Links for 2006-04-29

Posted April 29, 2006 1:17 AM.

• 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 series eagerly should it turn up anywhere British television...
• Why Content Publishers shouldn't host weblogs... In light of some of the media organisation fuss about the possibility of giving users a self-expression space on their websites, I thought maybe it would be worth pointing people towards this thing I wrote in February 2003, which I still agree with...
• Last.fm isn't just for humans Mr Biddulph talks about work he did when we were at the BBC, piping now-playing lists from 6music into last.fm to make a profile of their music listening preferences. Pretty cool, really. Very interesting.
• It's nice to see plasticbag.org up in the top fifty of people's 'favourited' weblogs on Technorati... The favourites feature is actually a surprisingly nice and clean little service that gets out of your way and just sort of works. Being able to filter posts by weblogs tagged with a word is a particularly nice way to attenuate your inbox...
• Wikipedia's article on the Pirahã people has the most references to back it up, so I'm linking to it instead of all the other sites The Pirahã apparently have almost no way of counting whatsoever and appear to be unteachable in that regard. They also have incredibly limited kinship concerns, limited sense of colour, ridiculously simple pronouns and whistle their language
• Jon Rowett has a comprehensive write-up of last night's "Beers and innovation" event I thought my colleague Mr Willison did pretty well in explaining the web. It was lovely to see Mr Loosemore, although I thought he struggled a bit in context. God knows what the chair was on... I think I misbehaved a fair amount...
• A powerpoint presentation I gave to the BBC in 2002 before I worked for them explaining why they shouldn't host weblogs and how they could operate better with the ecosystem Best thing about these debates is that they're so circular, you don't even need to write anything new. I could give up thinking completely and still have a position I mostly believed in on most large organisational interactions with social media.