Archives for December 2006

Links for 2006-12-30 (December 30, 2006) Joel Veitch's 12 Days Of Christmas for charity Referencing this is a bit late and clumsy, but I've been a bit distracted and I'm only now starting to come out of my hole... According to a campaigning group, staff...

Taking a little time off... (December 19, 2006) It may not surprise many of you to know that the last month or so has not been without its stresses. I've made, unmade and remade a number of significant decisions in a number of weird areas of significant impact...

Links for 2006-12-17 (December 17, 2006) Planting trees in cooler climates may actually speed up climate change The more you hear—if you believe it of course—the more it seems that this really is one of those situations where the world either has to operate together...

Links for 2006-12-16 (December 16, 2006) Are you cleverer when you're hungry? Given that most schools in the UK are currently focusing on making sure children have had a good breakfast in order to improve behaviour and concentration, it's an interesting and impactful argument to...

Links for 2006-12-15 (December 15, 2006) Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist goes to meet business types and weirds them out because he's not interested in profit maximisation I think I love Jim Buckmaster. Craigslist may not represent a replicable model, but it's nice to have a...

Links for 2006-12-14 (December 14, 2006) Sam Sethi reports on being fired my Mike Arrington on Twitter Funny chap, Sam. Not one predisposed towards calming things down (in my highly limited experience of him). Not really got a clue what this whole Le Web debacle...

Links for 2006-12-12 (December 12, 2006) I don't think I've ever been more troubled than by watching the various Philips Bodygroom adverts I suspect the only way I could be more troubled is if I tried to use the appliance in question. Eek....

Links for 2006-12-09 (December 9, 2006) I've been playing a bit with Widsets today. It doesn't work seamlessly, but it's pretty interesting... I really think this is a better model than that of a mobile browser. The browser is useful too, but this dashboard style...

Links for 2006-12-08 (December 8, 2006) Victor Keegan writes quite glowingly about ORG and MySociety He points out that he hasn't seen groups quite like these in any other country of the world. I think, after some initial reserve about their first projects, it would...

My first reactions to the Gowers Review... (December 6, 2006) So the Gower's Review has been released and you can download it as a PDF. I've not read it in detail yet, although I hope to in the next couple of days, but the impression I get is that in...

Links for 2006-12-06 (December 6, 2006) Pixelotto is a well-publicised (in the UK) attempt to replicate the success of the Million Dollar Homepage, but this time with a new gimmick It's actually trying to collect $2 million dollars, and the differentiator is that one person...

On Gower and Release the Music... (December 5, 2006) Tomorrow the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property will report its findings, which should be of interest to everyone in the UK who cares about everything from DRM, the legal situation regarding copying your own music onto your iPod (strictly speaking,...

Links for 2006-12-04 (December 4, 2006) Identify the countries of the world in a big Flash World Map Game! I got 36. I can't tell if that's good or not. I suspect it's not the greatest....

Links for 2006-12-03 (December 3, 2006) Techcrunch reviews mixd - Yahoo's new group texting service I think the group texting facilities—complete with web-based archives for text and photos—will rapidly prove to have more useful possibilities than the initial event-organising premise suggests... GoogleBlog bids Adieu to...

Links for 2006-12-02 (December 2, 2006) Belly's gonna getcha! Classic—and highly disturbing—advert for some running shoes in the UK. Seeing this advert will make several of my posts from the last few years suddenly make sense......

Links for 2006-12-01 (December 1, 2006) Best game ever - an asteroid takes revenge on the tiny vector ships that have been oppressing it I'm a bit of a fan of this. Plucky underdog rises up to fight the oppressor. Very cool....