Roo Reynolds - What’s Next?

Links for 2008-05-25

Posted by Roo - 25/05/08 at 11:05:53 pm

• bowblog: What is Speechification? - Steve describes Speechfication. “we roam the corridors of the BBC’s archive selecting the stuff we think is really excellent, unusual or important and putting it on display”
• Wikiscanner reveals amusing HP-on-IBM vandalism - http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr is great, and helped me spot this cute litte edit from 2006. “Dell have now bought IBM”. http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=15.203.169.125 tells me that creative vandalism was someone with a Hewlett-Packard IP address. Nice.
• BuzzMachine: Twitter as the canary in the news coalmine - Jeff Jarvis on Twiter and news gathering. This is his draft (when the Guardian printed it they chopped it a little).
• Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - Twitter HQ on current architectural problems: “We’re planning for a gradual transition; our existing system will be maintained while new parts are built, and old parts swapped out for new as they’re completed.” The sooner the better, but good luck to them
• russell davies: BlackBoardPro - I saw this in the flesh (um, paint) recently. It’s great.
• The Encyclopedia of Business Cliches - Welcome to my world. Seth Godwin got the ball rolling, now anyone can add their own. Great list.
• How To Delete Your Plaxo Account - “If you want to delete your Plaxo account you must follow these two simple steps:”
• IBM Lotus Connections Evangelist now works at Jive - Gia Lyons will be missed at big blue
• Interesting 2008: an incomplete list of interesting speakers - Speaker list looks amazing. I’m proud to be on there too. (”Roo’s going to do three minutes about Lego”).
• Energy Monitor comparison chart - Comparison of some of the devices on the market.
• plus six: Counting the Cost - Another one joins the CurrentCost gang. “I now have the unit connected to my Mac. It turns out that the data cable has a converter chip in it, and that the signals are 3.3V”
• COPE: James Wallis levels with you » Current fun - “you can put down your crimpers and Maplin catalogue because Current Cost sell data-cables to those in the know. Send a cheque or purchase order for £11.12 per cable” James has some interesting thoughts about power monitoring + games too.
• twistori - “This is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter” [via:Ian Smith]
• NodeBox - “NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie.”