Back in 2004 Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson released a video that looked to predict the future of digital. In fact it looked forward a decade – focusing on March 2014! It was titled EPIC 2014 but most people referred to it as the GoogleZon video. In those days before Twitter the video still managed…

I’ve been pretty busy recently – between work (aaarrggghhh) and failed personal projects (boohoo) so I am going to forgive myself for missing the launch of Mosaic (though not sure I can be excused by missing so much of the preamble.) Mosaic is a really interesting experiment, an appropriate term given the focus of its…

I’ve just shared my idea for a Bristol based alternate-universe style adventure comic book over on Medium. A few people have expressed an interest in it actually happening and I have been interested in the inner-workings of Kickstarter for a while so I am looking in to the idea of giving it a go. The…

Sharon O’Dea has written an interesting piece on why Jelly has failed to really set (see what I did there!) I agree and I also uninstalled the app pretty sharpish. For pretty much the same reasons (though probably I was as annoyed by the hipster-business-weasel-words Biz Stone has been spouting as by the brands.) I…

I talk a lot about being ‘open’. Or rather supporting that idea(l). The subtitle to this blog talks about the ’open web’. The problem is I increasingly wondering just what I mean by it and whether I’m failing as an ’open citizen’. At one time or another in my career I’ve been pretty closely associated…