Archives for April 2004
On Pets TV and working wallpaper... (April 29, 2004) From behind the mediaguardian registration wall comes this wonderful little weird nugget of BBC-ness: Pet TV is a service digital viewers can access by pressing the interactive red button on their remotes, for a week-long run from Saturday May 1....
Kill me before I finally snap... (April 28, 2004) So a friend of mine who I completely love is - well - he's not really at the cutting-edge of what's happening online. He normally chucks me links that have been around the web a couple of times in the...
A disease in the Breedster ecosystem... (April 25, 2004) There's so much I could write about Breedster if I had the time. I could write about the interesting way it handles new members (you have to put work in to getting food and finding a partner before you can...
A few boring Barbelith stats... (April 24, 2004) A few interesting Barbelith (temporarily closed for new members) stats which I compiled the other day whlie trying to avoid work. In the last month there have been 14846 undeleted posts on the site, made by around 900 unique user...
On MediaUnbound and recommendations engines... (April 22, 2004) I've been playing with a demo over on MediaUnbound, which is a music discovery engine that runs in Flash and assembles pseudo-radio players that are designed to meet your every musical need. The concept isn't particularly new, but I have...
Thoughts on magic, religion, metaphors and technology... (April 18, 2004) So this is one of those posts that nothing good can come from. This is because it's one of those posts that is inspired by something so profoundly clumsy and grotesquely insensitive that I stumbled upon elsewhere that I'm almost...
"We will now back down!" (April 16, 2004) There's a slightly Freudian typo in BBC News' latest article about the joint Blair / Bush press conference in the states. Or at least I assume it's a typo and Blair didn't just squeeze in a bit of a massive...
More fun from Radio and Music Interactive... (April 12, 2004) Those of you in the UK today may have stumbled upon Radio 1's Ten Hour Takeover - in which members of the listening public got to choose which songs were played - only using the magic telecommunicative power of text...
On incursions into fictional reality... (April 10, 2004) From Barbelith as found by Matt Jones: "...imagine what would happen to Pulp Fiction if, when the character of Jules looked into the briefcase, he "woke up" in mid-scene and not only realized that he was a character in a...
BBC releases Reith Lectures online as MP3s (April 8, 2004) For those of you who don't know, basically my job at the moment is to be one-half of a rapid-prototyping and R&D unit with Matt Webb over at the part of the BBC that handles the interactive aspects of the...
Sharing multiple digests could be kinja's killer app... (April 5, 2004) So I looked at Kinja and I was pretty impressed. I looked at it and saw something clean and simple that would hopefully appeal to people who find the morass of weblogs out there to be overwhelming. I thought it...
Precisely One Hour of House-Cleaning Music... (April 4, 2004) New concept - don't clean until your house is clean, instead merely allocate time to the cleaning process and clean until that time is over whether you finish or not. Also if you finish before the time is up (unlikely)...
