Thought I’d break blog silence (only just got internet at home again) to post a link to Launchball, a game that we’ve just launched on the Science Museum website. I’m immensely proud of it – even though an agency, Preloaded, did the actual design and production for us. Pushing through the idea of simply doing [...]
This is good news, the Wellcome Trust have just launched the Wellcome Images website, where a load of its images have been released under Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC and BY-NC-ND) – see their announcement and coverage on the Creative Commons blog. This is significant for two reasons. One, because they are one of the first [...]
A post on the BBC Editors blog announces some developments on the BBC News’s Have Your Say forums. With each story they are now publishing the numbers of rejected comments and the number of comments in the moderation queue. If you sign in, it also tells you the status of all of your comments. The [...]
After introducing you to my new on TV tonight website a couple of months ago, I now want to point you towards another new whimsical side project of mine, Popular Misconceptions. Some of my friends and family will have heard me spout on about this idea for years (indeed, I’ve sat on the domain a [...]
This weblog is getting to be a bit broken at the moment. I’ve reached the disk space limit for my hosting deal, and don’t want to have to pay for the next step up. The bandwidth is exceeding 3GB a month too, and costing a small fortune. I’m hoping to solve this by moving the [...]
Just launched our new Science Museum website at work, although it may take a while for the new DNS entries to propagate. I’ve written a page briefly describing the new website structure, and will no doubt write more about the process by which we re-designed it over the coming weeks, but for now, have a [...]
I watch a fair bit of TV, maybe a few hours an evening, as a way of relaxing and being entertained without having to do much. The problem is that, whilst there’s usually a couple of good things on per evening, they’re ever more thinly spread out among a growing range of channels. I’d be [...]
I just watched Alan Yentob’s Imagine tv programme on the topic of the web, mostly because it was on after the news and happened to catch my eye. The programme starts with the invention of computers, romps through creation of the Internet and soon whizzes past the introduction of the world wide web (albeit via [...]