Archives for March 2005
Links for 2005-03-31 (March 31, 2005) Flickr Related Tag Browser - by the creators of the Flickr Postcard BrowserThis must have been everywhere in the last couple of days, but hey. Love it. Awesome. Beautiful. The Smiths set for academic study"Morrissey has enjoyed an up-and-down...
More on the Warwick Blogs marketing... (March 29, 2005) After talking about the awesome publicity surround the Warwick Blogs project the other day, John Dale sent me a link to the full design treatments. There's some stunning stuff in there. As I said the other day, I think it's...
Links for 2005-03-26 (March 26, 2005) The editor of BBC News Online comments about the cuts at the BBCFor us it means a proposal to close about 12 journalism posts directly related to this website in the coming year. We have yet to finalise our...
On being on the panel at Blogs in Action... (March 25, 2005) Last night I was the opening act of a sexy little conference about how people might use weblogs that Alastair Shrimpton of the UK branch of Six Apart was hosting at the Polish club near Imperial College. I was a...
Links for 2005-03-25 (March 25, 2005) Banksy improves some of New York's finest museums "Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation."...
Links for 2005-03-24 (March 24, 2005) Phil Gyford writes about Flickr for BBC News (and talks to Timo and me as well) "It's about capturing moments - things your eyes have got caught on - and doing what you'd do to a friend if they...
Social Software for Set-Top boxes... (March 23, 2005) You can download the core part of the material that follows as a PDF presentation entitled Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb). A buddy-list for television: Imagine a buddy-list on your television that you could bring onto your screen with...
Preamble towards a post on Social Software for Set-top boxes (March 23, 2005) The following post contains some of my thoughts about Social Software for Set-Top Boxes. But before I do so, I thought maybe I should write really briefly about some of the context. I've been thinking around this stuff for a...
A few images of sunrises... (March 23, 2005) So catch-up time. We left the Farmer's Daughter hotel on Sunday morning, wandered around the mall a bit (completely exhausted), and then managed to get ourselves to the airport and on the way back home. I think we were all...
Two notes about Barbelith... (March 23, 2005) So after a conversation with Chris Heathcote earlier today, it has occured to me that I should let people know about the current status of Barbelith and remind people about some old bits of functionality that we had in the...
Links for 2005-03-22 (March 22, 2005) Whaleflip is a happy Greenpeace game of whales saving submarines The blue whales extrude bubbles, the pink ones pulse elevating noises. It's easier than it sounds... (categories: denisewilton)...
Links for 2005-03-20 (March 20, 2005) It's not funny because it's rude, it's funny cos...Well because it looks like it's funny because it's rude... Lions in coffee creamBeautiful, elegant and I hope it was intentional Mediocre reviews for Daft Punk's new album: Human After AllI'll...
I'm going to get lynched... (March 19, 2005) Oh shit. I think I just woke up everyone else I'm staying in the hotel with by sticking headphones into my Mac, pressing play and then ramping up the volume when nothing appeared to happen - forgetting that the computer...
In which my mind starts to settle after ETech 2005... (March 19, 2005) I'm in Los Angeles now at the glorious little Farmer's Daughter Hotel near the Farmer's Market with Manar, Webb and Biddulph. It is raining outside. The hotel's suites are awesome - although we've already put paid to much of the...
Links for 2005-03-19 (March 19, 2005) A really nice and positive response to our ETech paper on Programme Information Pages Yeah, I got quite over-excited by the end of the paper and couldn't stop droning on about it... Robert Kaye on the "Reinventing Radio" talk...
Links for 2005-03-18 (March 18, 2005) The Project for Open Source Media "POSM (The Project for Open Source Media) is an independent research and development entity for the development and deployment of a standardized Open Media Platform." It looks like The West Wing is coming...
Links for 2005-03-17 (March 17, 2005) The future of web development is hereOr is it just a passing fetish?...
Folksonomy vs. Fauxonomy (March 16, 2005) When I first heard the word "Folksonomy" I was sure it was fauxonomy. Everyone was kind of reeling at the neologism but for me it sounded neat. Fauxonomy! Like a fake taxonomy! Or a false one! Nice. I mean it's...
On Reinventing Radio: Enhancing One-to-Many with Many-to-Many... (March 16, 2005) So our first presentation is over - much to my relief. I think it went fairly well - Webb was busy addressing people's questions on IRC, and Biddulph, Hammond and I performed our little hearts out. There were some interesting...
Links for 2005-03-16 (March 16, 2005) Meg mocks me on Flickr Although it's true - I am pretty bloody dreamy... (categories: tomcoates) A java-based visualisation of baby names over time As talked about by Tim and Rael at ETech 2005 (categories: babynames names etech java...
Life from Etech 2005... (March 15, 2005) Before I start, a brief shout-out to everyone coming over here from BBC News. I'm kind of overwhelmed by how many of you there are. I wish I'd had a bit more time to slap up a new lick of...
Links for 2005-03-15 (March 15, 2005) Dan Hill on arrivals, San Diego; and a departure, London... Aw... Old softie... Still you guys have to bloody come... (categories: danhill etech etcon mattwebb)...
My lifetime achievement? You're looking at it, baby... (March 14, 2005) So I'm going to start this post with a comment that someone just posted on my site, because I think it's possibly the funniest thing I've ever read and I'm too sheepish to start the damn thing in any other...
On being in California... (March 13, 2005) I'm on the train between Los Angeles and San Diego listening to Orbital and overwhelmed by how alien and beautiful the industrial landscape outside my window is. I'm travelling backwards all the way which probably means something. There are lots...
Links for 2005-03-12 (March 12, 2005) Microsoft announced early Thursday that it will acquire Groove Networks and integrate Groove's Virtual Office collaboration software into the Office System lineup.Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, will become chief technology officer of Microsoft and report directly to company chairman Bill...
Links for 2005-03-10 (March 10, 2005) Paul Hammond has a new weblog, since the collapse of Paranoid Fish's servers If you can fight your way through the baroque, over-the-top, rich design excess it's worth reading! Arf! (categories: paulhammond)...
Links for 2005-03-09 (March 9, 2005) Downtime on Flickr Cal walks us through a graph and exposition on recent Flickr downtime (categories: flickr graph statistics)...
Links for 2005-03-08 (March 8, 2005) A boy and a girl flirt via the name of their iTunes shared librariesOf course we only have his word for this. She could have thought he was a maniac. Controversy over the Indonesian "hobbit"Some people are claiming that...
Links for 2005-03-07 (March 7, 2005) Delicious Gatherers of the Month The people who have spotted new links first, in order of how many links they've spotted. (categories: delicious) Heroes of atheism merchandising from the Secular Society Not terribly well illustrated, but pretty sweet nonetheless...
Links for 2005-03-06 (March 6, 2005) An interesting overview of some webloggers' responses to an article on the evolution of religious belief I'm quoted, although I'm not sure that it's the bit I'd have used to represent my position. (categories: god weblog) Americans have insincere...
Links for 2005-03-05 (March 5, 2005) Mind Hacks live at Foyles - March 23rd 2005The cult starts here. Mind my words....
Links for 2005-03-04 (March 4, 2005) seti@home style distributed software is being planned to look for extra-solar planets And if you're one of the people whose computer finds one, you get to name the little bugger. Sweet... (categories: seti planetarysystems astronomy exobiology planets software distributedcomputing)...
Links for 2005-03-03 (March 3, 2005) Engadget review of the Siemens SK65 I was interested in this phone because of the intriguing way they've integrated a QWERTY keyboard into it - but it sounds like the rest of the phone is a bit lacking (categories:...
Don't leave me, you infuriating bastard! (March 2, 2005) So my colleague Matt Webb is about to abandon me in the BBC and is now trying to work out what to do next. Maybe you guys can help. This feels like my most significant decision for the past decade,...
Links for 2005-03-02 (March 2, 2005) Terrifying graphs of the decline in life expectancy in some major African countries The article puts this at the door of HIV/AIDS, although I haven't read the supporting material so couldn't state for certain that was the case...
On the potential for browsers to replace all local advertising... (March 1, 2005) I'm a bit confused by all the kerfuffle around the Google toolbar rewriting links on people's sites. I mean, for the most part it looks like it's an opt-in thing and I don't see that this is a particular problem....
Links for 2005-03-01 (March 1, 2005) Banksy, graffiti artist, comes to Brighton with this epic and beautiful image Passionate policement. Stunning. (categories: police gay homosexual art graffiti banksy brighton) Digital radio sales outstrip analogue "Sales of digital radios have outstripped the demand for traditional sets...
