It has been a particularly fine year for nettles in England: warm, damp ...   more »

Several friends from the American side of the pond sent me copies of a Clay Shirky video on how making things easier makes more people do something, but that while the average quality falls, the total amount of good stuff rises. I’m paraphrasing as I lost the original video clip, but you’ll probably get the gist of the argument. Basically a bigger bell curve has a broader base on both sides and a higher peak. But how ?    more »

It is only about 10 uses, sorry, but in the saturated media age, I thought a little bit of artistic licence worth it to get you to read more about how digital animation will change the ways in which you can express yourself. By the end of the year, I dare say that we will be into the dozens of uses, and we might reach that 101 uses in a year or two. After all, who knew what a word-processor would eventually be used for or evolve into? What is delightful and surprising in equal measure is how quickly people - with no prior media experience - have taken to using digital animation to express themselves. Long Movies, Short Movies, Adverts, Political Speaches, Personal Blogs, Jokes, Bands and Performance Reasons, Rapid Scripting, Comic Books. uh ... Comic Books????   more »