Amongst all that I am supposed to do as an ordained minister is the fact that in my ordination I made a vow to be a good student of all that will deepen my faith and fit me to bear witness to the truth of the gospel. I am also a curate and therefore still [...]
As part of my dissertation work, I have come across an extremely interesting pamphlet called The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte. Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale and he is something of a guru, it seems, on statistical evidence, analytical design and interface design. In the extremely readable pamphlet, Tufte eviscerates the use [...]
I’m less in touch with the bleeding edge of technology than I once was (and I was never that bleeding edge at the best of times) but I was interested to hear the news that those clever technology geeks are working on putting digital projection equipment into mobile phones. There’s some very obvious business applications [...]
Rob Ryan alerted me to this post by Matt Rees about ‘technology and presence’ featuring a fantastic photo of Barack Obama and his good lady surrounded by a sea of mobile phone screens lit-up while they all try and photograph the moment. It’s an interesting question as to when technology gets in the way of [...]
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