This week's best things
Generative poetry, AI hypocrisy, women in tech leadership, immersive funding, access to French 3D scans, new AirPod features, teenage burnout, TikTok harms, GTA Paisley, perceptions of time, and a load of TV
Topic
digital experiences
A collection of 20 issues
This week's best things
An experiment from the BBC, should orchestras be more like Netflix, thoughts on what happens next with search, Instagram makes teen accounts private by default, a psychologist on how to deal with social media, thoughts on AI, is this blue, a good book, and a superb video installation.
This week's best things
Watershed's 5 guiding principles which turned a deficit into profit, the invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat, a new audio-only social media app, new ways of engaging with artists, synthetic social networks, Instagram's ad revenues, AI girlfriends, and rats driving cars.
Digital? Non-digital? It doesn't matter when it comes to good ideas.
Reflections on and lessons from creative r&d workshops in the Netherlands.
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
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.
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
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.
Novel perspectives, emotional proximity, and working out what we take for granted
Thinking about what digital is good at.