I had the privilege to take part in last week's Telco 2.0TM Industry Brainstorm in London - an excellent and thought-provoking two days, and the programme for the next event looks just as enticing. It's all now being written up on the obligatory Telco 2.0TM Blog. I hope I wasn't one of the participants who … Continue reading Telco Too Point Oh
Author: mattedgar
Product strategy and design leadership in web and mobile media. Before that I was a newspaper journalist and history student
the space between the tracks
Remember the old story about the plan to sell ads on vinyl records in the gaps between the tracks? It never happened because the crackly silence turned out to be an essential part of the LP experience. I'm on a train with the world's information sliced and diced into 500 pixels in my hand. But … Continue reading the space between the tracks
Blogging on the beach
... just because I can, and because it's five years to the day since my first mobile clog [t9 sic] post. Equipment used: 1 Nokia 30something, running series 40, Opera Mini, 1 ladybird print beach tent (does not provide protection against rain), sand in shoes. Update 12/9/2006: We've been back for two weeks now and … Continue reading Blogging on the beach
No, I did not say ‘Sunday’ and if I shout any louder it’ll wake the baby
Overheard conversation with the cloth-eared computer of a national cinema chain. Or why context of use is all-important for mobile applications :)
The five senses of web browsing
Chris Heathcote's post on Antimarthastewartisation got me all misty eyed at the thought of printers' ink and white spirit, then I came across Matt Webb's fascinating Making Senses presentation. And that got me thinking that, actually, there is quite a lot of real sense experience bound up with surfing the web, only somehow we blot … Continue reading The five senses of web browsing
Split a tag and kill a cliché
In his essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell identified ... a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod … Continue reading Split a tag and kill a cliché
The private life of a digital camera
Flickr etiquette is a tricky thing. For starters I have to pigeonhole the tangled web of people-with-whom-I-share-photos into "family", "friends" and that wonderful catch-all "contacts" (maybe we should all be using a Cold War-style dead letter box in Regent's Park?) But that's nothing to the almost daily dilemma of how to share each photo I … Continue reading The private life of a digital camera
The first Great Western
From Simon Thurley's fascinating Buildings That Shaped Britain we learn that Isambard Kingdom Brunel had only once travelled on a train when he designed the gloriously non-standard Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Bristol. Now that, for good or ill, is the difference between innovation and design.
Cutting to the heart of the mobile location debate
There's a brilliantly observed article on mobile child tracking services in the States on Kelly Goto's http://www.gotomobile.com. As a parent, I can identify with the insights. I grew up in a small town in the 1970s and enjoyed far greater freedom than we seem to be able to offer our own boys living in a … Continue reading Cutting to the heart of the mobile location debate
What we say versus what we see
So I know what you're going to say, text isn't the point of mobile blogging - it's all about pictures, videos, media, capturing the moment and storing it up or sharing it out. Yes, I love taking pictures with my phone and zapping them up to Flickr, and yes, Shozu is one of that rare … Continue reading What we say versus what we see
mo-blogging text-entry benchmark
i’m typing this on my phone, top deck of a bus travelling up chapeltown road. i reckon i can enter text at about a 10th the speed i think it. that works out about 30 words a mile on the number 3a bus. less outside the rush hour. Equipment used for benchmark (should you wish … Continue reading mo-blogging text-entry benchmark
Broken sign
Whoops there goes another piece of the old Holbeck :( There must be an anagram in there, though. Collect enough old signs and you'd have a giant cast iron version of magnetic poetry...
Mobile blogging five years on (and off)
August 21, 2001. Newly armed with Nik Haldimann's Wapblogger (2001-2005) on my trusty Nokia 7110i I bash out a record seven blog posts in one day. On the bus, in the lift, in the café, In just a few short hours I live every mobile blogging use case known to marketing. That date remains my … Continue reading Mobile blogging five years on (and off)
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Dragon!
Dragon! Originally uploaded by mattedgar. Fabian and I had a lot of fun making these videos. With apologies to Aardman Animations...
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