Links for 2005-02-27

“The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working in a variety of academic disciplines to understand current and possible uses of social software in the academic context.”

You can get a Google aggregation of all the reviews for any film by typing in movie: and then the name of the film. Likely to damage my all-time web fave site metacritic.com

Much more attractively designed than the Guardian’s current crop of weblogs – we’ll have to wait and see if the content’s interesting

Looks stunning – although it’s extraordinarily weird to see animated versions of famous actors on screen…

An entire galaxy apparently composed of dark matter – couldn’t be more imaginatively evocative if it tried, even if reality will probably prove less interesting…

I read his book you know. I went out and bought his book and read it and I really quite enjoyed it. Just so’s you know…

Not sure this one’s going to take off so well – but although it’s kind of semi-joking, I think there’s a lot of value in podcasters looking towards smaller componentised chunks rather than full shows

Now if these are translucent, then they might really take off – the Apple white look should be great for non-permanent personalisation

Loved this article. Loved it. If for no other reason than because it’s about those of us who care about the web and what we can do for and with it. Brother in code, I salute thee!

The Bruce Wayne of webloggia goes batshit on podcasting’s ass. Awesome.