my bonnet about one thing or another, usually something absolutely ridiculous, and I go on and on ...Read More

Dogs, data and Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship

[caption id="attachment_158" align="alignright" width="317" caption="Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship"][/caption] I'm not one for thinking that we in the west are teetering on the edge of a police ...Read More

Farhad Manjoo on why e-readers can turn e-books to e-kindling

[caption id="attachment_137" align="alignright" width="315" caption="Major Havelock overlooks Trafalgar Square beneath the summer sun"][/caption] I began an entry this time last week. I had just been to see Flow, a fantastic visual asset management tool from Canadian firm Gridiron. To summarise, it ...Read More

Gridiron Flow, Trafalgar Square and the Summer Sun

  [caption id="" align="alignright" width="318" caption="ScrollMotion hopes to be the iTunes of books for Apple's latest iPhone"][/caption] One of these days I'll get my hands on a Kindle or a Sony  e-Reader and figure out whether they really are the future, or ...Read More

ScrollMotion iPhone apps seem interesting

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="309" caption="Governor Schwarzenegger says scrap paper, adopt e-readers for state students"][/caption] Not a lot of time just at the moment. But, I've just read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, (or Kellifwahnya, as he says) wants to get ...Read More

Schwarzenegger scraps school books

Just as surely as I sit rapt watching Neighbours during my lunchtimes, I’m also wholly absorbed by the developments in the screen reader sector. It’s far from sexy, but, well as Gene Pitney sang, something’s gotten hold of my heart. I ...Read More

E-literacy starts here

  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="The EBM, thumbnail"][/caption] London has just seen its first espresso book machine become operational, in a West End branch of Blackwell's. I've been watching eagerly for signs of the demise of print as the digital revolution gathers ...Read More

Musing on the espresso book machine

It’s another sunny day in London and we city folk are milling about slightly happier than we were a few months back, when it was cold and oppressive, and we were waiting for the bump at the bottom of the ...Read More

A quick thought on summer and Twitter