Embracing digital friction - an opportunity for the cultural sector? Sharing Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters and Alexandra Barancová's design manifesto, 'Designing Friction', and some thoughts on how it could be useful for cultural organisations.
This week's best things Reports into 'the business of digital art' and 'community innovation', the first reviews of Apple's Vision Pro, the 'death of subscriptions', an interview with Sydney Opera House's Head of Screen, and Tracy Chapman at the Grammies.
This week's best things How to broaden arts audiences, rethinking the Dutch supermarket experience, the fallout from the Taylor Swift deepfake debacle, immersive thoughts and highlights, the early days of gaming and some...unusual web design.
What can we learn from Mark Thompson's vision for CNN? A longer read with some thoughts on the lessons that lie in Mark Thompson's new, digitally-enabled vision for CNN.
This week's best things Icelandic horses, the fallout from the cyber attack on the British Library, AR-assisted learning, the danger of digitising everything, the evolution of language, and the best of Bob Mortimer.
Remote self-service Self-service grocery shopping in the north of Sweden, and lessons for the cultural sector
This week's best things New ways of interacting with history, AI-powered dance, what the 1920s can teach us about hope, the rewards of beta testing, 15% solutions, and someone discovering Radiohead for the first time.
Hyper-specific conversations, and chaotic collaborations An update on some of the conversations I've been a part of in the collaborative R&D project, Venues of the Future.
100 days to the Digital Works Conference Today marks 100 days until the first Digital Works Conference which will be held in Leeds, at the Leeds City Museum.
This week's best things OpenAI licensing news content, the future of online audiences is niche, how to talk to AI, fighting the tyranny of small decisions, the phrase that ruled the Indian internet in 2023, and Tina Turner