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Popup Ecozoo

July 17, 2008

I’m a great fan of pop-ups. I use them in teaching interaction design. I have a skeleton for a book that goes like this “computing interactivity is based on the ultimate in paper based design from 30 years ago – the library card or bank book. Most of our HCI aims to replicate that database […]

Saw Naples

March 4, 2008

Roger Bowden was my partner in geography. In a large group of second year geographers in 1989 there were only a few physical geographers and of that, only two biogeographers. One of them liked soils (Roger), the other plants (me). In third year Roger and I, along with Di Twaddle and Sharon Jack, did our […]

Green criteria in purchasing – an example

February 29, 2008

Here is another example of a tender document we responded to last week. This one from a quasi-governmental organisation in NZ (there’s lots of good example statements coming from the Govt3 programme). xxx is committed to sustainable development, and will seek to procure sustainable products, works and services wherever possible. Ref Description Requirement Response […]

Software ecosystem, greenwash or new understanding?

February 17, 2008

Last week Computerworld reported IDC’s annual top ten predictions for the NZ computing industry. Number one is the impact of the skills crisis in NZ computing slowing investment. Number five is: Green IT – issues behind the hype will shine through What interests me most is their repeated use of the term “ecosystem”: 3. Emergence […]

Stunning but sensationalist

December 14, 2007

I’ve have had the same fat white computer monitor on my desk for 5 years. My co-worker just got a new computer. She has a flat shiny sleek flat screen monitor. It matches her computer, it matches her phone, even her pen stand. [It looks cool.] She looks like she is driving in space ship […]