Archives for May 2007
Who is speaking at Hack Day? (May 31, 2007) I've just posted a really long piece over on the Hack Day blog about the various people from Yahoo and the BBC who are going to be coming to Alexandra Palace in a little over two weeks. Sorting out the...
Links for 2007-05-31 (May 31, 2007) The rumour is that last.fm has been bought by CBS for $280 Million I find myself surprisingly depressed by this revelation, although it does sort of rather explain some of the conversations I had with them a while back...
Links for 2007-05-30 (May 30, 2007) Weird idea of the moment: Sell the movie rights to The Sims... I suppose when you think about it, there's a bunch you could do with this if you treat it as a sort of meta-fiction about the world...
Links for 2007-05-29 (May 29, 2007) A gay pub in Australia has won a court-case that would allow it to ban heterosexuals "The tribunal's president said groups of straight women found homosexual men entertaining but that such attention was dehumanising." I have much experience of...
Links for 2007-05-28 (May 28, 2007) John Battelle has posted his "Data Bill of Rights" and I'm finding it pretty fascinating... I'm not totally sure it's all workable, but there's a lot here of significant value. I'm spending a bunch of time trying to work...
On Alexandra Palace and Hack Day... (May 27, 2007) The first time I went inside Alexandra Palace was a couple of months ago, while we were still trying to work out if we were going to be able to carry off this whole Hack Day concept in the UK....
Links for 2007-05-26 (May 26, 2007) The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards is about celebrating the best in European weblogs... It's a pretty good way to see what people are writing about and to discover some new sites, and if you want to vote for...
Links for 2007-05-25 (May 25, 2007) Meg Pickard has spotted a rather aggravating security hole in Twitter's service... Messages that are supposed to be private are being exposed through the API Various people are irritated by this, particularly as apparently some of the messages are...
Links for 2007-05-23 (May 23, 2007) "Scientists reject Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks" from the Guardian is a pretty interesting read... Also good are statements from scientists indicating that it was "grossly unscientific" and "a scare story". I complained to Panorama via the BBC...
Links for 2007-05-22 (May 22, 2007) Can I just say that this story on 'Yahoo censoring a Flickr user and then redressing its mistake' is absolutely ludicrously over the top... I mean, genuinely, the managers of any and all online communities delete stuff all the...
Links for 2007-05-21 (May 21, 2007) I'm very excited about the Moleskine San Francisco guide/notebook that I picked up in Foyles the other day... And I'm looking forward to my next chance to use it, which will probably be around FOO Camp in about a...
Links for 2007-05-19 (May 19, 2007) Looks like I'm not the only one having a tricky time with Jessops for scanning negatives... I'm really quite angry about this now. The symptoms these people are describing—massively over-sharpened, insane amounts of artefacting and pixellation—are exactly what I've...
Quick Hack Day update... (May 18, 2007) I've been a bit quiet on the Hack Day front for a while now. But all that's changing. I can now let you guys know that we've sent out the first few hundred invitations to the event proper. If you've...
Links for 2007-05-18 (May 18, 2007) Coming to the Hack Day? Let people know with these fashionable badges! Lots of interesting patterns here, including many that wouldn't look out of place in 80s fashion magazines. Loopt's a pretty fun looking geo service for keeping track...
I need some advice on scanning negatives... (May 18, 2007) In the background of my overly hectic life at the moment, I decided that it would be a good idea to get some old photos scanned. I'd scanned them myself a while back, but only from the prints. They looked...
Links for 2007-05-17 (May 17, 2007) Ashley Highfield has defended the idea that the BBC is Britains R&D lab for the internet... I'm afraid I have no comment on this one....
Links for 2007-05-16 (May 16, 2007) Get Stephen Fry's obsequious tones to wake you up every morning... It's almost like he was in bed with you, gently kneading your lower back to bring you gradually to a consciousness. Yes, it's that creepy!...
Links for 2007-05-15 (May 15, 2007) 'Bobbie Johnson on where the BBC's attempt to lead the new media revolution went wrong' Fascinating piece of commentary and investigation by the Guardian....
Links for 2007-05-14 (May 14, 2007) A lovely chap has just gone and made a t-shirt from the sticker I pointed to yesterday! Hopefully I'll get my hands on one of them. Pitchfork Media's review of The Field's new album has intrigued me... I'm normally...
Links for 2007-05-13 (May 13, 2007) Only a couple more weeks for Apple to start selling music DRM-free... I'm really looking forward to this. I know people think that the price is too high, but for the convenience, I'm totally there... Could someone please turn...
Links for 2007-05-11 (May 11, 2007) I'd really love to live in one of the tiny microhomes that Wired covered in its last issue... They're super tiny, belonging-free residences that you could put easily in the middle of a quiet outdoors environment for a great...
Links for 2007-05-09 (May 9, 2007) Lost is to continue until 2010... God I don't think I can sit through that. At least the seasons will be shorter. I suppose that's something......
Links for 2007-05-05 (May 5, 2007) Pandora is to be blocked to users outside the US... Which is a tremendous shame and almost certainly a significant long-term damage to their business......
Links for 2007-05-04 (May 4, 2007) OmniGroup have put up a screencast of how they're expecting OmniFocus to work... I have to be honest, I think I need this application right now. I'm rather overwhelmed with little jobs to do and am desperate for a...
Links for 2007-05-03 (May 3, 2007) Fascinating Newsweek story about treating people whose hearts have stopped... Apparently if a patient's heart has stopped beating for five minutes or more, it's not that the brain starts degrading but that it will degrade catastrophically if oxygen is...
Links for 2007-05-01 (May 1, 2007) Incredible imagery of a graffiti covered building in New York City... Sort of glorious. I need go exploring more with my camera. Interesting photos are based on interesting subjects. Too many pictures in my Flickr stream of chocolate eggs...
