A few weeks ago, Sam, a Chinese Crested dog, won a competition to find the world’s ugliest dog for the third time (does he get to keep the trophy in perpetuity). In line with today’s online meida world, the dog has a blog. And in an experiment (for meme epidemiology I guess) Doc Searls is […]
OpenTech 2005
Spent yesterday at OpenTech 2005. A mixed day, some pretty good stuff, other stuff that was not so much fun. Things I found interesting: OpenStreetMap. Mapping the UK using Satellite photos and GPS points. To provide an open source map in a country where most of the maps are Crown Copyright Ewan Spence‘s Media Hacking […]
MSN Virtual Earth
Microsoft appear to be launching their new mapping application on Monday, but it looks like Virtual Earth is accessible, although performance is likely to be patchy until the official launch. There was initially speculation from Niall that it would be an RSS Search that was going to be launched – maybe that is coming as […]
Comment Feeds
At a Pre-OpenTech Dinner last night, I was listening in to a conversation between Jeremy and Peter about RSS/feed applications. And I realised what I’m missing in my aggregator – the ability to mark posts of interest so that I get updated on the comments. This needs to be accompnaied by a clean-up process, which […]
Big Ad
Probably the best ad in the world…and it’s not for Carlsberg. Take a look at this fantastic, tongue-in-cheek add for Carlton Draught Beer.
Modern Etiquette
THere’s a website that is run locally, for local news. It has a forum section for quesitons and debate. One of the latest questions: “What exactly does one do on the Tube when one spots a nervous-looking fellow passenger of Middle Eastern or Pakistani appearance with a rucksack?” And then suggest a few course of […]
What not to do
1. Call a clothing line TwattyGirl. At least if you you want anything but hassle in the UK. The Press Release just gives us gem after PR gem, the crowning glory being ‘twattyisms’. Only in the US would this be done srriously; here, we’d add a lot more irony. Via PSFK 2. Yell out the […]
Listening In
From the Flickr Blog, one of the reasons they get such a following (apart from being a wonderful product). An apology for services not rendered and a call for feedback, to help drive the next stages. Being prepared to listen and answer to customers, to be aware of when things go wrong and then recognise […]
Getting Home
I was out of the office all day visiting an agency and following the news online. Got home by cab, better than trying to work with the tube system. As with 2 weeks ago, wikinews was a great summary page, especially when BBC/Sky etc were down. The funiest quote: “The man who was holding the […]
Here we go again
Not even at my work so have no bar this time… Info here London Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair has confirmed that there have been three small explosions at Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd’s Bush tube stations. Incidents have also been reported on a bus in Hackney and at Waterloo Station. The Northern line, the […]
Further tracking
Blogpulse have launched a tracking tool, allowing analytical data to be pulled out about specific blogs; there are plenty of links around to it this morning. It would be better if it wasn’t broken with this random error mesage: HTTP ERROR: 500 java%2Enet%2EConnectException%3A+Connection+refused
Growth Curve
The Ask Jeeves blog has some analysis of its Bloglines Service. There are a lot of blogs out there, being created left, right and centre, but 1,121,655 of them have atttracted at least one person to subscribe to a feed via Bloglines. They range from blogs with just one person subscibed through the dominance of […]
Greasemonkey2
On a follow up to the Greasemonkey issues, Flickr offer some nice customer service – warning users if they are using the older version that carries the vulnerabilities.
Google Moon
And it’s not even April 1. Google Moon commemorates the anniversary of the moon landings, with the explanation here. Zoom right up close… Via The Register
Greasemonkey
I use Greasemonkey for a number of scripts, primarily geotaggging for the geobloogers site. Now a pretty serious security flaw has been discovered, so time to update to the neutered version until they fix it.
Accessories
Via Metro, the ultimate iPod Accesory, the Audi-Oh.. It plugs into the iPod and translates the musical rythms into a variable vibration pattern; what you do with it is up to you, but the website subtly explains the reasons for it. It appears to have been around for nearly a year, must have missed it […]
Harry Potter
I picked up the new Harry Potter over the weekend (along with the rest of the 3% of the population who also bought it). It’s nice to see that free enterprise is alive and well, as copies flooded Mumbai on Monday. However, they were not as fast as the digital copies; the book was scanned, […]
Subscriptions and Readers
Nice to see that Bloglines is finally back. It was out of action all day, first of all with no feeds present at all and then feeds with no upaftes. It;s slowly coming back to normal but not all there yet. According to their news page, a cache server went down.
Plans
Got a busy few days ahead. Thursday, there’s a couple of farewell parties at work – so free food and drink. Friday, I’m here, at this week’s geek dinner and Saturday I’m at Opentech in Hammersmith. Sunday – I sleep. Meanwhile, just seen why they delayed the CSI season closer last week on Channel5; yuck, […]
Fishy Business
The BBC has a lovely article about a piece of digital art that can be found at Tingrith Fisheries. Fish in the lake at the fishery are tracked hydrophonically and their movements translated into a soundscape and an animated representation of the fishes’ movements. How is this done? The fish are “slit open and miniature […]