Archives for April 2006
Links for 2006-04-30 (April 30, 2006) I'm particularly loving this particular World of Warcraft simulator right about now You'll need sound, and don't expect too much, it's really a one-note joke, although pretty funny if you're on a popular server......
I'm having bit of a post Doctor Who comedown... (April 29, 2006) I'm in a filthy mood because Doctor Who sucked the big one, I missed the last two minutes of the episode (and hence the revision of a major classic character) and subsequently my laptop ran out of batteries and I...
It's all about K9 on Doctor Who... (April 29, 2006) It's really difficult to pretend that today is really about anything else than K9's reappearance on Doctor Who this evening. I'm a bit nervous about leaving the house at all, just in case the tube goes down or something and...
Links for 2006-04-29 (April 29, 2006) Battlestar Galactica is to have a spin-off series named 'Caprica' set fifty years earlier and delving into the creation of the Cylons Frankly any new BSG is good BSG as far as I'm concerned, and I'll be watching the...
Links for 2006-04-27 (April 27, 2006) "Broadband is Killing TV" sign at BBC Television Centre I'm assuming it's for some internal point-making exercise, unless the sign-makers guild has finally decided to take up the power that is it's natural birth-right and start making dumb comments...
Is the pace of change really such a shock? (April 26, 2006) I've got Matt Biddulph staying with me and been hanging out with Paul Hammond a lot recently again and since they're both ex-BBC colleagues, we've inevitably found ourselves talking a bit about what's going on at the organisation at the...
The BBC's open programme information project... (April 26, 2006) Here's an interesting development from my old employers - the project that Biddulph, Loosemore and Hammersley (and others) have been working on at the BBC is now live and playable with. It's the full Infax archive of programme information...
More del.icio.us visualisations... (April 25, 2006) A while back I received an e-mail by a guy called Kunal Anand asking about whether he could get his mitts on the raw dump of my del.icio.us data to work some visualisatory / processing magic upon. I sent him...
Links for 2006-04-25 (April 25, 2006) SteamPunk Transformers are rocking my world right about now I'm a trivial man, but still the image of Megatron built out of a huge cannon is pretty damn cool and makes way more sense than that stupid miniature gun...
On Pokemonetisation... (April 24, 2006) Only colleague (but not for long) Simon Willison and I have been spending a hell of a lot of time over the last three weeks sitting in a tiny room with lots of whiteboards puzzling over motives for collecting and...
Links for 2006-04-24 (April 24, 2006) Welcome to Torchwood House... Omigod, after the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who completely and epically sucked the big one, the new one rocked like a motherfucker. Woot!...
Links for 2006-04-20 (April 20, 2006) Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have given birth to a beautiful baby Scientologist How come it's taken me this long to find out that the press have christened them TomKat, and the child the TomKitten? This seems like the...
Links for 2006-04-19 (April 19, 2006) "Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers" There's a story in The Guardian today about the disproportionate influence held by webloggers in which I'm quoted. This may be of interest to some of you. Mum, are you out there?...
Nngh. Stuff. Crap. Time. (April 19, 2006) I have an uncharitable theory this evening as I plough through several hundred backlogged e-mails and links and conversations and the theory is this - people who do a lot of punditry on their sites cannot possibly be actually getting...
Links for 2006-04-18 (April 18, 2006) Stowe Boyd is auctioning off his chest for the rest of the year to Web 2.0 start-ups You see at some level this is fun, but at another level it really creeps me out. It's the same reason I...
On maps of religious adherents in America... (April 18, 2006) I was talking to Kerry Bailey the other day and - on the pretty feeble pretext that "you like maps, right" - he directed me to a fascinating post about Religion in America in which county-by-county maps of the US...
On Paul A Young's very fine chocolate shop... (April 17, 2006) It's a little late for Easter, but I thought I should briefly mention a shop that a couple of friends of mine have set up in Islington. It sells the most glorious and award-winning chocolate that I've ever had the...
Links for 2006-04-13 (April 13, 2006) "Police are trying to locate the owner of a 300-year-old ledger, bound in human skin, found in a Leeds road." In the 18th & 19th Century, apparently accounts of some murder trials were bound in the skin of the...
Links for 2006-04-12 (April 12, 2006) Westmin.co.uk is a little forum for people who live in and around Westminster in London It's not a glimpse of the future of technology, but if a few more people were using it, it could become quite a useful...
Did I dream this photo scanner? (April 9, 2006) Like many of you out there, no doubt, I have a pretty substantial box of paper-based photos that I really never get to see for a range of reasons, but mainly because they're made of paper and paper's not enormously...
A brief follow-up on TV distribution... (April 8, 2006) I wrote a post a few days ago called Quick observations on TV distribution in which I made a number of outrageous claims that I pretty much stand by. It was a bit of an off-the-cuff and not entirely digested...
On tiny, beautiful, little business cards... (April 7, 2006) I've always wanted to get some sexy plasticbag.org schwag made and now I have some! And even better than that, soon it won't just be people like me (the successful, the sexy, the preternaturally flexible) who can get their hands...
Why do people use Spurl? (April 7, 2006) I have a serious question for you social bookmarking types out there. I've been playing with spurl.net for the last hour or so and I'm really puzzled. It's not a terrible site by any means, but I'm having real trouble...
Links for 2006-04-07 (April 7, 2006) Jumpcut allows you to explore, create and remix videos You have to try the remix feature. Absolutely fascinating. Go find a clip, click on remix to be able to edit each piece of video, reorder them, change soundtracks. It's...
Quick observations on TV distribution... (April 7, 2006) I observed today that it's now possible in the US to not only buy individual episodes of Lost via iTunes but that the Season Pass functionality now includes automatic delivery of all future episodes of the show for a massively...
The tiniest Flickr cheese story... (April 6, 2006) Core objects on the internet, individually addressable, that are a platform that can be annotated, described and connected, making a web much more exciting and navigable and powerful than it could possibly be otherwise - all illustrated through a wonderful...
In which my body revolts... (April 5, 2006) Eurgh. I don't know what the hell happened, but I'm all over the place biologically today. Hideous gut pains and regularly visits to the unusables aren't the half of it. I have this horrible feeling it's one of those not...
Links for 2006-04-05 (April 5, 2006) Firefly So this guy wants to prepare his friend to watch Serenity, and so makes him a thirty minute introduction to Firefly which he's now circulating for free on the internet, even though he's going to get crushed by...
Talking at the Apple Store about weblogs... (April 4, 2006) I have a kind of superstition when it comes to public speaking, and the superstition is that I don't write about the fact that I'm going to be doing the speaking on my site until I'm pretty sure I know...
Links for 2006-04-04 (April 4, 2006) Atom vs. RSS - Atom wins! It seems to me that as far as the world is concerned Atom is RSS anyway. You Tube has the footage of Danah Boyd on The O'Reilly Factor Weird piece of video -...
How I'm formatting my del.icio.us links... (April 3, 2006) I've been using it for bloody ages now - probably a year or something - and I've been asked about it a few times and always meant to write it up. So here goes. If you want to post your...
Links for 2006-04-03 (April 3, 2006) Richard Bartles' article, "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs" An old classic of an article. I'm not sure I buy the divisions but there's a good articulation of the space. What I want to know is how...
If you could ask me one question... (April 2, 2006) Okay - given my post earlier in the day about some of the abusive comments I've been getting recently, this couldn't really be a more obviously bad idea, but hey - I'm refusing to get beaten down by it all....
Is it a good time to start a business? (April 2, 2006) There have been a few pretty fascinating posts roaming around the blogosphere recently, and I thought I'd reference them a little more fully than normal not only because they're particularly interesting but also because they illustrate the possibilities of conversation...
Links for 2006-04-02 (April 2, 2006) OK/Cancel comments on the new argument that ugly design is attractive to users Reminds me of a talk at SXSW about humans poorly evaluating odds/stats. Don't forget the ugly sites that don't succeed! You'd need to compare the proportion...
A brief note about deleting comments... (April 1, 2006) I try to be pretty reasonable with the comments on my site - other than spam it's a rare day when I delete a comment that someone has posted. But recently, I've been getting some stuff posted anonymously that want...
