- 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.
Category: Random
- 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.
- Are you angry that the threat of terrorism has been used to sanction human rights abuses in our own countries? Then visit the Amnesty International ‘Unsubscribe Me’ campaign It feels a bit like you’re just saying ‘not in my name’, but that’s a start right? Saying that you don’t want to be complicit with this activity – that you abhor it?
- Google are acquiring Jaiku and with it, presumably, the lovely Jyri and Ulla Well done guys! I’m assuming this has something to do with the fabled GPhone?
- Serious Eats posts on the wonderful Stichelton cheese available from Neal’s Yard Diary You can get it at Borough Market too. I’ve persuaded the chocolate shop chaps to explore putting it in a chocolate!
- Mr Hicks has proposed a nice informal cover design contest for the Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ digital download Not a lot of transformative insights yet, but quite like the idea and would be delighted if someone came up with something dramatically better than the finished official version…
- Has anyone got any idea of how many people are actually using the iPlayer? First talked about in 2003, supposed to be publically launched to everyone a really long time ago, and still–frankly–quite a bad idea, particularly in the context of Joost, is there anyone out there who’s actually using it?
- Ce Matin Un Lapin, rediscovered… The old URL stopped working. To alleviate your anxieties about the lamentable shortage of rabbits with guns, I have posted the new URL.
- Kevin Kelly’s review of Scan Caf√© is interesting for those of us who have considered bringing all our old photos into the 21st Century… I think I’ll give them a go once I’ve finally made the move to the US.
- I got interviewed (briefly) about my petition to get market research organisations to have to abide by the Telephone Preference Service… Not a particularly high profile story, but if it gets it in front of the people who are undertaking these things maybe it’ll start to influence them a little. You can still sign the petition if you want. There’s a link further down…
- If you have an e-mail address from any of these 100 companies you can get yourself a Dopplr invitation straightaway… Very classy idea, oh Dopplr central. I’ll be circulating this around Yahoo straight away…
- Really enjoying playing with ffffound. It’s sort of like del.icio.us divided by Flickr only with no tags and more designers. Fascinating.
- A Petition to require polling organisations to abide by the preferences of citizens who have opted out of cold-calling via the Telephone Preference Service… Feel free to promote and link to as you see fit.
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- GigaOm’s fascinating diagram of industry share of smartphones fascinates me for a few reasons It’s easy if you’re in the UK to assume that all the early adopters are using Nokia phones. Obviously that’s challenged by the iPhone, but the different in take-up between Europe and the US is extraordinary.