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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Really important and under-interpreted fact: China is undergoing “population fan out”

USA Today reports on the 26 million newly jobless Chinese people leaving the industrial cities of the Pearl River Delta and returning home to rural villages in the provinces, and of the strain this is putting on Chinese society. For Lei Sanjun, 25, who spent seven years making sneakers in the coastal factory city of [...]

The London Twestival – a seven minute video tour!

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Twestival posts

Mark Charmer discussing twitter, ICT and water. Me on the future of poverty for Agit8. This is probably the best thing I’ve written.

What I do for a living

Pretty good representation of what I actually do these days. Fun!

Akvo: we actually use iChat the way that Apple shows it off in Keynotes

Inamo Restaurant, Soho, London – check the funky projector tables and ordering interface

Click to Play http://www.inamo-restaurant.com Deeply cyberpunk, really. There’s also a big downstairs with more cybertables and a cool bar. Splendid.

What Paris Knows – on video blogging and the like

So I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few months about video production – about production values, and about the simple fact that the world is turning into one great big networked camera with 5.8 billion lenses and one archive. In this environment, I think we need some new ways of thinking about media. [...]

GlueSniffers… postponed

An observed polarity: Pervasive vs. Produced

There are now three points at which you can stream my life.