Archives for July 2006
Links for 2006-07-31 (July 31, 2006) Mint Digital has published a post detailing some of the things that happened at UGTV '06 The whole 'making a show of a website' idea has been around for a while though - b3ta being the best example of...
Protect your bits with the Open Rights Group... (July 30, 2006) Tell you what - you go on holiday for a couple of weeks and the e-mail that piles up... Sheesh, I'll be ploughing through this lot for weeks. Earlier today I think I managed to get up to a rate...
Links for 2006-07-29 (July 29, 2006) "Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited" (2005) A wonderful fifteen minute bit of video splicing together Back to the Future and Back to the Future II's bits in parallel. Also manages to get much...
Links for 2006-07-28 (July 28, 2006) Atomiq talks about a nomic Digg - basically a version where you could change the ruleset I love that this idea keeps being independently rediscovered and pushed - online communities with self-reflexive rulesets is something I've been harping on...
Links for 2006-07-27 (July 27, 2006) It seems only fair to point to Ben Metcalfe's response to my post about Ashley Highfield even if he sort of misrepresents it Weirdly though he rather seems to confirm my case - he declares backstage underfunded, consisting mostly...
Links for 2006-07-25 (July 25, 2006) Thingtagging: Pictures of objects A project that Mr Biddulph's been working on for fun built off the back of Thinglink.org. I did some of the colouring-in work for him in return for his immortal soul. It's pretty cool....
Links for 2006-07-23 (July 23, 2006) OmniPlan is a new project management tool coming soon from the OmniGroup Any new OmniGroup project is interesting, but this one could be especially so....
How to attract Jeff Bezos' attention... (July 20, 2006) So Jeff Bezos has invested in 37signals, which follows on nicely from his previous investment in 43things.com. Biddulph and I have been thinking about this, and following the pattern we have determined that the next three companies that Bezos is...
Who's afraid of Ashley Highfield? (July 19, 2006) Today it was announced that the BBC's New Media operations are going to be restructured radically. At the moment most of the content creation parts of the organisation are kind of co-owned - for example, Simon Nelson who was the...
Links for 2006-07-18 (July 18, 2006) A quick Daily Show flashback to the beginning of the year Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart talk about a story that somehow completely passed me by. I was probably busy or something. I think Dan Hill has written the...
Plans for this evening... (July 12, 2006) If anyone's interested, then we will indeed be going to the Tonga Room this evening from around eight along with a bunch of nice and interesting nerds from all around the valley. If anyone's interested in joining us, then you...
Links for 2006-07-12 (July 12, 2006) According to Mr Hammersley, the Florence police are now running around on Segways Awesome picture. I love Segways. I know it's not cool to love them, but they're just totally completely awesome. This one is particularly awesome....
Back in the Valley for a few days... (July 9, 2006) I'm back in the Bay Area / Valley for a few days (flying off again on Thursday afternoon), so if anyone's around and wants to do neat things, there is a small possibility that I might be available. I...
Links for 2006-07-09 (July 9, 2006) London's about to host a fairly forward-thinking little summit called 'UGTV '06' focusing on User-Generated television... Interesting meme and nice coinage - the UGTV summit looks relatively interesting. Unfortunately I'm in another country when it's on - hopefully someone...
On playing with my Holux GPS unit... (July 8, 2006) I have a new toy. It wasn't enormously cheap and it basically looks like a little box with three lights on it that pulse in interesting ways, but it is extremely exciting and cool. It is a Holux GPSlém 236...
On EU Hack Day... (July 7, 2006) Yesterday, many of the engineering teams around Yahoo! Europe got together for EU Hack Day, and Simon and I collaborated on a little fun something around Flickr and ritual humiliation which we were quite proud of, and here's the consequence:...
Links for 2006-07-06 (July 6, 2006) Slavoj Zizek's Pervert's Guide to Cinema has been playing on More 4 in the UK And it's bloody good stuff - I read a lot of his work while I was not completing my doctorate, but the TV series...
Links for 2006-07-04 (July 4, 2006) The Transformers Movie website has a trailer up... I'm actually pretty stunningly excited by the idea of a live action Transformers movie. Apparently the full trailer is due for July 4th?...
