Archives for April 2005
Links for 2005-04-30 (April 30, 2005) Simple is the new black - Ben Hammersley redesigns There really does seem to be some stripped-back aesthetic coursing through webloggia at the moment - is it the new 'cred' Homosexuality 101 from threadbared.com Awesome little site that posts...
Links for 2005-04-29 (April 29, 2005) E4 to cash in on the rise of Freeview Tremendously good news this - UK TV Channel E4 which carries a lot of classy US shows comes to Freeview Kerry on bad film scripts: "Three housewives leave their affluent...
The Horseless Carriage... (April 28, 2005) This is a slightly rewritten and polished up version of a talk I gave to a Six Apart event (cf. On being on the panel at Blogs in Action) at London's Polish Club a few weeks ago. It's kind of...
Links for 2005-04-28 (April 28, 2005) The first trailer for Joss Whedon's Serenity movie is out and it looks kinda awesome, but also kinda like the TV show My biggest question is will this look cinematic enough? Will it be enough of a transition from...
Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (April 27, 2005) I think it's time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front - the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms...
Links for 2005-04-27 (April 27, 2005) The BlogHer conference is an overdue gathering on women and weblogging. The UK could do with a weblogging event of some kind, as could the gay community... I'm a little tense that some of the comments are characterising the...
The Age of Point-at-Things... (April 26, 2005) For much of last year I worked on a project in the BBC called Programme Information Pages. Gavin Bell, Matt Biddulph and I recently gave a talk on the subject at ETech. The project was/is about creating coherent data structures...
On link styles and colours... (April 26, 2005) This seems almost totally designed to piss of usability people who I respect enormously, but what the hey - it's my site, right? So a few of you will have noticed that when I relaunced plasticbag.org a few days ago...
Links for 2005-04-26 (April 26, 2005) 'Interesting' / useful looking PHP cheat-sheet I sometimes find it hard to remember whether it's Ruby or PHP that I'm trying to find the time to learn. Ruby's more fashionable... The London Review of Books' Personals column is now...
On iTunes and iPods and the data they don't capture... (April 24, 2005) The more I think about it, the weirder I find it that iTunes doesn't keep track of every time you've ever listened to a track from your library. It would seem like such an obvious thing to do - why...
Links for 2005-04-24 (April 24, 2005) Unborn Baby Ornament"What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?"...
On movement in my view of the "Future of Music"... (April 21, 2005) As ever, I should probably remind people that unless explicitly stated, the views on this weblog are my own and not those of my employer, the glorious and all-powerful British Broadcasting Corporation. I salute thee, Oh Auntie! (Oh, and I'm...
Links for 2005-04-21 (April 21, 2005) eachman.com - Caroline moves to a different domain, we can't call her 'prol' any moreShe also appears to be struggling with Wordpress. I'm really interested in what issues she's having. You don't hear much about people's dissatisfactions with it......
Links for 2005-04-20 (April 20, 2005) Google Maps for the UKThis has to be the most blatantly obvious link of the day really. It's almost ridiculous that I'm referencing it at all......
A few words while I switch the designs around... (April 18, 2005) Wow. Ouch. So there we go. I've redesigned the site and I'm struggling to get it all up and working properly as soon as I possibly can, but there are scratchy bits and clunky bits and I swear to got...
Some resources to help you at election time... (April 17, 2005) An election approaches in the UK and for the first time ever I'm unsure about who I should be voting for. And just for some perspective, to give you some idea of where I'm coming from, I've voted for the...
Links for 2005-04-17 (April 17, 2005) Kevin Marks on the BBC's move towards more podcasts. He also suggests a 'world service hack' plus the creative archive could get around the UK-only restrictions.Unfortunately as I understand it, the World Service isn't paid for with the TV...
Barbelith needs technologists and scientists... (April 15, 2005) I run an online community called Barbelith. Or to put that another way, I maintain the software and the community - for the most part - runs itself. This community doesn't have an over-arching mission or subject that everyone talks...
And a quick apology about my archived posts... (April 14, 2005) Oh and the other, other weird news of the day - as some of you have noticed - is that quite a lot of my archive pages are a bit borked at the moment. Sorry about that, I know it...
Some news on the BBC and podcasting... (April 14, 2005) The other big news today from BBC Radio & Music Interactive (where I work) is that we're about to open up twenty more programmes - mostly from Radio 4 and Five Live as podcast feeds for people to download. As...
My vain search for a simple business card... (April 14, 2005) I have a strange request for help from you guys - the wider weblogging community - and it's not terribly interesting, I'm afraid. I'm really enjoying the process of creating my new stark and simple templates for plasticbag.org and I'm...
Links for 2005-04-14 (April 14, 2005) Creative Archive LicenceI'm really interested in this - I wonder if it only applies to audio and video or whether this is basically a license that describes 'public service' uses of BBC content... British Blog Directory also has charts...
Links for 2005-04-13 (April 13, 2005) Tiger's launch date has been announced - April 29thSo the question now is how best to get hold of it with the least hassle, and who's hosting the install party......
On my favourite books... (April 12, 2005) Okay. I don't normally do these things and please God don't take this as an opportunity to start sending me more of them, but I'm going to respond to Lubin Odana's book-reading memetic challenge. I don't normally do these kinds...
On RSS feeds and upcoming redesigns... (April 12, 2005) This is more of an update than a post and won't be of enormous interest to an awful lot of you, I'm sure. Basically for those of you reading this site via an RSS newsreader, I've decided to remove the...
Links for 2005-04-12 (April 12, 2005) Face transformerI can't believe I didn't bookmark this at the time - upload your photograph, and then you can feminise it, make it look older or younger or of a different race, etc......
Links for 2005-04-11 (April 11, 2005) syncOtunesA nice little thing that synchronises iTunes libraries across multiple computers... accessTunes shares your iTunes library as soon as you turn on your computerYou don't even have to have iTunes open. I think this is interesting mostly because I...
Links for 2005-04-09 (April 9, 2005) Mark Millar on voting for Labour but campaigning against BlairApparently there's the father of an Iraq war vet campaigning against Blair in his constituency. Millar's idea - re-elect the Labour party, but make sure Blair can't lead it. Strange...
Links for 2005-04-07 (April 7, 2005) Amaztype - awesomely beautiful book search engine using the Amazon APIIt creates the search terms out of the books it brings back. You can click on the books too. Sweet. A picture of the Odeo recording studio from Ev's...
Links for 2005-04-05 (April 5, 2005) Conservative MPs last in gay rights survey"The gay and lesbian pressure group is currently trying to pull together a pledge from five major parties at Westminster to conduct non-homophobic campaigns..." TimeTrax - Timeshifting Software for XM Satellite RadioApparently records...
A question on the lifecycle of songs... (April 4, 2005) I've just posted this question to Ask Metafilter, but I thought I'd cross-post it here to see if anyone knows the answer: When I was a kid, I remember hearing on the news about a study that had determined that...
Links for 2005-04-03 (April 3, 2005) TeeVeePad - taking the piss out of celebrities and SixApartHighly entertaining piece of the incredulous 'you spent how much time on this?'-type.......
Links for 2005-04-01 (April 1, 2005) Eccleston quits Doctor Who roleI am surprisingly angry about this. I mean, TV series never get good until the third season anyway. No committment. Slacker. Diesel Sweeties on Radio - with thanks to Matt Jones"I like big butts and...
