Roo Reynolds - What’s Next?

Links for 2008-05-12

Posted by Roo - 12/05/08 at 11:05:53 am

• Acrylic | Times - “Times is a new type of newsreader for Mac OS X Leopard.” Beautiful. Could do with more customisation options, but it’s already very nice. [via:Jason Ellis]
• cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment - “Essentially, the idea is for a system that makes previously invisible aspects of people’s behaviour visible, in order to help change individual and collective behaviour. “
• Twitter and the China earthquake - “Let’s see … whether this is the moment when Twitter comes of age as a platform which can bring faster coverage of a major news event than traditional media” First comment: “That moment came a while ago… This is probably the first one that you’ve seen”
• Comment is Free: Charlie Brooker on reviewing videogames - Charlie Brooker on GTA4
• Interview - Doctor Who: Top Trumps - Great opening question: “Doctor Who is TV show that deals with issues about the nature of humanity. Top Trumps is a numbers game based on limited skill and luck. Are you underselling the licence?”
• YouTube: BeatBearing demo - “A tangible rhythm sequencer. Ball bearings are used to trigger (Roland TR-808) drum sounds. Visual feedback is provided from a CRT display underneath to indicate the current time and the state of each beat.”
• AudioTouch - The project blog for “an Interactive Multi-user, Multi-touch Musical Table”