October 2007
2 posts
The beauty of connectedness
A number of different circumstances have recently come together to make me realise the beauty in feeling connected. I’ve re-established connections with a lot of old friends in the last few years through various social networking sites but I’m talking about a different type of connectedness. There is something very satisfying about having everything together and working well. I’ve just updated...
Physicality and the poetry of online
Don Norman has recently been emphasising the importance of the physical and its return to prominence, through devices like the Wii. Physicality of a different but obviously connected sort has been playing on my mind for quite a time. How do we capture taste, touch and texture in the digital environment? Clearly these things are physically impossible on a simple web page or an RSS feed. But that...