- 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.”
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I love the blackboard pro, fantastic. It’s a shame that it’s such an indictment of modern computer technology. (I mean, come on, they’re even called “notebook computers”, and the fact that the technology the romans used was better for many of the important appliations is something of downer).
It’d be great if it had some kind of chalk sensor, so after bootup, the laptop would be aware of what was written on it.