Picnic conference just passed, and it was good to see some old friends return and a few locals come back from their holidays. Ben gave a fantastic talk on “Play”, while Robert did a great job on the “portable social networks” session which was packed. Let’s hope after all the hubbub dies down that the crews from Jaiku and Twitter follow through with their promises and others continue to focus on making some kind of protocol to enable portable social networks to become a reality!

This last week has been a chin-down-get-on-with-it kinda time to complete all outstanding work and clear the decks for leaving for a small vacation. For those of you who don’t know, i’ve been working on:

Fuga
Where i work 2 days a week as an interaction designer and usability guy, where we are working hard on solving supply-chain problems in the music business as it digitizes rapidly.

Actics
Yes, the graphic design kinda sucks, but ethics as social objects combined to issues, people and groups is a proving a fascinating design challenge. Again…wishing/praying the web-design improves over there.

In the works is also an update for BeroepsEer. This is a network site that is helping support public sector workers across different sectors deal with continual change. Many people serving the government are feeling undervalued and their skills underutilized. It’s a place for them to drop their knowledge, report problems and suggest ideas.

There’s also a buzz running through our Roomware project. Really excited to see where this leads.

Enjoy the autumn leaves. I’ll be doing that too, and see you all soon!