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Archives for July 2007

Quick apologies... (July 16, 2007) I'm running towards a deadline at the moment and everything's got a bit frantic. In the middle of this whole enterprise I decided to do a completely fresh installation of Movable Type (using the new beta version) and to import...

Links for 2007-07-12 (July 12, 2007) Poor old Mr Vander Wal, a YouGov survey of the hated technology terms puts folksonomy out in front... It seems a bit unfair since it's such a specific piece of terminology, but hey. I still prefer fauxonomy. It's funnier....

The Veidt Method... (July 10, 2007) I appear to have just been spammed by a fictional character. I didn't notice immediately. It took me a couple of seconds to twig what I was just about to junk. The text of the e-mail seemed a little too...

Links for 2007-07-05 (July 5, 2007) The Open Rights Group (of which I'm an advisory board member) released its report on e-voting a couple of weeks ago which is well worth a read... The conclusion is not positive, suggesting that while there are many flaws...

When Hack Day got struck by lightning... (July 4, 2007) A couple of weeks after the fact, and I'm only now beginning to get my head around what actually happened at Hack Day and I'm starting to look around the web to see what kind of time everyone else had....

Links for 2007-07-04 (July 4, 2007) Really enjoying having a play with Pownce. It is to Twitter as Typepad was to Blogger. Don't know whether that's a good thing or not. Really classy experience though. Very shiny, well-implemented, friendly and fun. No idea if it...

Links for 2007-07-03 (July 3, 2007) Possibly the best Inigo Montoya t-shirt ever? Back in London. Trying to deal with e-mail backlog from hell. Keep getting pleasantly distracted by the internets....

Links for 2007-07-02 (July 2, 2007) Light-effect photos of the FOOCamp 2007 attendees... Alex Russell is my favourite. He looks like a freaky digital shaman or like he's tuning in his mandalavision on us all. Very cool....

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