Following the scifi channel’s survey, they have taken out a 4 page ‘advertising feature’ in this morning’s Metro. Their focus is on being a TV geek, clothes geek or travel geek in 1985, 2005 and 2025 (with Lost finally ending and a new TV reality show ‘Lost in Space’ where 10 contestants are set adrift […]
Measurement and Links
Via Problogger, I see that Topix.net has started indexing blogs. Topix Tags Blogs Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. Blog posts are being categorized into our 30,000 local feeds as well as our 300,000 subject feeds. Our search results now include blog results, and posts should show up on our […]
eMarketer republishes survey
eMarketer published details about the Edelman/Technorati survey that was published around a month ago. Surprisingly, given how long it was in the genesis, there is little, if any additonal commentary with the report; the numbers have been recut slightly to fall into the publication guide. However, it does provide you a link at the bottom […]
Mechanical Turk
Along with many other people, I’ve been playing around with Amazon’s new tool Mechanical Turk, a mechanism to apply distributed human intelligence to mundane tasks that are still too complicated for comouters. I’m guessing I’m one of many given the poor availability of the service over the weekend – it was ‘unavailable’ for the majority […]
It’s all on the internet
‘It’s all on the internet’ – my comment to my brother-in-law who was trying to fix a driver problem, get firewall/antivirus applications (at last!) and find a CD ripper. At this point my frustration came through as I dictated various names for him to go and find. It looks like they are going to be […]
Hard men and their women
Do these guys plan this? The two actors who play the soap Eastender’s hard men the Mitchell brothers (Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden) were alledgedlyl both assulted by women inthe last 24 hours. Weird.
Sony DRM and Rootkits
Over on Sysinternals, Mark Russinovich has done a superb piece of detective work into a rootkit that he had found on his machine. After a long investigation, he found that it had originated from a Sony music CD; there appeared to be no warning of this installation, nor anyway to remove the software. Using standard […]
MeasureMap Overview
I’m going to be playing round with the alpha release of Measure Map over the next week or so, using it to take a look at visitor statistics. On my first look I like it, with a comfortable interface that just makes me wnat to click things. I need a lot more information on it […]
Public Relations Online
I attended a launch party last night for Public Relations Online, “a forum showcasing how brands can protect themselves and improve relationships with partners, customers and press by using new techniques such as web-monitoring, blogging, and search engine optimisation.” A lot of enthusiasm to embrace the different ways of working, with a frank acknowledgement (with […]
Podcast nominated for BAFTA
Great to see the Ewan has been nominated for a BAFTA for his Edinburgh fringe podcasts, under Best Interactive Media. Great news for a new medium. Meanwhile, Llloyd gives us a further installment of his male grooming product review. Although he may not be ready for a BAFTA yet, you do get G-room shampoo and […]
Microsoft OfficeLive
One of the other things announced yesterday by Microsoft was OfficeLive. This is still in development with it going into beta (to US residents only) in early 2006. Looking at the domains, live.com was first registered in 1994. I wonder how much Microsoft paid for it?
Time out
I took some time off yesterday and ended up in Trafalgar Square during the broadcast of the memorial service for the victims of the July bombings. There were a lot of cameras there, both TV and press. Most people watched and contemplated, except for 2 I noticed. The first was a guy who wondered round […]
Spending Marketing budgets in new ways
The Budget Treasure Hunt enters it second week, with three winners announced. For a blog supporting a campaign it appears to be appears to be rather light on posts on the main page, even with the weekend getting in the way, but the Hunters’ Stories page, which is competitor driven, is busier . Evelyn Rodriguez […]
Microsoft announces live.com
Microsoft are currently announcing some new services, one of which is live.com. errr….isn’t this start.com, with added email? I can sign in with my Passprt so it recognises me. Iit currently only works in IE (although Firefox appears to be coming soon) I can add feeds (no mention of RSS) and a few widgets, such […]
British Citizenship Test
The Government are starting a citizenship test from today, to test applicants knowledge of the culture, laws and lifestyle of the country they wish to be join. I took the BBC’s pretend version of the test. Unfortunately I only scored 66%, not the required 75%…right, I’ll get my coat then..
Holiday Greetings
Although I think Debenhams is just slightly too early for me…let’s get Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night out the way first. The decorations were going up all over the street today, with much of the pavement roped off to allow the men access to the trees along the street in complete safety. Of course, the people […]
Add your own commentary for posters
Adrants points to the fact that posters of 50Cents which were part of the Bubble Project seems to have scared people off. The project puts little speech bubbles on posters to encourage people to add their own commentary. Mexx (a clothing store) appear to have been trying to do the same thing with their recent […]
Another Bohemian Rhapsody
I’ve seen a Royal Navy version, a cartoon version, now the funniest yet, the Lost version. Safe for work even if your version of the websence blocker bans it. (then again ours I have no idea what ours it up to given some of the things it blocks). Via YbNbY PS – love the nod […]
Blackberry Women and Technology Awards
There’s a definite theme to today’s posts. In a far more serious vein, the Blackberry Women and Technology Awards were announced last week. The overall winner, Jackie Edwards, is a lecturer at De Montfort University and her award was focused on her work in opening up technology to other women through a Women’s Access to […]
Women and Conferences
Whilst on the subject of the increasing female interest in all things geek, Danah Boyd posts about a Long Tail Camp. In keeping with an open-souce camp, there’s a page asking for topics to be discussed. Somehow I think this particular topic may not be that popular in open forum… Long-Tail Camp Requests How to […]