Keeping your place
…it was held that in a unilateral contract i.e. one where the act of acceptance is also consideration of the promise offered; that there is no general proposition that once the offeree commences...
View ArticleIt’s time for content strategy
They say there’s a time and a place for everything. I’m not sure who they are, but I was starting to think content strategy would prove them wrong. You see, despite the fact that we have been in the...
View ArticleYiying Lu
If ever there was a case to be made for nominative determinism Yiying Lu must be it. In Shanghainese, (Yiying was born and brought up in Shanghai) Yiying means ‘happy and creative’. To meet this...
View ArticleDisrupting the conceptual metaphors of the web
Distance is a bother. While we might enjoy arriving at our destination, the process of getting from A to B can be tedious. Science fiction gives us a way to think about this tedium. Let’s roughly...
View ArticleTwitterville
Lately, our technosocial omnipresence has started occupying yet another neighborhood — Twitterville. Unlike TV, radio, cinema or websites, built by a selected few, Twitter is a far more vibrant space,...
View ArticleOne web and universal access: a bridge too far?
In a world were the web is everywhere — in our pockets, on our TV’s, on games consoles and more — you can’t risk shutting out users as we become more and more diverse. But making the web accessible to...
View ArticleMaps and macroscopes
Richard Feynman, the 20th century American physicist, was once challenged by an artist friend as to whether a scientist could see the beauty in a flower: “You take this all apart and it becomes a dull...
View ArticleWhat Africa can teach us about place
In the colonial ‘scramble for Africa’ in the late 19th century France wanted to own everything from Dakar to Djibouti and drew a line between the two from East to West dividing Africa’s North from its...
View ArticleUnlocking the power of place
Where are you from?It’s curious how easily this question rolls off the tongue in the context of a conversation with a stranger. It’s a simple, socially acceptable question that we often ask without a...
View ArticleHome is where 127.0.0.1 is
Three years ago, if you told someone you had a GPS — or Global Positioning System — device in your pocket or backpack, the most common expectation would have been that you took your car’s GPS module...
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