Archives for May 2006
Links for 2006-05-30 (May 30, 2006) Alas, Second Life! Web 2.0 in a virtual world Matt Biddulph dragged me into Second Life this evening while I should have been working to blow my mind with fun Flickr widgets in game. Could revolutionise the poster industry!...
What has been killing my server? (May 23, 2006) Today I was at work when Barbelith went down. MySQL errors everywhere, the community in uproar, IMs and e-mails. And it wasn't like I didn't have enough to do. So I explore in more depth. First step, see what's actually...
Links for 2006-05-18 (May 18, 2006) Eva Longoria has topped the one hundred most beautiful women in the world poll in Maxim again. I love this highly self-aware and self-deprecating comment, "I was like, 'Surely there are more beautiful women in the world.' I can...
How American are Startups? (May 17, 2006) The second day of XTech and the first day of the conference proper (yesterday being tutorials) starts with a keynote from Paul Graham (see his Wikipedia entry) talking about whether or not the success of Silicon Valley might be replicated...
Links for 2006-05-17 (May 17, 2006) The Christian Science Monitor has noise about a study on how e-mails are misinterpreted At first glance this is a pretty mediocre story about the old truim that you can't convey emotion well on e-mail (something we've known since...
Yahoo! launches new beta homepage... (May 16, 2006) One small aside that I should probably bring to people's attention (and get some feedback on) is the new Yahoo! homepage (Yahoo! UK version) which has launched in beta. Richard MacManus of the awesome Read/Write web has a good review...
A quick note on comments... (May 16, 2006) I just thought I should mention that because of the ever-escalating amount of comment spam I'm getting on plasticbag.org nowadays, I've decided to make it the default behaviour to not publish them immediately on the site. If you're a Typekey...
On the perception of the colours of Mars... (May 16, 2006) I was looking at a post about the relative proportions of various planets today and it reminded me of a thought I'd had a couple of years ago and hadn't ever explored in depth. It was based on a stupid...
Links for 2006-05-16 (May 16, 2006) Snap.com is a new, weird and quite interesting search engine One of the weirder interfaces I've seen in a while - large, almost full-size screencaps, heavy on Ajax and interesting interface technologies. Pretty interesting... And the blog has nice...
Heading to Amsterdam for XTech 2006... (May 15, 2006) In about six hours I'll be heading off to XTech 2006 with team-mates and fellow speakers Paul Hammond and Simon Willison. I'll be doing probably my final run at Native to a Web of Data in public before I write...
Cybermen are Human 2.0? (May 13, 2006) According to Doctor Who, the Cybermen are Humans 2.0 (or more specifically, Human Point Two, which... means... very little). But I protest! I'm not sure Human 2.0 means anything at all! It's just a stupid buzzword. Of course it...
Links for 2006-05-13 (May 13, 2006) The new World of Warcraft Alliance race has been announced and they are Draenei Not the most immediately exciting of the new races - nowhere near as cool as the Blood Elves, but then maybe that was the point......
Links for 2006-05-12 (May 12, 2006) The Daily Mail has seven sets of secrets of the new series of Big Brother UK The most notable feature is the 'golden ticket' angle - wherein one of the contestants will be chosen randomly from people who find...
Links for 2006-05-11 (May 11, 2006) Caffeinated and Unstrung in Seattle... "This wiki is intended to be a guide to the best places in the city to huddle over a table with your laptop, a cup of something hot and get online" A new theory...
Self-reflexive rulesets in online communities... (May 9, 2006) It's Tuesday morning and I've been in Seattle since Sunday evening at this year's Microsoft Social Computing Symposium and frankly, I'm completely braindead through jetlag. I'm barely hanging on to intellectual coherence by my fingernails. Sunday evening I got...
Links for 2006-05-09 (May 9, 2006) Why Douglas Rushkoff has had it with religious tolerance I don't really need to keep posting things where smart people talk about their problems with religion. I agree - and have previously stated - with his statements about the...
Links for 2006-05-08 (May 8, 2006) Knickers (a weblog about lingerie) is having a London meet-up on May 17th I was so surprised that the person who is running the event should think I'd know people interested in going that I felt immediately honour-bound to...
Links for 2006-05-07 (May 7, 2006) An awesome OSX widget feeds you new links (with screenshots) posted to Magnolia I spent a fair amount of time on Magnolia, and my conclusion was that it wasn't enormosuly interesting - but this widget is glorious and fascinating......
Links for 2006-05-04 (May 4, 2006) if:book talks about how we will handle and publish literary correspondence in the age of e-mail My favourite part of this article is the conversation about how you'd create an annotatable, taggable and explorable resource around Dave Eggers' Inbox....
On Cyclops and the male gaze... (May 3, 2006) Okay. So here's a quick theory that cropped up in my head a few years ago and I've never really got around to writing it down. It is, frankly, based on some pretty vague memories of some fast-and-loose reading of...
Links for 2006-05-03 (May 3, 2006) "TouchGraph of BBC TV/Radio Collaborators" A nice bit of work that someone's already built on top of the BBC Programme Information dataset showing relatedness based on whether people have been on the same TV or radio show......
On wanting to stop wanting 'World of Warcraft'... (May 2, 2006) There's a command in World of Warcraft that tells you exactly how long you've played with your active character and how long you've been playing at your current level. All you have to do is type /played into your...
Links for 2006-05-02 (May 2, 2006) poissons-cravates - a photoset featuring men and women wearing nothing but fish ties I don't know what to say or think about this, except that it's strange and interesting and entirely unsexual. Also the fish are cool. I wonder...
Links for 2006-05-01 (May 1, 2006) Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner Stephen Colbert is increasingly obviously the most important man in America at the moment. "Colbert urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, 'and...
