iPhone
Reading Habits
Friday, September 12th, 2008The iPhone application eReader has changed my life. Or at least, my consumption of literature at any rate. But, crucially, not in the ways that technophobic publishers and bibliophiles would have predicted…
…Here’s the thing: I am still reading traditional, print-based books. The whole ink and paper malarky. Shocking, I know!
What I […]
Tweeting
Sunday, July 13th, 2008I was recently persuaded to try Twitter after observing its use at the NLab Social Networks Conference, where a live feed of everyone’s tweets appeared on the main presentation screen throughout the event. This could be used playfully (a message appearing behind presenter Steve Clayton read: “Steve is a vista pimp”, which later sparked some […]
Plugging In: Part II
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
In part two of my adventure into the world of direct auditory injections, I examined the experience of listening to podcasts whilst going about my daily life. Would moving from the world of melody to the world of words change my perception of the earphone culture?
Well, I made a number of observations about how my […]
Plugging In
Friday, November 16th, 2007I was fortunate enough to acquire a very very nice new iPhone on Friday, and have since spent most of the week playing with its various features and being generally distracted either by the device itself or envious colleagues. However, the option to use it as an iPod led me to conduct a previously untried experiment…
I […]
