My article on gestural interfaces Wave Goodbye to the Mouse is up on the Futurelab website.

My review of 1831 Riot!, a locative media project from Mobile Bristol, is up on Digital Lifestyles.

by Peter Ferne, Technology Strategy Consultant, NESTA Futurelab
for the Broadband Stakeholder Group report
Future Thinking - Visions for Broadband Britain in 2010.

Kids turned out to be a lot more respectful of each others work than of the output of industrial scale entertainment factories. The first blip on the radar was the surprise outbreak of cc tags on everything from street graffiti to school work back in 2004. The tags represented and embodied the Creative Commons licences which allowed us to say how and how far we were happy for other people to copy our work, make their own stuff out of it and give us credit. In effect we said “You can rip me but don't dis me.”

OK, so it was a bit of a shambles (it's remarkably difficult to dance the conga in silence *in time with other people*) and there were more than a few journalists there (Sky News, BBC News Online, Radio 5, Evening Post, maybe others) many of whom took part, but not bad for a first attempt.

Not quite a random act of senseless beauty but close.

Wandering around Marcus Brigstocke's site after following the link to the Pacman joke in this week's NTK I found a picture of MB (without the glasses) and immediately thought - Matt Jones! (without the beard).

Found this: Christopher Alexander Pattern Language Repository, useful despite a few typo's - actually I suspect they are OCR errors.

Many of the patterns are available in English but some are only available in German.

Steven Johnson has a blog entry about the virtues of short blocks and how they might be a metaphor for the blogosphere, picking up on his excellent talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference 2002. This sent me scurrying to my copy of the wonderful A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander to see if there were any related patterns. The closest is no. 61 Small Public Squares. This has some interesting discussion of sizes of squares and pedestrian density.

OK, I have to admit to not quite having got into the swing yet of regularly updating which is pretty much at the core of the whole weblog thang. I've actually just been installing SnipSnap here because the combination of weblog and wiki seems very appealing and I think most of the stuff that I want to log is better suited to the wiki approach. Having said that of course it's still empty as I speak, or is it?

I've been inspired by Matt Jones' warchalking card to propose a fourth glyph for NoCatAuth nodes: