[I’ve been trying this surfing metaphor a lot lately to try and explain the idea that the kind of work I am doing – and the perceived success of some of it – is less to do with me or even my team and more to do with a change in conditions that allowed these…

  Try as I might I can’t muster any enthusiasm for the whole ‘internet of things’ movement. I can acknowledge that there are likely benefits in it somewhere but most of the ‘smart home’ stuff I’ve read about to date sends me straight to snooze mode. On the other hand I find myself increasingly excited…

  A major preoccupation of my day job is finding out ways to provide as much data as possible in open, reusable formats. In fact probably the only other thing that occupies more of my cognitive activity is the challenge of the user experience of getting people to that data. As we start to make…