Chris Quigley

The most exciting new place to sell aMaps is Ampleforth College and Monastery (my old school).  The “Does God exist?” aMap title was mostly inspired by my Theology lessons with Fr Timothy, so am super pleased that the Ampleforth shop is now stocking them.
When I was up in Yorkshire this weekend I popped into Ampleforth [...]

After a couple of months of sorting out point of sale plans for aMap – and most importantly, sorting out the “call to action” messaging, we’re ready to take aMap into shops!
The most recent shop to stock aMap is the Aarnolfini bookshop in Bristol – which is v.exciting.  So far they’ve been selling aMaps without [...]

So since our online launch back in Feb, we’ve been busy beavering away developing up the aMap product ready for full launch in to shops.  One of the key things we’ve been wrestling with is our “point of sale” device – or as we like to call them “Argument pods” – which we plan to [...]

I was sent these photos earlier in the week of some pretty happy customers enjoying the delights of aMaps (in slightly alternative ways)

Argument mapping is the visualisation of arguments according to “informal logic” – i.e. the logic structure used in everyday life – rather than formal logic – i.e. the kind that makes your mind boggle with its mathematical-like complexity, and the kind that made me fail my Philosophy exams at uni!
Informal logic is based around [...]

I’ve seen various people playing around with argument mapping over the last few years, but these guys at Argunet seem to have developed the most comprehensive online system so far.
Having had a play around the with the site and the software, it looks like a good crack at developing an interactive system – but is [...]

I was randomly chatting to my friend Jack the other day about argument visualisation, and he put me on the trail of other “information visualisation” people and interesting sites including:
Manuel Lima and Visualcomplexity.com – this is a kinda hub / collection of lots of different information visualisation projects / uses – covering technology (web 3.0 [...]

This is a argument classic from Monty Python

I’ve worked in Soho for around 2 years now – and surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) I’ve never been into a porn shop.
Until today.
After finally finding out of how to make book barcodes, and buying the software to create them, I then discovered that there are two types of barcode, and wasn’t quite sure which one to [...]

So things are a bit behind schedule.  The 3 main reasons for this are:
1) I’ve spent the last 2 weeks in the US indulging in sun, steak and Obama-mania
2) We were hit with a “where the f*ck do you get a barcode from” problem
3) I’ve been busy with my day job
Anyways, we’re slowing getting back [...]