Archives for October 2005

links for 2005-10-30 (October 30, 2005) "In growing my company from a research question to a launched internet service, I've learned an important lesson: Stealth mode is overrated." My personal opinion is that you need to get your product up to a point where its...

Links for 2005-10-29 (October 29, 2005) Typeradio.org - a podcast and internet radio station about typography and design The site is beautiful if you're into Flash and contains some nice interface and audio preview widgets. And it's about typography which never sucks... Hypergene on "Amazoning...

On the BBC Annotatable Audio project... (October 28, 2005) This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team - for this project consisting...

Links for 2005-10-26 (October 26, 2005) 'Mr. England' bemuses Alabama locals "British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw joined Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a weekend tour of her home state to promote understanding of the Anglo-American alliance, but Alabamans struggled to name him." Google's stock...

By way of a holding post... (October 23, 2005) Yesterday I was awake for about nine hours of the twenty-four normally available to mortal men. Clearly I was catching up from something - I just wish I knew what it was. And today I've been cleaning and fiddling and...

Links for 2005-10-22 (October 22, 2005) "Yet more 'fashion inspired' phones for people who live in London and work for the BBC and are gay and have blogs." So I live in London, work for the BBC, am gay and have a blog and I...

Links for 2005-10-20 (October 20, 2005) They've discovered a zombie worm or some crap in the ocean or something. Could you care less? How about if I tell you that BBC News translates the name of said worm as "bone-eating snot-flower"!? BONE-EATING SNOT-FLOWER!? That's so...

Links for 2005-10-19 (October 19, 2005) Kerry Bailey talks about God, atheism and being a "Lincolnist" So basically, the stuff I've done that I'm ashamed of just stays with me and continually torments me when I least expect it. I really identify with his description...

America vs. the Congestion Charge... (October 18, 2005) There's a highly entertaining little story that's getting everyone's backs up in London at the moment that I suspect hasn't really crossed the Atlantic yet, and might amuse a few people. But before I can tell you about it,...

More 4 "Daily Show" confusion... (October 17, 2005) So changing the subject away from how great I am for just one minute because frankly it's all a bit embarrassing, I'm watching the Daily Show on More 4 and suddenly - after a week - it's gone all Global...

Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! (October 16, 2005) Right then! It's time to get everything out in the open and talk about some of the stuff that's been going on behind the scenes over the last few months. First things first - and this will probably come as...

Links for 2005-10-13 (October 13, 2005) "Sci-fi film Serenity has ended Pride and Prejudice's four-week reign at the top of the UK film chart." "Serenity, created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind Joss Whedon, took almost £960,000 in its first weekend."...

Links for 2005-10-12 (October 12, 2005) "British blogs have recently found themselves getting comments from a fictional character who promotes a household cleaner. Weblog Watch looks at a new, personalised form of advertising..." Interesting BBC News story that references the Cillit Bang fiasco from around...

Links for 2005-10-11 (October 11, 2005) Jet lag update: Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body "With a good night's rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence...

The Daily Show hits More 4... (October 10, 2005) And I can't tell you how happy I am. Jon Stewart and the Daily Show every night on British terrestrial television. It's almost more than I can bear. I've been waiting for this for ages. Although tonight's episode kind of...

A quick review of Yahoo! Podcasts... (October 10, 2005) Double disclaimer time here - firstly I'm knackered and what follows is badly written and I will edit it later for clarity, punch and drama. The other thing is that - of course - the viewpoints represented here do not...

Links for 2005-10-09 (October 9, 2005) JotSpot Live - basically SubEthaEdit on the web - feels quite good and appears to mostly work The most interesting aspect of this for me is that it assumes that in the office you're online all the time. The...

Links for 2005-10-08 (October 8, 2005) We Make Money Not Art reports on the height of Dutch design - Amphibious houses "The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses rise upwards as well" Malcolm...

Links for 2005-10-07 (October 7, 2005) Tim Worstall's got a book coming out: "2005: Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere" "Featuring writing from the rising stars of online journalism, this is an entertaining guide to the year 2005. From dedicated bloggers to total Internet virgins, this...

Start spreading the news... (October 6, 2005) I'm on my way to New York for State of Play. Arriving around midday New York time, leaving again on Sunday evening. Running enormously behind though. Barely got to check-in in time, they were calling out last something-or-other. Very alarming....

Links for 2005-10-06 (October 6, 2005) Yahoo! have only gone and bought upcoming.org Now that's pretty interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. Seems like everyone's going to work with Yahoo! nowadays. Joss Whedon's Serenity hits #118 on the IMDB all time best movies...

Links for 2005-10-05 (October 5, 2005) I'm famous! Check out the front of the DVD kiosk at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco! It's a review I wrote for the BBC's film website several years ago. Not my finest piece of work, although it looks...

A few odd bits of detective work... (October 4, 2005) So after accepting their apology late last night I should probably really let this one lie, but I just thought people might be interested in a couple of updates. I'm going to have a phone conversation with the people from...

An apology from the Cillit Bang team... (October 4, 2005) So this afternoon, I got an e-mail which I'm pretty sure is from the team who handle Cillit Bang. I can't tell for certain because I it's from someone at cohnwolfe.com, and I don't know enough about the relationships between...

Links for 2005-10-03 (October 3, 2005) Google offers San Francisco free Wifi... "Google Inc. has offered to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet access at no cost to the city, placing a marquee name behind Mayor Gavin Newsom's effort to get all residents online...

Any consensus on 'responsible' linklogging? (October 2, 2005) This is more of a query than a post, and it's about those most glamourous of things - linklogs on weblogs. I'm really interested in how people treat them. Linklogs as a semi-automated component of weblog systems 'distinct' from the...

Links for 2005-10-02 (October 2, 2005) Web 2.0 is next week in the States, and I'm not going to be there, even though I'm completely thinking about this a lot at the moment... I really need to get the stuff I'm thinking about around this...

A reminder: Go and see Serenity... (October 1, 2005) Since it's out in the States now, can I just remind all my American friends to go and see Serenity as soon as possible, and can I just add that if you don't enjoy it, it's your own fault for...

Links for 2005-10-01 (October 1, 2005) Stupidity, nice people and religion: a Good Thing or not? "There's a cause/correlation problem here - isn't it just as possible that people turn to religion because there are these problems in a country." ROLLYO - roll your own...