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Inside the brain of Adam Curtis

I don’t often talk about work projects, but I cant hold my tongue about this one. I’ve been rather excited about it for a while, and it went live today. Adam Curtis is the documentary filmmaker behind ‘The Power of Nightmares‘, ‘The Century of the Self‘ and more. Recently, he’s done some pieces for Screenwipe […]

Links for 2008-05-09

IBM Social Computing Guidelines – “we turned to IBMers again to re-examine our guidelines and determine what needed to be modified. The effort has broadened the scope of the existing guidelines to include all forms of social computing.” sacha chua: The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work – Sketched by Sacha on a […]

Links for 2008-04-29

eco gadget shop: Current Cost monitor – “a device which receives information on electricity consumption from a transmitter attached to the domestic meter. The device then calculates the amount and cost of the electricity consumed” (in case you were wondering how to get hold of one) O’ReillyGMT: Speechification – “I can say categorically that Speechification […]

Links for 2008-03-01

Create a Google Talk chatback badge – Handy. Not sure I want to use it, but handy. KnowledgeBoard – ‘IBM gambles on a shift from the KM model’ – “the decentralising impact of Web 2.0 calls for a new approach, or what the big blue calls ‘knowledge sharing’” Baekdal.com: Lenovo X300 is Not a Cool […]

Watchification

I’ve been helping out as the ‘chief engineer’ at Speechification for a while, and I’m now proud to be joining Russell and Steve in making Watchification happen too. The aim of the project is reassuringly simple: in the same way that Speechification curates speech radio from around the world, we want to make it easy […]

Links for 2008-02-18

cityofsound: The street as platform – An amazing essay on the (near) future for the urban environment. Watchification – Speechification goes televisual. No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock – “BioShock may have been conceived as a study in nuance, a place for gamers to discover and explore at their own pace, but its dip […]

Links for 2008-01-29

Testing Blues – “Test is the new development” – the thoughts of some interesting people in IBM Hursley with an interest in testing. Guy Kawasaki: How to Change the World: Forget the A-List After All – “Evangelism is not about sucking up to only people who are famous and self-important” … “It was unknown artists, […]

Links for 2008-01-18

earideas – “Earideas is a collection of the best thoughtful audio available on the web” An Eclectic Mind : Some Thoughts on the MacBook Air – “I believe that the 12” PowerBook is the best notebook computer Apple has ever made. Perfectly sized for travel, … I wish Apple would have brought that up to […]

Links for 2008-01-02

/Message: The Cult Of The CEO Gene – Stowe on decentralisation: “the successful companies of the future will be increasingly egalitarian, with more control shifting into the hands of individuals, starting with daily decisions about everyday work at a project or transactional level” /Message: The Year Ahead: The Past Year As Context – Stowe on […]