Archives for March 2006
What do we do with 'social media'? (March 31, 2006) I'm a nervous public speaker, and so when I was asked to talk at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, I started to scratch out some notes about specifically what I'd say about Social Media. When I'm talking, I never really...
Links for 2006-03-31 (March 31, 2006) Have any television or radio presenters died while they were in the middle of a live broadcast? I don't know the answer to this question, but I want to, so I decided to ask Yahoo Answers. All inspired by...
Back to London and Changing Media... (March 30, 2006) Phew! And I'm back in London and this is basically the first opportunity I've had to put my head above water since. I'm ploughing through a backlog of e-mail from stuff I've not had much of a chance to deal...
I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink... (March 26, 2006) Well that's not strictly true - I got an hour of sleep between coming back from the party and having to leave for the airport. Twenty hours awake and one hour of sleep, and currently in Newark airport an hour...
Links for 2006-03-25 (March 25, 2006) Henry Porter talks in the Guardian about new legislature that would give MPs greater power with less parliamentary oversight "The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary...
The end is in sight... (March 23, 2006) I'm coming to the end of my month in the US and to be honest I'm absolutely bloody exhausted. I only have one major US leg to go and then Dear God I'll be done and I can sleep in...
Links for 2006-03-23 (March 23, 2006) Today's awesome minimalist meditative game of choice is "Don’t Shoot the Puppy" Hint - the way to win is to very very patiently do absolutely nothing at all. It's kind of zen. Roger Ebert publishes a letter from Kerry...
Visualising my del.icio.us tags... (March 22, 2006) I got an e-mail the other day from a guy called Kunal Anand who writes a weblog over at whatspop.com. He'd been doing some nice simple visualisations with Python and (I think) Processing of the connections within his del.icio.us tags....
Paul Hammond has reignited Favcol... (March 22, 2006) So a couple of years ago Matt Webb made a little site called Favcol that you could e-mail pictures to. Once you'd done so, it averaged out the colours, and blended it all together with all the other pictures in...
Another day at Yahoo... (March 22, 2006) Today at work, Terry Semel armwrestled Tom Cruise and we watched on a video link in the cafeteria while eating tacos....
Links for 2006-03-19 (March 19, 2006) An aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego It's difficult to know how to react to this, except that it's pretty beautiful and fascinating. I'm interested to know whether it's based on any specifications or if it's more of an...
Links for 2006-03-18 (March 18, 2006) PXN8 - it's a bit like the pixoh photo editing app I posted about a while back only much much more powerful It's not as superficially elegant as pixoh, but it's pretty stunningly hardcore - there's got to be...
Links for 2006-03-17 (March 17, 2006) Heather Armstrong posts some SXSW photos in which everyone is wasted First time I've got to meet Heather and I had a great time. Lots of good parties and mucking around and eating sea bugs and drinking too much....
Los Angeles is a pretty weird town... (March 16, 2006) I think the most troubling bit is the doors into the abdomen - behind which presumably lurk massive pulsing internal organs. Anyway, just arrived, have got computer access again and am now planning to digest the last couple of...
Why I've been so quiet recently... (March 14, 2006) I've been quiet for the last couple of days, so I thought I should just duck online briefly to explain why. My computer's backlight has failed and as a consequence, I can't actually see anything on the screen, which makes...
Links for 2006-03-13 (March 13, 2006) Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech Seeing it near the end of the week basically freaked me out, but now with a bit of perspective this is one classy little app! Simon Willison versus living shrimp in...
Links for 2006-03-12 (March 12, 2006) Matt Biddulph visualises the Personal Infocloud (from an idea by Dan Catt) I think they're missing the point a little, but it's still enormously entertaining....
Arrival in Austin for SXSW 2006... (March 11, 2006) Right, I'm in Austin now for SXSW and struggling a bit to catch up with all the various things I need to sort out across work and personal projects and life. I've spent most of the afternoon in Halcyon with...
Links for 2006-03-10 (March 10, 2006) FakeGayNews.com, "Because real gay and lesbian news is too damn depressing" Ang Lee's new film to feature ugly gays who get their comeuppance, NBC's new schedule to feature "Christian Assassin", "Devoted Housewives" and a Will & Grace that would...
Links for 2006-03-09 (March 9, 2006) YouTube - The Real World Simpsons I'm pretty certain that most people have seen this already - apparently it's been a Sky TV ad in the UK. Still it pretty much rocks......
About two hours until I talk at ETech 2006... (March 8, 2006) In about two hours, I'll be talking at ETech 2006 - presenting a slightly adapted version of my Native to a Web of Data talk. If any of you are at ETech and have seen the presentation before (or listened...
Links for 2006-03-08 (March 8, 2006) April 11, 2002 - Matt Webb proposes that Google's implementation of a SOAP API represents the first step in a recombinant 'level 2' web... Smug bastard. That's what I'm talking about on Wednesday at ETech. Grrrr. We'll all be...
Links for 2006-03-07 (March 7, 2006) Who's The Dick Writing Comments On My Blog Ladies and Gentlemen, your first ETech related post, and featuring the wit and style (and company)of Mr Dick Hardt!...
Veen & JJG at ETech 2006... (March 6, 2006) I'm in my first session for ETech 2006 - watching Jeff Veen and Jesse James Garrett talking about Designing the next generation of Web Apps: An insight that I've gained from the session so far - that there have been...
Watching the Oscars... (March 6, 2006) Watching the Oscars in the Manchester Grand Hyatt with assorted fun people is a very different experience from trying to stay awake in the UK as it stretches into the wee hours. It's actually fun for a start. And Jon...
Links for 2006-03-06 (March 6, 2006) Whedonesque is mentioned in the press as blog of the week, but Joss disagrees! Not about the quality - but about whether it's a blog. Worth a read this - flashbacks to definitional fun from 2000, with added 'he...
Links for 2006-03-05 (March 5, 2006) Splash Back dumb Flash game By which I mean a dumb Flash game that kept me occupied for an hour or so when I should have been packing for San Diego....
Links for 2006-03-03 (March 3, 2006) HiddenPassageway.com will bring you the technology you need to fill your house with dumb secret passages My parents house has this awesome little cellar under the stairs and I keep thinking I could replace the door with a bookcase...
