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Aug 24, 2020

The Magnificent Machinery of Hands

How often do you look at the tools we use every day?

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The Magnificent Machinery of Hands
The Magnificent Machinery of Hands

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Published in Stay Keen

·May 6, 2020

Keen on… Blogging with Tom Critchlow

Watching for emerging blogging styles and formats — This post is from Tom Critchlow, part of the Keen team. Blogging has been on quite the journey eh? But don’t call it dead. It’s just changed. I’ve been blogging on and off for over a decade and in that time have seen lots of different explorations and ideas. …

Blogging

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Keen on… Blogging with Tom Critchlow
Keen on… Blogging with Tom Critchlow
Blogging

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Apr 20, 2017

Context Collapse, Brands & Content

Why so much content is mediocre and what to do about it. — Context collapse. The idea that the publish box on the internet is terrifyingly broad. With one action we’re sending content to people of a million different interests, intents and types. Social media technologies collapse multiple audiences into single contexts, making it difficult for people to use the same techniques online…

Content Marketing

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Content Marketing

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May 11, 2016

Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement

Up until yesterday I used Intercom to run a livechat experience on Fiercely Curious, an online art startup that I run. …

Facebook

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Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement
Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement
Facebook

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Jan 21, 2016

Intermodal Media

The shipping container revolutionized global trade and modern capitalism. Why? Because it standardized infrastructure. This is called intermodalism: Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing…

Facebook

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Facebook

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Published in Movie Time Guru

·Jan 10, 2016

How the financial crisis of 2007 pushed Michael Burry to become Batman

Fanfiction — Long hours in the office took a toll on Michael Burry. Awkward around others and constantly fighting for legitimacy from everyone — investors, employees, the system, the banks.

Batman

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How the financial crisis of 2007 pushed Michael Burry to become Batman
How the financial crisis of 2007 pushed Michael Burry to become Batman
Batman

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Sep 13, 2015

In The Future We Will All Fall Madly in Love With Our Toasters

…and why the future of the Internet of Things will be the Cute Home, not the Smart Home. Ever since my tamagotchi died in high school I’ve been wondering what the next digital artefact is that I’ll mourn for. We anthropomorphize so many things in our lives — from pets to furniture. It’s a natural instinct to build meaningful relationships with the things we integrate into our…

Internet Of Things

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In The Future We Will Fall Madly in Love with our Toasters
In The Future We Will Fall Madly in Love with our Toasters
Internet Of Things

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Jul 15, 2015

This piece is powerful — written by an Iranian blogger who went to jail for 6 years for blogging:

This piece is powerful — written by an Iranian blogger who went to jail for 6 years for blogging: https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426 Of course the ultimate irony is that this is published on Medium. Does independent publishing need to be written using other people’s platforms in 2015? Some really wonderful writing though: …

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Jul 15, 2015

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/jul/2/how-see-infrastructure-guide-seven-billion-primate/

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/jul/2/how-see-infrastructure-guide-seven-billion-primate/ Infrastructure is drastically important to our way of life, and largely kept out of sight. It is the underground, the conduited, the containerized, the concreted, the shielded, the buried, the built up, the broadcast, the palletized, the addressed, the routed. It is the underneath, the chassis, the network, the hidden system, the combine, the conspiracy. There is something of a paranoiac, occult quality to it.

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Published in Fiercely Curious

·May 29, 2015

Custom Commissions from Fiercely

How to work with Fiercely Curious & Fiercely Made to make a unique piece of art or furniture for your home or business —

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Custom Commissions from Fiercely
Custom Commissions from Fiercely

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