Archives for March 2007
Links for 2007-03-31 (March 31, 2007) Matt Webb performs his latest opus at ETech 2007... I imagine a form of viral consciousness that finds a sympathic mind on earth, and then seeks to propogate itself through the conference circuit via slides, strategic pauses and enforcing...
On the IA Summit, Vegas and the Leica D-LUX 3... (March 24, 2007) Tomorrow I'm going to be talking at the Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas on a panel about Information Architecture beyond the level of the individual site. Myself, Margaret Hanley, Matt Biddulph and Lisa Chan will bet talking about the...
The Gieves & Hawkes Homoerotic Photo Novella... (March 24, 2007) Wandering through London the other day with an old friend from University, I stumble upon Savill Row and the main London shop for Gieves & Hawkes. After a couple of seconds parsing the adverts I find myself disoriented and confused....
Links for 2007-03-23 (March 23, 2007) Qbesq - sort of like a little Spirograph for your personal computron... Fun little Flash widget with very little else to say for it than the fact that it's highly entertaining and kind of pretty... There's a sort of...
Destroying meaning and undermining language... (March 22, 2007) I have absolutely no idea whether or not Americans actually feel that Hilary Clinton is a Big Brother style control freak with a desire to enforce some kind of conformity or not. And in a way that's not the point...
Links for 2007-03-14 (March 14, 2007) The Efficient Mac User suggests 11 ways to clean up your computer... None of them are as world transforming as the one about Mail from a while back, but they have their uses......
Links for 2007-03-12 (March 12, 2007) Blisterpack packaging allows you to create your own flavours of fizzy drink. And add caffeine if you want... Saw this and thought of Webb immediately. What a lovely / strange / pretty idea. The segway of skateboards? Lovely piece...
Links for 2007-03-09 (March 9, 2007) Biggest thing in 3D social spaces? The new Playstation 3 will come preinstalled with 'Home' for game matchmaking and socialising... Looks like it's a hybrid of Second Life, Looking for Group functionality on World of Warcraft, Habbo Hotel and...
Links for 2007-03-08 (March 8, 2007) Now you can use your Wordpress ID as an OpenID. This is a cool thing. Bloody typical of that Willison chap to be behind it as well. Come back to work, Simon. I'm really bored and I miss you....
Links for 2007-03-07 (March 7, 2007) Matt Webb in early 2005 was trying to work out what to do next with his life, and I'm guessing in retrospect feels good about his decision... I wonder whether I'll be the same. Stop bitching. Make it better......
A quick apology to long-term readers... (March 6, 2007) Having to explore my weblog to try and scrabble together evidence of visits to the US over the last six years has really brought home to me exactly how quiet this site has been over the last six months to...
Links for 2007-03-06 (March 6, 2007) Chris Lightfoot 1978-2007 Chris worked on a number of MySociety projects that have had a significant and positive impact on the UK...
Links for 2007-03-05 (March 5, 2007) I'm thinking about getting myself one of the new Aiport Extremes and hiding it in a cupboard somewhere attached to a bunch of hard disks Does anyone have any sense about whether this is a good idea or not?...
Links for 2007-03-04 (March 4, 2007) Last.fm has a page listing their top downloads of free MP3s. There's a lot of crap, and a bunch of non-crap too... Surprised to see that you can download The Carpenters for free. Very weird / interesting selection. I...
Links for 2007-03-03 (March 3, 2007) I'm playing a bit with widgets for getting access to Basecamp on Dashboard... Obvious really - store data in the cloud and access is locally with one keystroke. Very interested in dashboard widgets as lightweight interfaces to online storage...
Links for 2007-03-02 (March 2, 2007) There's an article on the BBC about Al Gore post-Oscar and whether the US is ready to warm to him... Interesting question. From a geek perspective, most of the Gore coverage has been pretty glowing since the Wired article...
Links for 2007-03-01 (March 1, 2007) Birth rates around the world - how far down the list is your first world country? Germany has an almost terrifyingly low birth-rate. I wonder why. I remain totally weirded out by Ning, even after their relaunch as a...
