technology

Articles

  • 16th July 2010

    Baffling Black Boxes

    The Reith Lectures are an annual series of lectures given by a significant contemporary figure and broadcast by the BBC. This year's lectures, given by Professor Martin Rees, focused on the challenges faced by humans in the 21st century, and how science might help to overcome these challenges.
  • 13th July 2010

    What I Learned at Flickr

    A quick recap of my visit to see the lovely people at Flickr in March of this year. This continues the theme of articles I should have written months ago, but didn't. Short version: Flickr loves you and your photos - for keeps.
  • 15th April 2010

    Superhero

    Once Upon a Time there was a Superhero…
  • 26th October 2009

    Alchemy is a Risky Strategy

    This is a brief prelude to a series of articles I'm writing on the ongoing management of web sites and services; some friendly advice on being very honest with yourself or your client when an idea is just, well, bad.
  • 23rd June 2008

    Staying Relevant in Tech Industries

    There are some incredibly talented people working in technology, design, business - and I wondered how do these people stay so fresh, so highly skilled and so motivated when the nature of their industry and their business changes so quickly and so often. So I asked them; and gave a talk at Barcamp Belfast 2008 to discuss the findings.
  • 16th June 2008

    Barcamp Belfast 2008

    I'll be presenting at BarCamp Belfast. Notionally the topic is: "Everything You Know is Likely to be Wrong - Perspectives on creating value and remaining relevant in the technology industry." Should be fun! I'll post slides, notes and photos here next week.
  • 29th March 2007

    The Stuff of Dreams

    If you haven't seen Jeff Han's Multitouch Interface then you really, really should.

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  • Clay Shirky
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  • Jean Aw
  • My Chair Runs Linux
  • Front
  • In-Flight Entertainment
  • Laser Cutter
  • Hand Scanner?
  • Survey - Network Layer 38
  • Apple is *Everywhere*
  • Empty Shop
  • Floor Game
  • RFID Access Control
  • Door Camera
  • It Works :)
  • Telephone
  • Light Sensor Thing
  • Radio Antenna
  • Surveillance Cameras
  • Dude with Camera
  • Thermostat, Air Conditioning
  • Leaves of Green
  • Flickr Indexing
  • John's Grill
  • Tad's Broiled Steaks
  • Golden Gate Bridge
  • Reality
  • Amen to That
  • Yahoo Party
  • Chess Players
  • Fiction
  • Apple Pie With Cheese
  • Yahoo Party
  • Breakfast
  • Heart
  • Ireland Connects @ The W
  • Tim O'Reilly
  • Matt Jones - Dopplr
  • Dan Lyons - Fake Steve Jobs
  • Matt Mullenweg - Automattic

Tweets

  • Happy Birthday Mario! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/sep/13/games-gameculture

    13th September 2010

  • @EmilyTully I think we both agree. It's just crap. Ghetto-ise technology as magic for the whizz-kids and treat your audience like fools. Yay

    23rd July 2010

  • @EmilyTully The effect is that technology is covered as though it's unknowable magic that comes from far away, not for the "likes of us".

    23rd July 2010

  • @EmilyTully I disagree; plenty of journalists understand technology - they choose to dumb it down for a "mainstream audience".

    23rd July 2010

  • Some amazing Speech Technology research being demonstrated, discussed at U of Edinburgh

    21st January 2010

  • @jordanmoore filthy nerds with their technology! keep it on the top shelf I say.

    2nd October 2009

  • Oh for the love of all that is good - IE6 to live until 2014. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8196242.stm

    13th August 2009
A small photo of The Author with some lovely tea by way of a witty footer
Paul May is a designer and UX consultant from Dublin, Ireland; he is currently a student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Feel free to directly (or you can use the contact form). You can also get him on twitter or flickr. Paul enjoys writing in the third person.