Travelling to a conference or a geek dinner? Low budget? Need a place to stay? Try canicrash, a wiki put together by Henriette Weber Anderson to share details of people who are willing to let their couch or spare room to bloggers. Benefits: for the travelling blogger ( the crasher): – you get to stay […]
Choosing a phone
Somewhere out there, there has to be a website that offers exactly what I am after. Let me put in a list of requirements and it’ll give me a list of phones that have those features. I’m pretty sure that Nokia once had something like this, but now you can only compare phones for a […]
Viral Ads – VW lead the way
Bore Me are listing the top 10 viral downloads for the year, for both commercial ads and for more fun videos. Interestingly Volkswagon top both the polls. In the ads section, their Singin’ in the Rain mashup ad came out on top. The marketeers would be pleased with that result, but rather less pleased that […]
It’s a wonderful internet
Wonderful little tale. What would you do without the internet. “When you hear a bell, a baby website gets its own URL”. Use technorati to watch this one spread rapidly.
Technological awards
The Times does end of year ‘awards’ about technology-related things that it believes has bought in changes this year, including: timeshifting music – podcasting Artic Monkeys – the band that got to No 1 through downloads and word of mouth timeshifting TV, making TV schedulers redundant ‘citizen jounalism’ though ubiquitous cameraphones Mark Russinovich, for ‘idling […]
Christmas Carols
Rachel has an invitation to a Christmas Carol concert next Wednesday in Parliament Square. Get together to sing a whole bunch of songs but be aware of one thing – you run the risk of arrest. Please note that if you attend this carol service, it will classify as a spontaneous demonstration (of faith, hope, […]
Snippets 18 Dec
I’ve got all these open tabs that I need to close…posting them is the best way. Scott Adams wants to adopt – an embryo. Does not need a lot of space (keep. it in the freezer), cheap (no toys or clothes) and no issue with a terror toddler or a truculent teen. It may just […]
Harry Potter at the movies
I went to see the latest Harry Potter movie yesterday. This is the first of the series that I have actually seen end to end, although I’ve probably seen all of the first one in dribs and frabs, and I quite enjoyed it. I’ve read all the books, which was just as well as the […]
Encyclopediac Accuracy
The BBC are reporting a study looking at the accuracy of scientific articles on Wikipedia and the the Encyclopedia Britanica. In the articles examined, 8 serious errors were discovered, 4 in each of the sources. In order to test its reliability, Nature conducted a peer review of scientific entries on Wikipedia and the well-established Encyclopedia […]
Germ and Squirrel Free
A couple of articles caugh tmy eye in today’s Evening Standard. The first is about c2c who have just announced a new service (although not, apparently, in the news section of their website). They are going to provide cough-free carriages for the next few months, to allow their commuters to stay germ free. If a […]
Web 2.0 Validator
Are you really getting into the Web 2.0 vibe? This fun Validator allows you to assess your choice of sites against the Web 2.0 meme. I currently score 9 out of 35, but figure that if I just link to the page, mention Dave Legg and Rocketboom, and refer to lots of cool words such […]
Flickring Expectations
Last night was another of the Christmas functions at work, this time with the IT function. After dressing up and loading onto a coach, we arrived at our venue for the night – the Hard Rock Cafe – to take part in plenty of food, drink and karaoke. Scattered around the venue were dressing up […]
Dean Grey Tuesday
It’s Dean Grey Tuesday. Go and download American Edit; meanwhile I may just go and buy the original Green Day album as well as it does sound good in all the mash ups.
Photos from Paris and London
Looking Up Originally uploaded by RachelC. Here’s photos from Paris and from the London Geek Dinner
Panexa by MERD
Via Adrants, new drug has appeared on the market. Suitable for “patients experiencing one of the following disorders: metabolism, binocular vision, digestion (solid and liquid), circulation, menstruation, cognition, osculation, extremes of emotion.” Panexa has the following contraindications: * PANEXA should not be used as a physical aid to set a broken bone, as in the […]
BBC Marketing Trailer – a head too far
Seems I was not alone in disliking the BBC trailer with the disembodied heads. The BBC have dropped it after recieving complaints about it being ‘ “horrific” and “disturbingly psychotic” ‘
Saturday Conversations
Saturday was a day of interesting conversations. In the afternoon, I met up with Tara and Suw and we talked about life , the universe and blogging. Some of the conversation got recorded…I’ll need to work out if I can afford the bribe for that not to be broadcast anytime soon ;o). After that, it […]
Geek Dinner with Scoble and Global Voices
I’m off to the the Rober Scoble and Hugh MacLeod Geek Dinner tonight. It looks like it will be a different animal to previous ones, as the attendees from the Global Voices summit have been invited.
Riya Recognition
One of the good people I met in Paris was Tara Hunt, who is working with Ojos on Riya, a face recognition programme. This got some love from The Times on Wednesday. In conversation it was good to see that the company is trying to address privacy concerns, in that I may not want photos […]
Blogging for the older generation
One of women in my book club has a lot of stories to tell about internet dating and the small sideline job she does in selling sex toys to an older generation. We could be seeing a new entrant into the blogosphere in a month or so as she now seems keen to use the […]