February 2010
16 posts
First Column on Book Brunch: Three things... →
On a regular, but irregular, basis I will be writing about the world of digital publishing for the Book Brunch newsletter/website. This is the first instalment. Many more to follow.
WatchVia @picadorbooks.
Tired of London, Tired of Life →
New fuel to the London trivia obsession (new to me anyway). I Never Knew That About London, via Dr. Johnson, in daily chunks, with pubs, food and assorted events. This blog is superb.
Please Rob Me →
Via @gunzalis. Foursquare is all very well, and sort of fun and a bit like Twitter before it got all mainstream and the media started playing, feeling fresh and cool and tech. One dabbles with it, waiting for one’s friends to join, in the meantime getting to know it faffing around with still too slow 3G connection. But then the Buzz-like backlash happened when people started realising the...
Watch the Trans-Siberian Railway. All of it. →
Google Maps now lets you watch the Trans-Siberian railway- in real time. Yes, if you are an idiot of tundra sized proportions you can take six or seven days out of your life to watch every second, every flat, monotonous second, of the railway. At one level it’s quite interesting that this now exists; interesting and indeed useful, like knowing that every book, including the crap, pointless...
The Shard Rises...Damnably Fast →
Google's Babel Fish →
When I first saw augmented reality apps the first thought was: phwoar! That looks like the future! Cool. No longer are we going to be saddo, 20th century loser n00bs. We’ve got the awesome stuff, like a real live episode of Star Trek, only with better graphics and less space. This is in that category - a service that does in-conversation translation, like Douglas Adam’s immortal Babel...
Posterous →
What a terrible irony - a link to Posterous, a micro-blogging service that may kill Tumblr. Posterous’ great boast is that to upload content to your page all you need to do is email your account. Sometimes we (you know, us) probably underestimate the barriers to entry even running a tumblelog represent to the techphobic earthlings. Posterous smacks it.
