— I'm Timothy Greig. I live in Wellington, New Zealand, and work
for AIM Proximity. I'm interested in game design, information architecture, librarianship, and transmedia storytelling. Updates? — Try the RSS.

“Games give you hand-eye coordination and spatial intelligence together with map reading skills” Aussie comedy trio Tripod explain musically why video games are more important than other things.

“You can call them criminals and use the law and technology to block them, or encourage them by making a wide range of material available that gives them a better understanding of their past and a better opportunity to say something about the future.”

“Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.” Awesome visualization of the network activated by a blog post!

I’ve wanted a Flip Clock for a long time, and I finally got one just the other weekend. It was the only one in the store and (what luck!) a beautiful rich orange color. I love the weird mix: analogue workings – yet digital display. See photos on flickr.

I’ve just finished reading this excellent book on John Maeda’s ten ‘Laws of Simplicity’. Maeda is an excellent teacher, and his ideas are easy to grasp as he makes them very memorable through the use of lively anecdote, acronym, and subtle repetition.