culture
Instagram may be having a more profound effect on our culture than we think. First, people started creating dishes just for Instagram. And now? > Now some entrepreneurs are taking the idea a step further, designing their physical spaces in the hopes of inspiring the maximum number of photos. They’
pop up people
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/IMG_0844 - Version 2.jpg) If you’re interested in our urban infrastructure, Julian Dobson is always worth a read. His latest post is a good summary of the challenges facing various initiatives to regenerate our high streets [http://livingwithrats.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/
B2B
Estates Gazette's editor on the property world embracing the tablet.
estates gazette
My old stomping ground is getting tablet-ready
conferences
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124385392@N01/5592020553] If you thought I was quiet towards the end of last week and over the weekend, there was a good reason why: I was preparing myself to open the RICS Social Media Conference 2011. It was very lovely of the Royal Institution
estates gazette
Today, I was going to do a post about the blogstorm in Cardiff over John Lewis, leases and independent shops. But I gave it to Stacey as a guest post instead. It’s probably more at home amongst property folks, but I’m sure some of you will enjoy it,
london
Laura McBride from Estates Gazette has just been on a helicopter flight over the Olympics site. This set of photos is the result: via [Paul Norman’s Olympics Blog](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/olympics/2010/02/helicopter-view-of-olympic-park.html)
Martin Hanczyc is working with Protocells – organic computers programmed through chemistry. Some of them have architectural features – making physical products. You can make shells, or other shapes. She’s showing a demo of what she calls very basic chemistry, as a protocell moves into ferrofluids and creates magnetites…When they
be2camp
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/08/IMG_1014-1382.html] I’m up in Birmingham for [be2camp](http://be2camp.ning.com/page/be2camp-brum), a bar camp style event for the built environment industry.Live blogging will commence soon…
architecture
Those of you who remember my days as a property journalist (and indeed, when this blog was substantially [about the built environment](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/property_architecture/)) might be interested to know that I’m off to [Be2camp Brum](http://be2camp.ning.com/page/be2camp-brum) the week after
commercial property
Here’s the Olympics site in east London, as shot from a train on the new iPhone 3GS: [The Olympics Site, Stratford](http://vimeo.com/5269016) from [Adam Tinworth](http://vimeo.com/adders) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).Quite impressive, for a phone. If I had a Flip Mino rather
Blogging
Property is often seen as a particular glacial industry in terms of waking up to new technology but there is no question that our readers expect to receive their news via the web and expect to be able to access podcasts, vodcasts and blogs as part of that experience. [MIPIM