Context: The folk at Unthinkable Digital asked me to write something about the dream & creative potential of…
The two services that, more than any other, have come to stand for the dysfunctional relationship between digital technology and politics both emerged in more or less haphazard ways. Facebook was famously a hormone-driven college project, and Twitter began life as a piece of…
In 2011, ‘discovery’ would have been the right word for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). That year, Sebastian…
I recently read Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, and was captivated by the freshness with which the book…
Over the last few weeks I’ve really been enjoying using a tool called Sonic Pi…
As an over-forty, it’s a cliché that I’m an immigrant rather than a native to the land of digital. (Having…
One of the recent projects we've done at Bath: Hacked is to explore a sample of the Strava Metro data covering the city of Bath. I'm not going to cover all of the project details in this post, but if you’re interested then I suggest you read this introductory post…
How has digital influenced teenagers’ eating habits and what resources are out there?
My daughter, inspired by a heroine in a book and a lifelong distaste for meat, is a vegetarian. She is also soon to enter the challenging…
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