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 …
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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 …
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 …
Speaking at Open Tech 2008
Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at. The Schedule includes the very lovely Kim Plowright talking about art history with Matt Webb, which will be worth the price of admission on …
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 …
Policing vs Guidelines
I regularly get asked one particular question when I talk about social software in the workplace: “How do you police it?” The answer, which might surprise you, is that you don’t, You can’t. You physically can’t monitor, review and approve everything all your employees are doing. Instead, you need to use trust. IBM recently published …
“Where do you find the time?” Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus might be a good name for a band. I found this video of Clay Shirky at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco via Warren Ellis. It is 15 minutes long, and the territory covered includes… The critical technology for the early phase of the industrial revolution was …
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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 …
Blogjects and Tweetjects
Before there were blogjects, there were blobjects. In the closing speech at SIGGRAPH 2004, Bruce Sterling started by talking about blobjects, or blob-shaped consumer items. Blobjects are the period objects of our time. They are the physical products that the digital revolution brought to the consumer shelf. Sterling goes on (via ‘gizmos’, the current state …