Hello.
I’m Tom Armitage, and Infovore is my personal weblog. That’s me on the left, for reference. I’m in my twenties, and I live and work in London.
I’m a game designer, working at Hide & Seek. I also make things out of words and code. I’ve previously described myself as a ‘technologist’, which is a reasonable description – I’m a good prototyper, bodger, and hacker; code is a big part of my toolbox, but it’s very much a means to an end. In the end, I think by making, and so making is a big part of my practice.
As well as my work, I bash things together on the web in my spare time. Perhaps the most popular thing I’ve built is the (entirely unofficial and unsanctioned) Tower Bridge twitter bot.
About Infovore
Infovore is a weblog. Its posts fall into a variety of high-level categories – topics I tend to write about a lot – and are also tagged to provide a slightly fuzzier categorisation. You can see the kind of subjects I’m interested in at the archives.
I also store up lots of links on pinboard each day; most of the time, anything that ends up there something I’ve read, rather than something I’m merely linking to for later. These links are published to my blog once a day, just before midnight, and may give you a rough idea of where my brain is on a particular day.
Infovore is not my first weblog. I started that, entitled tajmahal, in late Februrary 2001. Powered by Blogger, it was a mixture of links, commentary, and personal journal. It ceased in July 2003, when I finished my undergraduate degree, and began Infovore. It’s not online at the moment; I may change that, if I ever have the time to incorporate all that content.
Infovore, like the web itself, is a work in progress. It is slowly altering over time; its content and publication schedule regularly rises and falls. The changing nature of the blog is perhaps best seen in its visual design, which has evolved over time and changes roughly every time I feel my writing – and thinking – needs a kickstart and a better outlet. Over time, I think a vague pattern is emerging, and some degree of focus is being gained.