- Pixel Track | Berg Blog
This strikes me as very, very interesting. Signage with a very low on-site requirement, but extremely high network power.
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Bookmarks for May 13, 2014
- Matthew Irvine Brown » Little Printer
"New British Modern". Or, put another way: a great many of my favourite things rolled up into one. I recently wrapped up a (completely unrelated, absolutely nothing to do with technology) project that was drawing on a similar aesthetic, and reading this has got me thinking about how I'd put a similar set of notes together for a moodboard/design manual for the next one.
Bookmarks for November 29, 2011
- Little Printer | BERG Cloud
There are a bunch of things that interest me about this. The physicalisation of internet-sourced data. The just-enough and just-in-time approach. The social angle. And most of all, the suggestion that this is the first of a range of tools to bring the virtual and physical closer together. I want one, and I want the developer documentation for this "bergcloud" or which they speak, because I imagine I can have fun with them.
- Hidden habits of ineffective people by Chris Wake – Quora
There are a couple of things in here that I should really work on, mostly 1 and 3, but they're all good advice.
Bookmarks for December 10, 2010
- Help: Twelve Tales of Healing
Your second stock-filler recommendation for the day! What are you waiting for? Go! Get shopping! Buy my friend's fine literary product and help make the world a better place!
- Invaders from Mars – Charlie's Diary
I know Stross is one of my regular linkees, and I'm sure a lot of you glide over him at this point, but I thought this was a particularly interesting read, and I commend it to anyone who is feeling frustrated by the apparently lack of ability for members of the public to influence anything in the wake of stuff like Wikileaks and the student fees protests. It won't tell you how to change things, but it provides an interesting perspective on the whys of the current situation, that lead to some interesting thoughts on how one might affect change in the medium-term future.
- The Fast Fiction Challenge – Volume 2 by Lee Barnett
Budgie's Fast Fiction Challenge, now in its second volume. I commend it to your attention as a perfect stocking filler.
- standpoint gallery
Reverting to Type: exhibition. Must go see.
- Havasu: a material exploration of conversational interfaces – Blog – BERG
Interested mostly into the insights into conversational interface, rather than the actual product here. For consideration: pair a more general use version of this with some voice recognition software, and it won't be long before all those SF voice-activated computers become a reality.
Bookmarks for October 5, 2010
- Why Wesabe Lost to Mint – Marc Hedlund's blog
Fascinating reading – the former CEO of Websabe, about why his site was beaten (and eventually, closed down) by his major competitor. Very honest, and quite a clear eyed look at his own mistakes. (I note in passing that I am still (eagerly) waiting for the UK version of Mint or Websabe.)
- Open Data for the Arts – Human Scale Data and Synecdoche – Blog – BERG
I would love for our client to allow us to make some of the data generated by their various systems open. I've no idea what the result would be, possibly nothing, but I'd be interested to see, especially as I've been thinking about the vast aggregate of similar data we've got across several clients…
Bookmarks for August 17, 2010
- BBC – Dimensions – Index
BERG produce a site that helps you understand the scale and distances of things in the recent, and not so recent past. If the Apollo 11 astronauts had landed at your front door, could the distance they walked have enabled them to buy a pint of milk? How far away from your parents house would the German trenches have been, if WWI had happened where you grew up? And so on, and so forth. Nice!
- BookBook for iPad – BookBook for iPad – Twelve South
If I didn't have my Dodocase, or if, god forbid, anything should happen to it, I'd want one of these, I think.
- rejectamentalist manifesto
China Miéville has a blog. I believe this may be relevant to our interest
- Science Digestive: My application for a job as a Homeopath
In case were weren't aware NHS Tayside are offering a £68,000 a year job for a fucking homeopath, despite having laid off 500 people due to the current round of cuts. The level of angry this makes me is hard to fucking describe – it is a near perfect example of the counter to the "well, it can't hurt, and it might help some people" argument that others put forward. Anyway, setting incandescent fury aside for a moment, here is an amusing read: A qualified neuroscientist applies for the job.
- Washington, We Have a Problem | Politics | Vanity Fair
interesting article on the daily routine of the Obama presidency, and the difference between the media now, and the media of a decade ago.