- Fire Eagle and Brickhouse make Business Week The recent press around Fire Eagle has been pretty interesting. It’s always interesting to see where they get some of the facts wrong. Helps me work out where we’ve not got it quite right yet.
- John Gisby’s headed over to Channel 4. He’s a nice chap who I rate and wish all the best at his new job. Channel 4 seem to be assembling quite an interesting team of people, including quite a lot of my favourite ex-BBC-ers. Very different structure by all accounts. Interested to see what happens there.
- A fascinating guide to thirty beautiful green websites! For some reason I find myself looking for ideas about how to add a layer of shine to very vibrantly green websites. Lots of ideas here…
- Vimeo.com has the world’s best Log In screen… Cal reminded me about it the other day, and since I’m in the mood for a good bit of vibrant web design action I decided to post it. Feels nice to be posting things again, by the way.
- Jeff Jarvis reports on the fun he had in London It was really nice to finally meet him. We had a great conversation about future journalism, the web of data, the XO from OLPC and the BBC. Really lovely evening. Never seen Paula squee so much either!
- ‘The Web 2.0 Grail’ is a water bottle that Tim O’Reilly drank from at Web 2.0 Berlin, as put on ebay by ‘Mister Wong’ for for some reason (I’m guessing clumsy PR)… It’s actually ridiculous enough to be funny, particularly because you just know that Tim would be completely mortified by the idea. Only useful if you want to build up your O’Reilly DNA repository, I would guess.
Category: Links
- Foamee is a fun, and beautiful, little site by Dan Cederholm built off the back of Twitter It’s lovely. Simple and silly, but lovely. Yum yum. I hope I get to work with Dan someday.
- I really like the idea of the Holocene Calendar. I like the idea of having all of human civilisation in one timeframe. Being able to know that everything that we know that humans have done around us fits within a few thousand years is pretty extraordinary.
- What PC talks a little about Fire Eagle. Interesting response… I think the thing I hear most from people are anxieties about their privacy. It’s a reasonable anxiety and the one that we’re most focused on alleviating with sensible precautions.
- Chris Anderson’s brilliant piece on PR people getting blocked from his blog I imagine he has to deal with at a whole other level of stuff to me. PR people are sending unsolicited commercial e-mails. It is spam! And they’re trying to commandeer the conversation. It may be inevitable, but it’s also repulsive!
- Nice Splashcast interview by Chris Valance of Cory Doctorow on whether ISPs should be responsible for identifying copyrighted works that go through their servers Good, solid bits of argument in there. Cory speaks extremely well on these matters, clearly and without umming or ahhing. Unlike myself!
- Lovely Robot Overlord t-shirt by Tony Aguero on Threadless Beautiful and awesome. Unfortunately it’s not on the really nice t-shirts so I’m not so sure I want to buy it. Grr.
- Simon Batistoni’s guide to relocating to the US is proving invaluable to me at the moment It’s all bloody terrifying, and quite badly timed. A fair few sleepless nights at the moment.
- Part two of Simon’s relocation blog posts. This one seems–if anything–even more terrifying than the last one… I’ve probably got less than a month in the UK now. This is basically the first time I’ve written about it on my site. Hum. Probably makes it real then.
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web One of my favourite books applied to the web by Richard Rutter and Steve Marshall. I feel like I ought to help them out in some way, it’s such a good idea.
- Fascinating move by Electronic Arts to say that they’d be interested in standards being adopted for gaming platforms I wonder if someone would always try to get a run on the next generation of technology by creating something future-facing. Could be all commodity stuff in the end – buy a new console because existing games look better on it?
- Interesting post on URLs over on jerakeen.org, which I think misses the point a bit It’s easier if you think of URLs in two types – either referring to a specific first order data object (in which case it doesn’t need much nesting) and then lists, where the cuts and stuff make much more sense. Calcify the common paths, leave the rest.
- JK Rowling says Dumbledore was gay, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I’ve seen too many gay characters recently in films and theatre and TV that are filthy old stereotypes for an audience to find amusing, like pets… I saw Stardust yesterday and loved it. But I hated that the gay character in it was obsessed with women’s clothes and dancing around. I saw Spamalot and I loved it. I just hated that the weak girly man was gay, and the butch gay man liked disco… Idiots.
- Loving the ratings joke on the Radiohead “In Rainbows” review on Pitchfork Media Just in case you wondered, the actual rating is 9.3 which is pretty good…
- Kevin Rose on cover of new Captain America comic? Certainly there’s a figure wearing a Diggnation T-shirt. Some evidence, at least, that what happens on the net doesn’t stay on the net, even if it may be popular with our nerdy selves…
- Screw Getting Things Done, my brains’ completely plotzing over “Consider it Done” It’s like a PA service for tedious or bureaucratic life-management jobs like sorting out your expenses, finding all the documentation for your tax return, paying bills. Good bit is you only employ them for a few hours a week.
- ITunes Plus appears to be dropping its price around the world to be inline with normal iTunes songs Difficult to know why anyone would buy the other ones really. To be honest, it’s probably easier for them to just get rid of the Fairplay versions completely.