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What the world really needs is more of this kind of awesomeness.

I can’t believe I haven’t been reading Russell Davies’ blog forever, but I’m increasingly ending up somehow on that site, coming across wonderful nuggets of wisdom and aggregations of various zeitgeists and it never fails to be insightful and inspiring.

I’m 6 months behind everyone else, but just read his posts The New Schtick and Meet The New Schtick Part 2 (aka Excitement of Paper). Great stuff, and as good an exposition of “post-digital design” as you’ll find anywhere.

(The more astute readers may have sussed that I’m writing a proper post for once out of guilt, rather than my typical delicious-based link-logging. Well spotted. I’m killing a bit of time, sitting on a wifi-enabled train on the soon-to-be-nationalised East Coast Line, winging my way from Edinburgh to London for Sketching’09. I notice the staff announcements are referring to us as “passengers” again, as opposed to the horrendous “customers” that I could never get used to. Perhaps the revolution is already in motion, brothers and sisters. )

Discourse around the Internet of Things meme seems to be swelling again, at least in Europe.

Rob van Kranenburg has just published The Internet of Things: A Critique of Ambient Technology and the all-seeing Network of RFID, as part of the Network Notebooks series from the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. Interesting to see that this also includes a chapter on the global Bricolabs network that Rob’s been helping to establish, bringing togethether activists, makers and facilitators in the realm of open source hardware, software and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the EU Commision has also recently put out a report on Future Communications and the Internet, as well as organising a ministerial conference 6-7 October.

The Lavaflower by Gudrun Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir (Studiobility). Waterjet-cut Icelandic lava.

CBI Exhibition stand for Siemens. Sam Buxton with Luminous. Laser-cut Stainless Steel.

Mikroworld series by Sam Buxton. Acid-etched Stainless Steel.

Stag Clock by Fly-Pitcher. Laser-cut composite & Rosewood.