A few months after the introduction of the smoking ban in England, these warning signs started popping up in a few underpasses around where I live. This one, near the local college, could have definitely been the result of students retreating to this underpass to smoke, having banned from smoking in campus. 
For every piece of […]

Charles Leadbeater gave an interesting talk at the RSA a couple of weeks ago, on the occasion of publishing his new book, “We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity“. You can already download an audio recording of his talk, but for those who like to have a quick overview, here are some notes I’ve put together:
Charles […]

Don’t steal this salmon, originally uploaded by futureshape.

First time I’ve seen a security tagged food item in a supermarket. Usually security protection has been reserved for bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks, and clothes.
Can the choice to add a security tag to an item tell us more about the perceived value of this item than its […]

The wonderful organisers of the IxDA Interaction 08 conference have just released video and audio from almost all talks in downloadable MP4/MP3 formats. If you’d like to download them to your iTunes/iPod/iPhone or whatever else supports podcasts, I’ve just managed to create two podcast RSS files that should make this possible:

Video (MP4) version: http://futureshape.net/ixda/IxDA-Interaction-08-Videos.xml
Audio (MP3) version: http://futureshape.net/ixda/IxDA-Interaction-08-Audio.xml

In […]

How does one (re-)launch a blog? Maybe with a bit of history?
Maybe not – if I put together a set of screenshots from all my previous attempts to establish a web presence, it would look even more bizarre than all those screenshots showing previous incarnations of Yahoo, Apple or the BBC. Needless to say, all those attempts were […]