I’m currently writing an essay to a deadline, January 31st, which is uncomfortably reminding me what it was like being a student. Okay, it’s technically a paper rather an essay, and it’s not being marked, but the pressure feels real enough. The title is ‘Exploring museum collections online: the quantitative method’, and it’s a paper [...]
Okay, so I think everybody should be seeing this new blog now (the DNS change takes a while to update). You’ll notice that this is a fairly standard WordPress installation, and currently looks much like millions of other blogs out there. Well, that’s because I’ve spent around two years waiting to get round to redesigning [...]
I mentioned earlier that I’d migrated this blog from Movable Type to WordPress. I thought I should say some more about that. When I started my blog (way back in November 2003), Movable Type was the best and most popular blogging software around, by quite some way. It’s written in Perl, and mostly works by [...]
The topic of the day (in offices and homes in London at least), is the new London 2012 Olympics logo. It is, of course, pretty rubbish, and I predict that we’ll see a growing uprising (and subsequent media reportage) against it over the coming days and weeks. Possibly even followed by a humiliating climb-down. I [...]
I don’t know him, have never met him, but I subscribe his blog and find it interesting, so I want to wish Dan Lockton the best of luck with his upcoming PhD. He’s going to be continuing on his theme of Architectures of Control, looking specifically at the environmental impact of products. He’s outlined his [...]
I like drinking fruit smoothies, and the Innocent range is definitely the best of the bunch (even if the most expensive). Their website is okay too, and recently they’ve started a blog. The blog was all going okay, but then they posted two posts one Friday afternoon, one containing a picture of their Dutch marketing [...]
The 6music dj, tv scriptwriter and Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins has a new blog. His old blog was on the 6music website (which he managed to keep up for 35 weeks, writing stacks and stacks). In the first post of his new blog, he outlines his reasons for switching sites: “The drawback with [...]
Yesterday evening I set up a student radio weblog for the Student Radio Association. This is something we’ve been planning to do for a while – as I reckon that it might turn out to be a good way to share experience and knowledge amongst student radio stations, as I describe in the blog is [...]
The whole of London (and bits of the rest of the world, it seems) has been following the story of the whale that managed to find itself lost in our river Thames. Much has been made of the role of the public in reporting this story. It’s a good example because it happened in a [...]
When comment moderation isn't fast enough
Darren Waters has written a blog post on the BBC’s interesting new technology blog dot.life (is that pronounced ‘dot dot life’?), asking for names of important people in technology, for some kind of marketing event being run by Intel. When I read it, there was only one comment, and no mention of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor [...]