As well as working for Pixel-Lab, I occasionally do bits for Mudlark, who held a launch event in Birmingham last Friday.
It sparked off a lot of thoughts about communications, which I’ve written up for them here.
There were a few definitions given of the term post-digital, including Matt defining it as “a state in which we [...]

I started typing a response to this comment, but it became a post.
But is there such a thing as a wrong opinion ?
Onto your point, when everything is connected, doesn’t culture become a common denominator as it is accessible to everyone ?
As I have access to this globalized world that reaches from one point of [...]

There is no such thing as an uncultured person, there are merely differences in culture. Never has this been more true than in a globalised, networked world.

(This is written for Russell Davies’ Lyddle End 2050 project. The photos are all of models I made for it, and you can also see them as a set on Flickr).

We’ve lived through a lot of futures and most of them, we didn’t see coming. We’ve imagined many more, and I have a lot of [...]

It’s an odd climate in which to coin such a post title, but a few things I’ve observed have been rattling around recently.
The ongoing economic crisis seems to drive people to more conservative tactics, which aren’t necessarily safe (i.e. retreating to currency in the name of liquidity doesn’t seem like a very sure bet…). The [...]

(In which the author/typist apologises in a roundabout way for posting less nowadays)
I need more time to sit and think about this, but Jane Pinckard has posted something very good, though preliminary, about emergent trends in entertainment.
There’s definitely something to this:
Facebook status updates are absolutely brilliant ways for expressing an immediate state, and allowing someone [...]

“I think that people have learned that money is not made in banks. It is made by real people working hard at real jobs. Actually, deep down we knew that all along. We just have to learn it again.”
– Asbjorn Jonsson, third-generation Icelandic fisherman
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Irresponsible people tied the shoelaces of many societies in the name [...]

I’ve been sceptical of CDs and optical media since I last moved house and had to carry them. I’m purging my possessions of extraneous stuff at the moment, and last night ripped and tagged all of my remaining CDs. The pile came out to about 4 gigabytes of MP3s, which is the size of the [...]

After the jump there’s a written version of the keynote talk I gave at Under The Mask, Perspectives on the Gamer on Saturday the 7th of June. You can find slides to go with it here, an embedded version with image credits here, links to most of the things I’m talking about here, the conference [...]

Here are the slides for the Game Culture Talk I did last Saturday at Under The Mask:

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These are also mirrored with transcript on the Pixel-Lab site.
If the embed doesn’t work for you, here’s a link to the slide page.
Photo credits after the jump. Most images were used under creative [...]

I’ve been asked to deliver a keynote at Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer. Provided everything goes to plan, this post will be automatically published while I’m giving the talk.
Slides and a written version of the talk can be found at the Pixel-Lab site or a few entires on in this blog. For now, [...]

Trying to watch TED talks is like standing in front of a firehose. I like it when people point me to a particularly interesting one, and this 10 minute one by Joshua Klein on crows is fascinating:

Among the more startling things in the talk:
Crows can figure out a problem and create a tool to surmount [...]

(CC licensed image by Roadsidepictures)
I ran an event for work a few nights ago, and one of the things that came up in discussion was this blog entry by Ste Pickford. He raises an interesting question:
I’m playing GTA4 right now but I’m not very good and shooting / aiming games, so I’m struggling with some [...]

There’s some interesting work being done at Playing Together. Talking about social gaming and the Wii in particular, they quote a few kids/teenagers:
“I was addicted to Unreal and i knew all the cheats.”
How often did you play it?
“All the time!”
And why did you stop playing it?
“I grew up! [laughs]”
[Male, 19, Yorkshire]
It goes on:
I do wonder, [...]

There are a few things I once hated and reactively avoided, but now grudgingly accept as mud from which I can grab occasional nuggets of precious metal.
Celebrity gossip:
I still steer well clear of most of this. It is utterly irrelevant to me that footballer X, pop star Y or model Z have cancer, are giving [...]