Co-working Creatives In Dubai

Getting self-referential for a minute, I’ve talked here before about the tyranny of expensive space here in Singapore for startup creatives and also about the co-working space The Change You Want To See, in Williamsburg, NYC.
I know I go on about it a bit, but it’s a pet subject of mine. I was reading something [...]

Coworking, Public Spaces and Sniff

This is SNIFF, an interactive work by Karolina Sobecka and Jim George.
“As you walk down the street you are approached by a dog. He is on his guard trying to discern your intentions. He will follow you and interpret your gestures as friendly or aggressive. He will try to engage you in a relationship and [...]

Without You They’re All Lost

I’m a working father of a 5 year old cat.
I’ve thought about taking on more responsibility, perhaps a Rottweiler or Doberman, but we’ll be moving to a small inner-city apartment soon and our carefully drawn floor-plans indicate that our new lounge room is so small that even reading a book on the couch is only [...]

Everyday Superheroes

I’ve been involved in a community project for the past 2 weeks that’s had me stationed in a field in Bishan.
I’ve been totally humbled by the wonderful people around me. All volunteers, many of them were there from 8.30am until midnight every day, sometimes taking responsibility for fairly quiet and repetitive tasks. Nothing was ever [...]

SheepTool – Remote Group Decision Interface

“SheepTool offers a better, more natural alternative to videoconferencing. At meeting time, everyone logs onto a shared virtual workspace and opens up a communal audio connection, the Bleatspace. At the same time, a round field is shown onscreen, and clustered in the middle are icons that represent each participant, consisting of nothing more than a [...]

What Does It Take To Make A Kid Happy?

I don’t want to be one of those “you think you’ve got it bad…” people, but I followed a link from Inhabitat today to Avik Maitra’s blog. Please visit. There’s only a couple of posts a month and it’s a great lesson in perspective.
He’s an American architecture student doing some time in Lilongwe, Malawi, as [...]

Do It In The Dark For Singapore

The lovely people at Treehugger have listed Singapore as one of their 7 Hidden Eco-gems: Under-theRadar Cities Worth a Visit.
Apparently nearly 50 percent of our land is green space, and the planned downtown eco-complex by Foster + Partners is receiving its share of worldwide attention.
The ranking is subjective, but they took into account:

Good streets for [...]

Charter For Compassion

I wanted to draw your attention to a short video that went live on the web a few days ago. If you have some spare surfing time then please do click through and have a look. It’s very inspiring.
It marks the launch of a global endeavor to celebrate compassion and promote collaboration between the world’s [...]

Human Mirror

Yet another slideshare powerpoint extolling the wondrous benefits of companies getting into places where people are chatting and enjoying themselves to flog themselves and their products made me sigh today. I’m sure it’s just a phase and I’ll be back to my content-providing, relationship-enhancing self in no time. It really wasn’t a bad deck. The [...]

3 Solid Reasons to Fill Your Home (office, car, briefcase…) With Widget Love

You’ve pimped your blog. Your desktop has cartoons-of-the-day, news as it happens and random cute dog pictures from Flickr. When you start your browser you go off to make a cup of tea while the feeds load on your homepage. So what’s next for widgets?
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict [...]