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I'm a digital strategist and user experience professional who's been working with the web for over twelve years. On this blog you'll mainly find links, opinions and the occasional piece of original research. Click here to read more about me.
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Planned books:
- The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books) by Hunter S. Thompson
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
Current books:
Recent books:
- Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business and Everyday L by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design by Lucy Bullivant
- T Zero (Harbrace Paperbound Library) by Italo Calvino
My latest tweets

- The city as interface (part two) http://bit.ly/9fwSfbabout 2 weeks ago
- What UX can learn from product strategy, and vice versa http://bit.ly/cr4u85about 3 weeks ago
- Encountering the future over an omelette http://bit.ly/aPS4Vjabout 4 weeks ago

Letter to my MP about Gary McKinnon
Jul 31st
Posted by brelson in politics
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As a constituent of yours, I’d like to register my disappointment with the decision regarding Gary McKinnon. I and many other voters had hoped that, under Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, the relationship between the US and the UK had progressed from the arguably dark days of the mid-2000s and that sufficient trust now existed [...]