- Carson Workshops have a whole bunch of photos from the recent Future of Web Apps event up on their Flickr account And looking at them, I’m terrified by how exhausted and fried I look in every single photo of me. It’s like I’ve been replaced by some freakish semi-dead lych…
- Photoshopblog.net has a tutorial in which flesh is branded… It’s quite gross, a little sexy and highly informative! What’s not to like? I mean, really. Seriously. What’s not to like?!
- Jake Gyllenhaal rides into film A-list “Jake Gyllenhaal’s Bafta win is one of the highest recognition to date for a young actor who has managed to mix acclaimed offbeat work with mainstream offerings.”
- 37 Signals release Campfire – providing ‘simple group chat for business’ As with many of the more recent 37 Signals products, I’m a bit at a loss as to whether it’s really worth the money that they charge for it. It seems nice enough for a chat app. Um.
- Second Chance Tuesday aims to replicate all the mistakes of the last dot.com boom in London Some ways to fuck up a good thing: don’t trust the people who build things, be parochial in your thinking, look for short-term gain rather than building something with a future, don’t care about quality, take lots of drugs. Please let’s make boom two less tedious and obvious than boom one? Maybe this time we can make something lasting?
- From a month ago: Warner Brothers announce they’re going to sell movies online I’m really interested in this whole selling TV and movies stuff online after my time at the BBC – mainly wondering why the BBC isn’t working with these players to find a space for public sector distribution…
- ‘Sleeping on it’ best for complex decisions – this may be more true of me than other people… ‚ÄúAt some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we‚Äôre not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things”
- Current state of the art in graphic design for the web… Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I’d put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that’s just me…
- Are we held hostage by Yahoo’s acquisitions? It’s always worth remembering that most acquisitions come at the point where sites are growing pretty rapidly and that scaling is a difficult and time consuming business…
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The Second Chance Tuesday people were on Radio 4’s The World Tonight a couple of weeks ago. Sadly I got burnt out on bitterness a couple of years ago. Shame, because there’s still not nearly enough people pointing out what a bunch of rubbish is coming out of the current, well, whatever it is. Hype, I think, feels like the best word.
Mind you, I did like pfig’s take on Campfire, but then I use IRC and screen and we have a bot that announces file uploads. Plus, web page discussions are for losers. Mailing lists and usenet ARE STILL COOL.