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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...
Visualising my del.icio.us tags... (March 22, 2006) I got an e-mail the other day from a guy called Kunal Anand who writes a weblog over at whatspop.com. He'd been doing some nice simple visualisations with Python and (I think) Processing of the connections within his del.icio.us tags....
My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (February 13, 2006) Right then. My slides. I've been trying to work out the best way to put these up in public and it's been more confusing than I thought it would be. Basically, the slides are so Keynote-dependent and full of transitions...
On Metafilter's folksonomic subdomains... (January 14, 2006) I'm going to move on quite quickly back onto something way way less embarrassing and mainstream back into the boring semi-beating heart of one of my pet work-related fetishes, the folksonomy. In particular I thought I'd talk about a new...
In which Google Base launches... (November 16, 2005) Right. Now. This is interesting. Google Base has launched and is both pretty weird and pretty interesting. The concept is fundamentally pretty simple - it's almost like a completely open content management tool where you can post a recipe or...
Will subscription media kill broadcast? (November 15, 2005) I just got chucked a link to some video by Kevin Marks - an early pioneer of the technology that would eventually become podcasting - in which he talks about his time in broadcast as a cameraman, working at Apple...
Amazon, excess and the future of navigation... (November 15, 2005) Following a post from Anil (brought to my attention by new co-worker Simon Willison), I've been wandering around Amazon's new tag implementation and my initial impressions are mixed. But I'm going to leave talking about that for another post. Instead...
A quick review of Yahoo! Podcasts... (October 10, 2005) Double disclaimer time here - firstly I'm knackered and what follows is badly written and I will edit it later for clarity, punch and drama. The other thing is that - of course - the viewpoints represented here do not...
In which Google launches blog search... (September 14, 2005) Okay, so the big weblog news of the day is that Google have launched their Blog Search. First impressions are that it doesn't feel right, that quite a lot of the spririt of the weblogs and the faces of the...
How to build on bubble-up folksonomies... (September 2, 2005) [This post takes up some of the themes that Matt Webb, Paul Hammond, Matt Biddulph and I talked about in our paper at ETech 2005 on Reinventing Radio: Enhancing One-to-Many with Many-to-Many. A podcast of that talk is available.] A...
Reinventing Radio: On Phonetags... (August 29, 2005) This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to bookmark, tag and rate songs they hear on the radio using their mobile phone. It was developed by Matt Webb and myself (with Gavin Bell, Graham Beale...
On Live Journal mood tracking and zeitgeists... (July 8, 2005) There are two or three major things I'm thinking about at the moment - and one of them is zeitgeists. Which brings me rapidly to The World according to LiveJournal which is an awesome tracking system of LiveJournal moods over...
On the 'one big site'-ness of weblogs... (August 28, 2003) Here's a weird quote about weblogging: "I believe in my heart that people should come up with their own publishing methods. Frankly, it's boring to surf the blogosphere and see so many sites using the same, tired weblogging tools. The...
Against Search Engine Optimisers... (June 26, 2003) In the middle of the comments for a fairly interesting article about the Googledance that never ends there's a post from a professional search engine optimiser. He says: My consulting business website ranks highly in google for a number of...
