Roo Reynolds - What’s Next?

Links for 2007-11-30

Posted by Roo - 30/11/07 at 10:11:13 pm

• Boagworld podcast – Show 102: Worktime blues – “On this week’s show: Paul looks at why you should have a training budget and how to spend it. Marcus looks at capturing requirements and Roo Reynolds introduces us to the possibilities of virtual worlds and their impact on web design.” + transcript
• zefrank.com: on feeling uninspired – “Who was this person that said you have to wait for inspiration to start making something”. Reminds me (in a good way) of the Braincrack episode from way back.
• Google Reader: recommendations and drag-and-drop – Some nifty new features from Google Reader
• Tweet Scan – Real-time Twitter Search
• eWeek.com: The Mashing of Virtual Reality, Social Computing – “IBM Lotus programmers and engineers from IBM’s research groups are currently working on ways to employ virtual reality technologies with Lotus Connections social computing software, said Jeff Schick, vice president of social computing for IBM.”
• BBC Radio 2 – Vic Reeves’ House Arrest – ‘Comedy’ apparently, though you’d have trouble spotting this. I usually love Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer AND Noel Fielding, yet this show falls utterly flat for me. 30 minutes and not one chuckle. A total let-down.
• BBC Pods and Blogs – Chris Vallance on After Our Time, Speechification, etc – Chris Vallance: “As a broadcaster I’d like to see us making it easier for people to remix our content in inventive ways that enhance what we do, ‘in house’. Lets help out our fans.”
• Now Playing – Real time artist information – This is a cute mashup. Top Amazon and Yahoo results for whatever is playing right now on a selection of music radio stations.
• Mal Burns Annex: Computer Prediction from 1964. – Not far off. “What the wife pays for at her console will be paid for by the husband at his console” made me chuckle. But look at the wires! The wires!
• After Our Time – “a website dedicated to the BBC Radio 4 programme “In Our Time” – Stunning blog/wiki/forum curated by Adrian Hon which unpicks and explicates ‘In Our Time’, one of the best things on Radio 4. Wonderful!
• Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player – Open platform, lots of content. Must try this.
• Philip Rosedale: Long Road Behind, Long Road Ahead – Linden Lab’s mission: “To connect everyone to an online world that improves the human condition.”
• Iceland Airwaves press clippings – (PS: hangovercast) – “Check out Roo Reynolds’ Hangovercast. Five episodes of Airwaves-related hilarity. Perhaps the finest hungover rock journalism recorded in a jaccuzi we’ve heard all day.” Wow! The hangovercasts got linked from icelandairwaves.com.