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 […]
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Jesse Thorn interviews Ze Frank
Perhaps the two most awesome people on the internet, making each other laugh and talking about the web for half an hour. Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America from Jesse Thorn on Vimeo. Ze talks about ‘internet icebreakers’ and the web as a participatory platform “…around 2003 it became very obvious that the […]
The first FT Blogger Meet
Ben Matthews from Hotwire PR recently invited a handful of UK bloggers to spend an afternoon with The Financial Times. I was intrigued. Or rather, I was interested while also being nervous that my soul might be sapped. I went along anyway. I’m glad I did. I got to meet Neville Hobson, Sarah Blow (Girly […]
My CV, as a Wordle tag cloud
Inspired by Ian I’ve just dumped my CV into Wordle (which I bookmarked last week but forgot to write about. It’s great). Lots of options for fiddling with and it’s really easy to make something gorgeous. Update: compare and contrast (inspired by Andy) the tags on my del.icio.us account I’ve wanted a beautiful tag cloud […]
She Went Of Her Own Accord (.com)
In case you missed it, the super secret new side-project has finally gone live. Nick and I have wanted to do this for a few years. I registered the domain recently and we quietly hacked an instance of WordPress in our spare time last week to get something usable in place. Today, shewentofherownaccord.com is a […]
Links for 2008-05-31
Robokill – Lovely top-down robot RPG shooter game [via:waxy Tegaki blog – “It’s easy to create handwriting blog by mouse!” BBC: Sound Index – “The Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.” … “IBM’s Semantic Super Computing is used to […]
Hansard on the Internet
Hansard (the “edited verbatim report of proceedings” of the House of Commons and the House of Lords) has been online for a while. The official site currently has records of debates and answers to oral and written questions dating back to November 1988). The paper records date back a lot further of course, and it’s […]
Links for 2008-05-25
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 […]
Jordan, Jesse, GO!
Jordan, Jesse, GO! is probably the best entertainment podcast going. I’m a few weeks behind (I’ve clearly neither been flying recently nor mowing my lawn enough) but here’s the episode I’m listening to tonight. Join me. Any show which has a forum and a voicemail account hotline (+1 206-984-4FUN) has to be good. I’m not […]
In search of the perfect blogging tool
I’ve been hunting for a Mac equivalent to Windows Live Writer. Here’s my personal checklist/wishlist of what an offline blogging tool should do. .urgh {border-spacing:0px; border:solid 1px black; margin:0px; padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; } Ecto (Mac & Windows) MarsEdit (Mac only) Qumana (Mac and Windows) Windows Live Writer (Windows only) Easy (mouse-free) way to add links by […]