November 2008
48 posts
IFeelLondon →
BOOK Brunch: the SYP Conference →
Well who’s that handsome fellow….
“Publishers continue to have a mediating role,” said Bhaskar, “and need to be more creative, to position themselves as a ‘curator of stories’”.
Exactly.
The Blackberry Dud →
Glad I didn’t buy a Blackbery Storm now.
“[US Government debt] is a direct result of [Bush’s] tax cuts, 47.4 percent...”
– Barack Obama in The Audacity of Hope.
StumbleUpon
Everything about the front page of StumbleUpon is, IMO, good. It looks shiny, designed, cool, webby without following a cliched web 2.0 application look. It feels like SU is offering a unique and interesting service, even if that service is not quite clear at first glance. I was planning to use SU for some research, and had some positive initial experiences despite the interfaces being confusingly...
West Ham Chants →
Super Obama World →
What happens if you cross the President Elect with the Super Mario Bros? Super Obama World, an ingenious homage to the original NES Mario Bros game, except in this version you play Super Obama, the setting is Alaska, your enemies are literally pigs with lipstick and coins are US flags.
The Size Of Our World →
Twittervision →
So while I am on the topic of Twitter I might as well post this, which was just pointed out by @stephenfry. He said “L33t! It soooooo rox” and it sure does. There is always something magical about these Twitter visualisations, the API as quasi Gnostic insight; the discrete vocies of the world emerging from and fading into the ether like far off, intimate ghosts.
Downfall Mashups →
Article in the Times about the Youtube mashups of Hitler going crazy in Downfall. They are very funny, although a classic rant about Twitter being down isn’t included. The Ronaldo one has over a million hits.
SYP Conference: Publishing 2.0 →
Just spoke at this event and joined a panel answering questions. The theme of the event was “The Reader Revolution”, so, with very limited time to prepare I decided to take the obvious route- that is challenge the very concepts themselves.
So on the one hand we don’t have a revolution, at least not from a publishing perspective, as in fact the ebook process replicates and exists...
Joycean Brick
An incredibly cool thing has just happened. An esteemed relative of mine, an Irish translator and writer, has just sent me possibly the world’s most awesome gift: a brick from James Joyce’s house. When the house was being demolished a barrister bought up all the bricks and then gave them out to friends, one of which has now been kindly sent to me.
Joyce is one of my literary heroes....
Digital Youth Project: Conclusions →
Freebase- the semantic Wikipedia →
If You've Just Come From Facebook....Welcome!
So this is the thing itself. Check out the archioves for what has gone before, sign up for the RSS if you are interested and do say hi on one of the sites listed at the bottom.
I say.
WatchA few weeks out of date, but nonetheless, this is the insane future.
Union North's Three Towers in Manchester →
Obama's wi-fi White House speaks to the YouTube... →
The Women Addicted to Facebook →
BBC NEWS | Inmate escapes German jail in box →
The Doorstopper- my take →
Alexisonfire →
Somebody should really stop me from listening to this music.
Penguin Sets Boys Own Adventures →
I'm a PC →
At the risk of being a dick, I am about to big up another advertising campaign. For, gasp, Microsoft. Listening to last.fm came across an ad featuring Pharrel called I’m a PC. This is such an awesome riposte to the whole I’m a Mac crap. That campaign eventually really pissed me off. I don’t have a Mac. Shockingly I don’t want one. This spins the whole concept on its head,...
Blackberry vs. iPhone vs. G1 v.s N96 (pink Pearl...
SmartPhone Wars Part Deux comes to an end with the victory of the Blackberry Pearl (as mentioned, in pink).
So it wasn’t the first choice (iPhone) or the second (G1). That’s because both of these phones are only available on 18 month contracts. I don’t want an 18 month contract. The networks know the phones won’t last, but still they insist. Infuriating.
Choice three...
Hexadecimal Palette →
Does what it says on the tin. Useful and pretty. Yay.
50 Strange Buildings of the World →
BLDGBLOG →
Just discovered this via the Penguin Blog. Possibly my new favourite blog. Archtitecture, check. The Future, check. Madness, brilliance and monstrous scale? Check.
Book Covers For Today →
Opposite of Zero Comments... →
Courtesy of, who else, the President Elect.
"ebooks have "Real future"" →
Digital Riverside →
First we had Silicon Roundabout. Now we have Digital Riverside. Well done London Valley, you are still well on the way to tech geography stardom.