The Penrose Annuals

A Dance to the Music of Time as Penguins

MJQ.AM

The Modern Jazz Quartet on vinyl

Science Story Magic - NewsNarrativeStream Q2

Science Story Magic is an imagined future radio station. It's speculative fiction - what would algorithmically-generated, robot-voiced, highly-personalised, content-funded corporate radio sound like? Especially when it fails.

In September 2016 it was featured as part of Radiophrenia.

Waiting for Dan

Waiting for Matt

This is a mock up of an audio app that I'd love to build one day. I wrote about it as part of talking about the Playful conference. Giles wrote about it more intelligently here.

Lyddle End 2050 was a participative speculative modeling project that I started in 2008 on a tumblr that's now been taken over by a spammer. Lots of people made brilliant things, some are shown below. We're still looking for somewhere to exhibit the finished village.

What?

Episode One: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (2006) (what?)

Episode Two: The Internet of Things (2015) (what?)

You can listen to all the tracks here.

I made a sort of single-serving audio website called Permanent Bedtime using S3FM. It plays the shipping forecast and Sailing By all the time. In 2016 I updated it and moved it off S3FM so it works on mobile too. Handy!

A map that extracts data from the web and lights up LEDs if the local BorisBike stations have more than 5 bikes.

The Big Red Button that Alex and Daniel helped me make for the Lift talk, ended up in the Talk To Me show at MOMA.

You can buy one here.

I'm slightly obsessed with PowerPoint. What you can do with it, what you can't. And how you might build interesting alternatives.

A twitter for the long now

From Marble Arch to a large pile of wood

Anti-clockwise round the congestion zone

BT to Gherkin

Belsize Walk

Sark to Dome

Constant Use

The Trees of Oxford Street

Waterpistols

Spukhafte Fernwirkung

Family Guns

Soho Corners

All the channels on hotel TVs.

I've ploughed through the Wayback Machine and found links to most of the old columns. Plus some miscellaneous other bits I did.

May 2016 - 29 reasons to love PowerPoint

Feb 2015 - Slagging off Uber while trying to follow a brief of being nice about Uber

January 2014 - Awkward moments from the future of computing

April 2012 - History will remember Samuel Pepys blog

August 2011 - Make things not media platforms

December 2010 - On robots

November 2010 - On longevity

October 2010 - Digital heirlooms

September 2010 - On words

August 2010 - On endings

July 2010 - On reality

June 2010 - On the structure of time

May 2010 - Going out to play

April 2010 - The value of metadata

March 2010 - Spam, Spamlets and Spambots

February 2010 - The irrationality of watches

January 2010 - What will the countryside of the future look like?

December 2009 - Bionic noticing and Transparency mania

November 2009 - Meat is more important than meta

October 2009 - can't seem to find one

September 2009 - can't seem to find one

August 2009 - Like a bathroom mirror, the screen shows only flaws

July 2009 - The rich can't get a better OS than the rest of us

June 2009 - What if Amazon S3 could store our physical stuff, too?

May 2009 (Launch issue) - I'm not a zen monk, I'm doing my expenses

This talk was called There's a Walrus in my Fridge and It Won't Shut Up. It was, kind of, a second half to Next 11.

A talk about what might happen when We Put Data In Things. I ended up doing a second half for this talk in 2012.

I did a talk at dConstruct. (MP3)

I did a talk at Playful

(Picture by Matt Biddulph)