Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Our VW Polo for sale!

I don’t normally use my blog for my daily personal stuff as I try to stick to the themes of play, online culture, technology and writing. But we’re …

BBC Annotatable Audio Project

And whilst we’re at in on the audio front, check this out. Very smart. The BBC are doing some exciting stuff with all that licence money.

Last.fm - a replacement for Pandora (already)?

Not long ago I wrote about Pandora the service that allows you to find music similar to your own tastes. It trawls through the Music Genome Project database to …

ONEDOTZERO_10: Call for submissions

Time for any of my ex or current students and general creative bods to send out their DVDs. onedotzero, the world’s largest digital film festival, is open …

New work from Binalogue

My friends (and ex-students) over at Binalogue recently re-vamped their site (though being the perfectionists they are it’s going to have even more done …

Placeopedia - linking Wikipedia with Google Earth

No idea why I didn’t blog about this a while ago, but I just pulled Placeopedia’s feed into Google Earth. Placeopedia links Wikipedia articles with …

Less Work, More Play - presentation at Neue-Digitale

I’ve just had a very enjoyable afternoon at Neue-Digitale in Frankfurt interviewing co-founder, Olaf Czeschner, for Desktop but also giving a presentation …