Hello.
I’m Tom Armitage, and Infovore is my personal weblog. That’s me on the left, for reference. I’m in my mid-twenties, and I live and work in London.
I usually describe the majority of what I do as “making interesting things on the web”. That “making” takes several forms: from high-level product design, through information design and architecture to the code itself. Making is very important to me: much as I love the thought processes behind research and product-design, I hope that there will always be the chance to calcify those ideas into something that does something. I’m not a big fan of drawing pictures of websites.
I have a particular interest in social software and the modern web, and am also interested in the broader, more abstract issues emerging within technology right now. I’ve spoken at a few conferences, once or twice about code, more often about less concrete things, and have been engaged in various consultational roles on a variety of projects.
I don’t just write code, though. I’m also an occasional writer, a keen photographer, a reasonable cook, and have more than a passing interest in videogames – which I not only play, but have written, spoken, and run events about.
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 del.icio.us each day; most of the time, anything that ends up in del.icio.us is 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.
I hope you enjoy your reading.