A fundamental miss understanding of fan ownership

THe way people use devices seems to me… moving further and further away from the way a lot of software wants you to function. From hiding export options, to completly hidden gestures or swipes that are anyones guess, even moving my URL bar from the top to the bottom without asking… thankfully firefox iOS offers a preference and may have even onboard the option to change, not safari

I decided to try wavelength to record an audio narration of one of my blog posts and then copied the resulting code and deleted the extra post. I will try and do this for my long form posts at least. I liked the idea from a substack I saw today and of course accessibility.

Audio Version

From Feb I will be the brand new Interim Head of an also brand new Department of Art & Media Technology at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Hopefully if successful I will be able to make it a more permanent role (application and interview dependant)

But from Feb to August I will still be Programme leader for BA Games Design & Art so I will be pretty busy however I have plans…

At the end of Jan I should have internally submitted my PhD text and come the end of March be waiting on my viva dates hopefully end of Easter / early summer so come Sept I will finally officially be Dr. Procter.

So if things go to plan I could be a Doctor running a new department with some exciting approaches to technology and humans from October.

As anyone who has read my blog or knows me I am very keen to push back on big tech, surveillance capitalism and this is something that has been my conversation piece to enable me to be given the interim role so embedding ethical and humane technology thinking and criticality in the new Department will be fundemental.

The Department already has amazing staff and students and a brilliant set of programmes of study.

Combine this with new structures and new programmes to come starting in earnest in October 2022 it is all pretty exciting.

Much hard work to come but it feels like an exciting new chapter awaits.

Of course I’ll keep people up to date on my blog if it all falls apart 🤣😬 or not 😊🙌

nodenogg.in 0.1.42 is out fixes to z-index and now you can colour code your nodes 👍

Onboarding via zoom screen share was a little bumpier than expected maybe @manton worth revisiting this to help win over people. If I was thinking I should have loom recorded the screen anyway @mrmurphy is now up and running

bricks and mortar education

This is the same micro cast as the last post but this time I took the wav file from Audio Hijack that was direct from my microphone, dropped this into logic added a couple of chapter markers and used forcast to encode and add art work.

This is the direct capture of the discord app audio as an mp3 file from Audio Hijack.