One of my current pet hates: the phrase "infinte scroll". Never heard of it? Infinite scroll is used to describe websites where you scroll down a web page and content continues to appear as you scroll, um, down. As you scroll more content appears, as you scroll more

There's still mumblings about Ben Affleck being cast as Batman in whatever the sequel to Man of Steel is called. If the noise generated by fanboys was acknowledged then Affleck would be out. Someone else would be in. Who? God knows. There's too many alternatives. But

Unbelievable. Cool. Awesome. Some of the words used to describe how Casey Neistat decided to spend the $25,000 marketing budget for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on aid for victims of typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in early November. Neistat made a neat little film of his

Somewhere, out there, I have a half-written piece about how playing video games in my youth, my fights with our family microwave, and my frustrations with DVD menus around the turn of the century have helped set up and shape my mental framework for looking at interfaces. That full piece

There's some reasons I do log onto Facebook regularly. Those surprises that enlighten you. Some I subscribe to. Humans of New York, for one (more of which later). Some I don't. This morning doing the rounds is a link about how "wrong" a recent

Yesterday I was talking about a stickier internet, experiences that you spend time with and that reward you. This morning I listened to the latest WNYC New Tech City podcast about the Cicada 3301 mystery.  Taking its cue from a recent Daily Telegraph article the podcast explored a series of

I'm not keen on retrospective "the year that was" pieces. I'm not being ironic, nor awkward. Handily though 2013 does mark a 12 month period that showed the internet starting to become a more interesting and engaging place again, rising up from being a