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Links for 2008-09-17

Posted by Roo - 17/09/08 at 12:09:05 am

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment/Arts | New Hitchhiker’s author announced - Uh-oh. “My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series” You and everyone else, Eoin.
• Wired UK Archive - Wired UK, 95 - 97. Special days. “This archive isn’t complete, but the majority of articles are included”
• BBC Internet Blog - Dan Taylor guest posting on the BBC Internet blog about today’s BBC television site relaunches.
• Boing Boing: Radio documentary on RAND Corporation - Speechification gets Boing Boinged.
• Meme Breaks 1.0: scratch for great justice - The Internet’s most famous audio samples in DJ-friendly format.
• Magical Nihilism - Moleitau is harder to say than Blackbeltjones.
• dale lane: CurrentCost @ BathCamp - Dale’s recent CurrentCost presentation at BathCamp. Now that there’s a freely available MQTT broker, the world gets a little bit better.
• compfight / a flickr™ search tool - Nice.
• Twittex — twitter in your pocket - “twittex is a simple prepay service that delivers twitter updates from your friends to your mobile phone via SMS.” TweetSMS competitor
• Raptr: What are you playing? - “Raptr is the social platform for people who like to play and discover games”
• Cult of Mac: BBC Radio in iTunes - “in short, Matthew’s code grabs the BBC’s Flash-based online radio service and hooks it up with iTunes, ending the need for using horrible Real Player (and therefore browsers or Dashboard widgets that depend on it)”
• Virtual Worlds News: Virtual Worlds Expo Round Up - Great selection of announcements and links.
• Redux - “Discover and create interactive playlists of videos and product”
• guardian.co.uk: A friend online is a friend indeed - I first noticed this because it contains a link to my ambient skype blog post (look for the text “quasi-ambient communicators”)
• Atmosphir - Free Video Game Creation Tool for Mac and PC - “Atmosphir is a free video game / creation tool for Mac & PC. Design mode lets you create enormous 3D platforming levels filled with fun gameplay elements like power-ups and fireballs, while Play”
• Whitehall Webby : Five words I hate at work - “Facilitate, Stakeholders, Engagement, Optimise, Transitioned”. I wonder what my five would be.
• MaxFunCon - “MaxFunCon is an intimate, weekend-long gathering created by MaximumFun.org, the web community and online home of the public radio program The Sound of Young America, its blog, and its affiliated podcasts. Join us June 12th through 14th, 2009, and be entertained, informed and befriended.”

I’ve not done these for a while. I still can’t decide whether to publish them as blog posts, include them in the feed but not show them as posts, or neither. I like it when people comment on them though (and when I was doing them regularly that did happen quite a bit) so I’ll try doing a couple a week and see how it goes. Let me know (in a comment or email) whether you have strong feelings either way.