Doctor's Note

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

Lost for music? Try Pandora.

Okay lots of bloggers have been raging about Pandora recently. It’s come from the Music Genome Project and is brilliant example of collaborative filtering …

Xooglers

Ex-Googlers Doug Edwards and Ron Garrett have set up the Xooglers blog. It makes fascinating reading for anyone who has ever been involved in a dotcom …

How downloads will save TV

So, I’ve been ranting about the iTunes downloads killing off TV for a while. I’ve not been arguing that TV content will die out, but rather that the …

New Hulger phones.

Although I’m one of those Bluetooth headset jerks (I use it in the car, okay?) I’m very excited about the new Hulger’s from my friend Nic. …

American border police overzealous

I’ve just been reading Hossein Derakhshan’s (aka Hoder) account of being stopped at the border in Toronto about to go back to New York. It’s …

Interactive Entertainment 2005

I’m just here at Interactive Entertainment 2005 presenting a paper, The Flow Principle in Interactivity as well as a demo of my Time Smear piece. …

REFRESH! Conference - Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand Interactivity

An archive of the REFRESH! Conference at the Banff New Media Institute is now online. You can download my paper, Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art …