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Wrote this a few months ago and forgot about it. Is scrappy, but a decent preface to the next post on the stack…
I seem unable to see a copy of Aramis without walking off with it. Frumin’s i returned the next day, Shekhar’s copy i half-advertently whisked 3000 miles away from where it needed to […]

Time passes, and I find myself at Shekhar’s urban media reading group again. This session crossed Kevin Lynch’s classic The Image of the City with a couple of more recent texts on the exchange of different conceptions of “public” space and its use in the growing stages of Indian megacities. Here are my notes from […]

Shekhar Krishnan operates as a one-person cultural institution, and i barely had time for a nap after getting back from California, before connecting to his nexus of the cultural life of Cambridge.
Biella Coleman was giving a lecture yesterday afternoon, to a lot of sociologists and anthropologists in his department at MIT, with the snappy title […]

i did a talk, on the theme Semantic City, at the Architecture Association school. This was alongside the very interesting John Bell who has a whole ‘unit’ to help him do interestng things with bluetooth based micro broadcasting, sensors and crowd motion analysis…
it is a story about dispersed information infrastructure, knowledge in the world and […]

Recently i was doing some research on the re-use of Listed Buildings . buildings of historical interest which have legal protection - in East London. So, i thought, i’ll download the list of listed buildings in Tower Hamlets, and then i’ll… Then, i hit the brick wall that is public sector information policy, very hard.
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indyvoter finally ‘went beta’ at the weekend, during a training mission in Ohio, having bust a gut hacking on it the previous week. By now it’s into the third rewrite and looking stable, with half as many features again on the release list.
Hopefully, it’s more than a YASN - find friends, join communities, write blogs, […]