Many news organisations are busy reporting on how various institutions are editing their own entties, or stuff to improve their standing in others. (here’s the latest from the BBC about the Australian Prime Minister’s office). But the Scottish Sun is hitting the local demographic and is reporting on how Local Firm fans, Celtic and Rangers, […]
Vint Cerf at the TV Festival
Vint Cerf: The Alternative McTaggert Vint gave an alternative McTaggert speech this year. The official one was by Jeremy Paxman on Friday, discussing the future of TV and the trust situation it currently finds itself in. Vint gave a slight variation on the same speech I saw at Google earlier in the year, calling out […]
Ian Clarke, Freenet, Revver and Thoof
Ian Clarke Freenet and Revver Founded Revver to help copyright holders get paid for their work. copyright cannot be controlled onthe web – the web is all about communication and Copyright is to prevent communications. Revver gave an incentive to create and spread videos. Has raised 10m$ in A&B rounds of financing. Many people have […]
ARGs and Meigeist
Licorice Film Hazel Grian and Jonathan Williams About: started as a marketing tool. First key one recognised was The Beast, where cryptic messages led people to the web and a whole different story. Hazel cam it to from the POV of a film maker and story teller. Wanted to reach a larger audience. Wanted to […]
Open Rights Group Pres
ORG talk Some notes from the ORG presentation: Too many things are not caught til too late – far easier to tackle things earlier. ORG formed to tackle things earlier, to campaign on digital issues. Based on EFF. Formed when Suw Charman said she would like to organise something in the UK, but only if […]
BBC Backstage Edinburgh TV Unfestival
I’m in Edinburgh today for the TV Unfest, an unconference based all around TV, as an adjunct to the Media Guardian TV Festival.
Trip to Edinburgh
I’m doing a quick trip to Edinburgh over the weekend, to go to the TV Unconference and then the main TV Festival. Looking forward to it, despite the impending jetlag.
Vegan Meals
Last night I had dinner with a few people at Red Bamboo, a vegan restaurant. This place seems to make it’s name from the fake food it provides – soy protein shaped and flavoured to pretend to be meat. We had ‘Chicken’ wings, ‘prawns’, just ‘meat’ in general. There you see fake prawns, shaped and […]
Doing my bit to spread the meme of bacn
I did my bit for the spread of bacn this week, bumping into Caroline McCarthy at the Crunchgear party. Today the term has made BoingBoing, or at least the buzz about the buzz about the term has: as of today, Wednesday, according to Technorati, there are over 350 blog posts containing the word, and it’s […]
You are never too old
Through a serendipitous meeting yesterday, doing some work on another conference, I got invited to a BBQ in Queens yesterday (my first visit to the Borough). Whilst there, I had a good chat with the main host, a 70+ year old gentleman who talked about his media habits and how so many companies just did […]
Gnomedex Review
I’ve finally got round to posting this. I had to decamp to a coffee shop to focus on actually getting some writing done as lazing around at home was just not cutting it. My 2007 Gnomedex experience is now over. I’ve had 2 days of conference, a further day of unconference and networking, a bit […]
Mahalo for my sister
Mahalo is brilliant, or so says my sister. That’s what she thought when she took a look at it after looking at Twitters about it. When I asked why she thought that, here’s what she said. Wow – now I do not have to spend hours searching for things on the Web – I can […]
Barcamp NYC3 is being planned
After an email to the barcamp list, I sent round an email to a few other lists today to kick start the planning for Barcamp New York City 3. And thanks to Dean Collins, we already have our first donation and sponsorship money. If you are interested, then come along to one of the meetings […]
Clipmarks and Forbes
Do I believe what it says in the blogs? This time I hope so – Venture Beat is reporting that Clipmarks is being bought by Forbes. The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to your […]
TPN at the Fringe
Nice to see Ewan’s annual Fringe Podcast show is doing well, being the top one in the iTunes catalogue. I recommend tuning in if you want a great taste of the legendary festival
Hair Makeover
My hair got used as a model for a website – as part of a Hair Makeover tool for Sunsilk. So I took one of the original shots (on the left) and added my own hair back onto my face to see what the different colours look like. I do like the red!
Mahalo and Local Focus
I’ve said before, I like Mahalo, and Jason Calacanis’ latest push is for is How To pages, such as the How to Fly With Kids that he posted about today. But I have one thing to add: Please remember that the English-speaking world is bigger than the USA, that flying takes place outside of USA […]