Archives for November 2005
A quick thought about collections in Flickr... (November 28, 2005) Frivolous post, this. A desired feature for Flickr would be to be able to add public photos to groups and pools without the user having to join the group in question. That would make it like Amazon listmania stuff, which...
Links for 2005-11-26 (November 26, 2005) Channel 4 rapped over 'Lost' ad breaks Sixty-four minutes of apparent programming contained only thirty-six minutes of new editorial content. I buy Channel 4's excuse a bit, but it's still a shame - bad advertising spaces and overlong breaks...
On getting a replacement passport... (November 25, 2005) There is a trivial flaw with my passport that was queried when I last landed in the UK. The damage has got fractionally worse since then. I'm supposed to go on a business trip to the US a week today...
Links for 2005-11-24 (November 24, 2005) Jessica's Trans-Traffic Interesting little thing this - it's a bit of javascript you add to your weblog which tells you which other weblogs your visitors are reading. I quite like the idea of it helping people find unexpected peers....
Links for 2005-11-23 (November 23, 2005) Penn Jillette says, "There is No God" I'm an atheist, and I have been since I seriously thought about it. My mother has 'converted' too. I agree with everything Mr Jillette says. I'm still stunned people have to actually...
Links for 2005-11-19 (November 19, 2005) A BBC analysis column explores the politics and positioning behind the Internet governance discussions "Internet professor Michael Geist explains why the arguments over who runs the internet are far from over" An astonishing set of images of scenes and...
On 'The State of the Weblog Nation (2002)'... (November 18, 2005) The early UK weblogging community was really focused around a couple of core mailing lists (UKBloggers Social and UK Bloggers Discuss) which subsequently fell apart, probably as a result of meddling in the structure by myself and Mr Morgan. The...
Who knows where the time goes? (November 18, 2005) Another quick song recommendation before I'm pulled off to bed. There's this song by Nina Simone that I've been listening to a lot lately which you can get on the Anthology album. It's called Who Knows Where The Time Goes,...
Links for 2005-11-18 (November 18, 2005) Riya - photo search by face recognition This looks totally fascinating, although unfortunately since it only works on IE6 for Windows I can't look to see how well it works. 'Tom! The token gay friend!' is best thing I've...
On Space Cadets... (November 17, 2005) There's an article in the Independent newspaper today that I'm trying really hard to convince myself isn't true. If it is true, it sounds like one of the cruelest things I've ever heard of. A group of people chosen for...
BP adverts look just like my site! (November 17, 2005) About a month ago I was watching television and an advert for BP appeared and goddam did their new advertising aesthetic look like my site. Now I'm not seriously suggesting that they ripped off the design of my site, but...
Links for 2005-11-17 (November 17, 2005) Wikipedia has an article on the "Two-Spirit" identity that Native Americans with unconventional sexual or gender identities have claimed for their own... "Two-Spirit is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not...
In which Google Base launches... (November 16, 2005) Right. Now. This is interesting. Google Base has launched and is both pretty weird and pretty interesting. The concept is fundamentally pretty simple - it's almost like a completely open content management tool where you can post a recipe or...
Links for 2005-11-16 (November 16, 2005) The history of Power Girl is a history of enormous comic book breasts. There's a lot of insight into the minds of teenage male comic book readers in this piece... "Seriously, she has got to be the most sexualized...
Will subscription media kill broadcast? (November 15, 2005) I just got chucked a link to some video by Kevin Marks - an early pioneer of the technology that would eventually become podcasting - in which he talks about his time in broadcast as a cameraman, working at Apple...
Amazon, excess and the future of navigation... (November 15, 2005) Following a post from Anil (brought to my attention by new co-worker Simon Willison), I've been wandering around Amazon's new tag implementation and my initial impressions are mixed. But I'm going to leave talking about that for another post. Instead...
Links for 2005-11-15 (November 15, 2005) Google Analytics has a really nicely implemented site overlay feature The analytics service basically looks like a good web stats product with extra features to help people optimise advertising and keywords. The overlay feature is particularly interesting. The Flickrization...
Links for 2005-11-11 (November 11, 2005) FUCK this website Using stickers with rude words on them to deface and detourn official signs and warnings is big and clever and kind of designy... An old "We Make Money Not Art" post details the French Yellow Pages...
Links for 2005-11-10 (November 10, 2005) An implementation of the Yahoo maps API turns the whole thing into a pirate map. S'pretty. There's also a radar screen. It's pretty cool, all things considered. Shiny. Blast from the past: In 2001 Macrumors users were not impressed...
Links for 2005-11-09 (November 9, 2005) Public could help BBC to index archive "Inspired by Flickr and Wikipedia, the project is a private, early-stage pilot of social software produced at BBC Radio and Music Interactive that lets listeners slice programmes into chunks that can be...
My song of the month... (November 7, 2005) You take one week not paying attention to the web and all kinds of weird things happen. Damn you World of Warcraft. Damn you to hell! The consequence of this is that I'm going to post a huge linklog thing...
In which I catch people up and sound rushed... (November 7, 2005) Right. What's going on here. No posts for a week and a bit - my site's decided that I no longer exist. No posts for people to read! Very confusing! I must act immediately. Right. So I left the BBC...
