September 2005

New writing section

by Andy Polaine on September 30, 2005

So, I’m thinking of moving to WordPress (shock horror – after all that hassle setting up MT?) as I quite like the Page/Post structure of it. in the meantime, I testing it out with my writing, which I hope to upload more of (cleaning up the Word/HTML code takes ages, even with some tools). So, check it out here.

Tagged as: Writing

At the REFRESH! conference in Banff.

by Andy Polaine on September 29, 2005

I’m currently in Banff in Canada for the REFRESH! conference. It looks like an interesting line-up of people here to dissect new media’s often troubled relationship with galleries and museums (amongst other things). It is being held at the very lovely Banff New Media Institute in the Banff Centre.

If you’re keen you can watch the conference being streamed from here.

Tagged as: Research

New Feedburner Feed

September 15, 2005

I’ve changed my subscription feed to a Feedburner feed (see the link in the sidebar) in an attempt to tidy things up a bit. Subscriptions to the old feed should re-direct, but nothing ever works like it should. Anyway, give it a whirl and let me know if it doesn’t work. And if you don’t [...]

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Why Apple’s iPod design is smarter than it looks

September 10, 2005

John Welch’s article about iDevelopers creating accessories for the iPod is enlightening. He makes a great case (no pun intended, and if you don’t get it, read his article) for why accessory manufacturers aren’t making them for anyone else much – basically, you need 3-4 templates for any of the iPods to date, but for [...]

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