Doctor's Note

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

Peter Polaine at The Pin Mill Studio

Christmas Dinner by Peter Polaine Quick plug for my dad, Peter Polaine, who has an exhibition of his woodcut prints on at The Pin Mill Studio in Suffolk at the …

Little Bits of Electronics

littleBits is an open source library of small electronic components that are already pre-assembled. The very clever and cool thing about them is that they snap …

Cat and Mouse

Cats lack a knowledge of willing suspension of disbelief. When cat’s interact is that a cataract?

Is Twitter just a giant MOO/MUD?

Lambda MOO The development of technology is more like a spiral than the upwards arrow we often think of. The same ideas come around again and again with slight …

The Future of Broadcasting and the BBC

Although I still agree with much of Mark Pesce’s take on the Future of Television, Stephen Fry neatly sums up the worth of the BBC in an interesting …

The Paper Web - Sketches of Web Services

Vimeo sketches by Sockyung ‘Sox’ Hong If you read my post about wireframing and prototyping with paper you’ll love Sean Flannagan’s collection of …

Pinger - Voice-based Twitter?

Pinger is doing the rounds of Twitterland at the moment. It’s a service that allows you to send voice messages to one or a group of people anywhere from a …