Team blog

I’m pleased to say that tonight’s mini-launch event at Demos seemed to go down very well.  I only had a very quick 5 minute spot to talk about aMap, however I think (given it was my first public presentation) I managed to get over the main features of aMap.  The table full of aMaps were [...]

This evening at the Bettr and Social Innovation Camp joint drinks we’ll be launching aMap to the education community.  This is an exciting time for us have slaved over aMap for the last couple of years.  If you’re around do come along – kick off is at 6.30 at Demos’ office near London Bridge.
Over the [...]

So for the past week amongst the million other things on my plate at the mo, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time testing the aMap site and widget.  The team (ben, dan, nigel, allen and laura) have finally managed to get the site live on the amap.org.uk – which is v.cool + now [...]

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 [...]

So, this week is a big push week to finish the content of our first 5 aMaps – and get them printed.
The main content of the maps has been 99% finished – though I’ll be sitting down with my friend (and copywriter) Michael J Flexer to make the final tweaks to the content.
The writing of [...]