Paper Bits

Mar 9

“Another example of evocative digital traces: accessing your phone’s maps application for the first time since returning from an overseas trip, you find the map application still centred on that foreign place. From your home town of Milan, say, you are briefly transported back to a memory of Hamburg for a stolen moment, represented as a vaguely familiar cached urban form, before an orbiting satellite relocates the app from Hauptbahnhof back to Navigli, gliding across space, time and memory in seconds. These are the grains of sand in the suitcase…” In praise of lost time - Design - Domus (via iamdanw)

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Jun 12

quartey:

Agreed. Imagine this applied to airline boarding passes, so that your boarding pass updates if your departure date or time changes - no more running across the airport because you didn’t hear the announcement in time.

Or how about price stickers in shops? You wouldn’t need to walk around with a price gun, updating prices every week.

These things are all true, and excellent business cases for an innovative technology.

But really? I just want to search and summon my online library of cards out onto my desk where they used to live, at will.

I’ve wanted that since 2005. It’s insanely frustrating that, six years later, we still don’t have all the pieces to make it work.

Nov 3

Papernet Pattern: Data Shadows

See also Dave on Information Shadows for a more refined and just plain overall better exploration of the idea.

Oct 31

Stickybits attaches your location to public tags

This is why stickybits makes me uncomfortable in its approach:

Not comfortable at all with full address being broadcast, want to delete but can’t log in.

I downloaded the app for iPhone but was slightly shocked to see my full address, including correct house number, posted with the first thing I tagged…

This is what you get when a company tries to turn the equivalent of HTML’s a tag into a product.