Archives for February 2005
Panels I wish I could attend at SXSW... (February 28, 2005) Here is a brief list of some of the panels I would be particularly interested in if I could go to SXSW, which I can't since I'm going to - and speaking at - ETech instead: No Absolutes: Social Software...
Links for 2005-02-28 (February 28, 2005) Siobhan's Diary on Dancing Orange Pixies I'm somebody's blogdad. That's so cool. (categories: weblog) Interesting post on Google toolbar's zip code autolink feature "What if my Yahoo page turned Google Adsense links to Overture ones? Would you be cool...
Links for 2005-02-27 (February 27, 2005) Social Software in the Academy Workshop "The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working in a variety of academic disciplines to understand current and possible uses of social software in the academic context." (categories: danahboyd socialsoftware...
A brief word on a Flickr logo... (February 26, 2005) Spotted this morning for logged-in members of Flickr (along with a very snazzy top navigation bar that I am muchly liking), this piss-take / lawsuit-baiting logo saturated with irony and litigation-potential. Very funny. Highly enjoyable. Just one question: Can this...
Links for 2005-02-26 (February 26, 2005) Wired News on Kottke going pro has a particularly nice section explaining Jason's feelings about advertising "But eschewing advertisers is more of a risk. Kottke is avoiding them because, as a one-man operation, there's no easy way to neatly...
Links for 2005-02-25 (February 25, 2005) R.I.P. Gold iPod Mini Extraordinary fluff piece from BBC News on the death of the Gold iPod mini further cements the iconic stature of the Apple MP3 players (categories: ipod bbc bbcnews fluff)...
Three stunning articles in the Guardian this morning... (February 24, 2005) This would probably be something better suited for the linklog, but the sheer incidence of really interesting articles in the Guardian's combined Life/Online supplement today bears extended comment. Sometimes each section has a bit of an off-week, but not today!...
Links for 2005-02-24 (February 24, 2005) The Mapping of a Cat's Brain Been everywhere meme that I liked despite myself... (categories: humour cats funny) A man listens to "Dancing Queen" around a hundred times on a five hour journey ... and nothing much happens. Intriguing...
Kottke goes pro... (February 22, 2005) Not a lot to say about this, even though I'm fascinated by the whole enterprise - Jason Kottke has quit his job and is taking the weblogging gig to a new professional level. He's not going to take advertising, instead...
Links for 2005-02-22 (February 22, 2005) Strindberg & helium The agony is intolerable... This is what it's like to live inside my brain... (categories: flash funny comedy auguststrindberg cartoon animation) Hunter S Thompson commits suicide "Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found...
Links for 2005-02-21 (February 21, 2005) 300 islands in the shape of the world - a unique investment opportunity, and also the freakiest fucking thing I've ever heard of... Mark my words - the aspiration of humankind is to make the real world like Second...
Links for 2005-02-20 (February 20, 2005) A new version of FTP client Transmit has come out I've been getting cross with Fetch recently. I think maybe it's time to switch... (categories: transmit ftp osx application apple panic) Read Regular - an asymmetrical sans serif font...
Two books around weblogging... (February 19, 2005) Just spotted by me (remember I've been kind of off the radar for a year) - a couple of intriguing looking books around the whole weblogging thing. First off there's a kids book called The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez...
ABC biscuit bundle... (February 19, 2005) A week or two ago I put out an appeal for my childhood favourite biscuits, and now I have Nico Lumma to thank for the appearance of packet upon packet of the beautiful things. Thanks dude! Anyway, the consequence of...
On trying to get an image right... (February 19, 2005) A long time ago during all the Warchalking palaver, I got interested in the idea of trying to find imagery that might convey they concept of an available wifi network to people. Warchalking obviously had its utility - it was...
Links for 2005-02-17 (February 17, 2005) Colin Cunningham very occasionally plays a minor character in Stargate In the series, he seems kind of neat. On his acting site, he looks like a tit. Reality is such a disappointment... (categories: colincunningham actor stargatesg1 stargate entertainment)...
On doing two papers at ETech 2005 (February 15, 2005) Hm. The O'Reilly ETech button on the right there doesn't really look very comfortable on the page, does it? All looks a bit showy and ostentatious. It's just the wrong width, really. Ah well. Never mind. I've actually been meaning...
Three things I wrote ages ago on weblogs, publishing and community... (February 15, 2005) For a variety of reasons I've been digging up some old stuff on the publishing of weblogs that I've written on this site of for conferences or whatever, and I thought I'd reference them again here because I was surprised...
Links for 2005-02-14 (February 14, 2005) A flash movie that explores the complexities of life and death in the X-men universe I thought Hypertime was supposed to have sorted all this crap out... Oops, wrong company... (categories: flash funny cartoon xmen superheroes comicbooks)...
Links for 2005-02-11 (February 11, 2005) Spotted: Christopher Lloyd playing Laurence Lessig on the West Wing Being possibly one of the strangest things I've seen on TV for a very very long time... (categories: television laurencelessig westwing)...
Vivid creepy dreams of alien technology... (February 10, 2005) I had a dream last night about a beautiful tower that no one could see on a suburban street, and the strange alien called Coypew that lived there. He could see the future so he told parents to euthanise children...
Links for 2005-02-08 (February 8, 2005) Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac? "It's a game of numbers, after all. Anti-Mac pundits always mutter the same thing as they...
Links for 2005-02-07 (February 7, 2005) People discuss my emotional state at dinner parties Which is a little strange. I wonder what conclusions they came to? (categories: stalker scary humour alarm tomcoates eep) Commentary links my recent rants on refactoring weblogs to Marc Canter's concept...
A desperate plea for biscuits... (February 6, 2005) What follows is pretty much the archetypical weblog post. I mean it doesn't have cats in it or anything, but it's the next best thing. It's like practically award-winningly archetypical. You want to give someone a lifetime achievement award for...
Amazon's Top 10 Secrets of a Successful Website... (February 5, 2005) You'll like this. Small post. Don't really do so many of those any more, but this one has three links in it so I can't stick it into del.icio.us. Oops. Four links. It starts with a little tiny post at...
Links for 2005-02-05 (February 5, 2005) John Rawl's Veil of ignorance "Imagine that societal roles were completely re-fashioned and redistributed, and that from behind your veil of ignorance you do not know what role you will be reassigned. Only then can you truly consider the...
Links for 2005-02-04 (February 4, 2005) Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled. Ah well... Lost is better anyway... "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions...
On hybridised RSS feeds as evidence of a need for weblog refactoring... (February 2, 2005) Right then - I feel a bit like I've got the wind behind me and it might not last so I'm going to plough right on into another subject before the demons of fear crawl up my leg. Dave Shea's...
On the iPod and shortsightedness on the Microsoft estate... (February 2, 2005) I have enormous performance anxiety at the moment. The world's turned to look this way for a few scant moments and everyone else is rising to the challenge and I'm just hiding. And it looks like I'm not the only...
Links for 2005-02-02 (February 2, 2005) Microsoft plan to call EU version of Windows something like: Windows XP - dorky EU edition for losers and whiny people... I may have made that up a bit, but only a bit. (categories: windows windowsxp microsoft eu)...
Links for 2005-02-01 (February 1, 2005) A parody of the latest issue of new ETech patron saint, Iron Man Warren Ellis is taking Iron Man in a fascinating direction, based around the contemporary tech community. But not everyone's as thrilled by that as me... (categories:...
