June 2009
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Jun 10th
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“in its totality, Twitter operates a lot like a wiki: as a knowledge-sharing,...”
– Mark Drapeaul, in Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform on O’Reilly Radar.
Jun 10th
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Twittering Everything
I always thought that one of Jaiku’s big mistakes is that it did too many things. In trying to be a repository of presence, it managed to build everything Twitter has, but submerge it in a pile of other features, such as conversation and aggregation. By contrast, Twitter always did one thing, and arguably, for significant chunks of the time it’s been around, it’s not even done...
Jun 10th
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“We were told that the fabric shop on Mare Street is named after a former nearby...”
– This sounds all too plausible. From minority report: a wander around Hackney.
Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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“I have meant to use Galambosianism as an example of the dangers of too much IP...”
– Danny O’Brien on my much more shameful, and unfortunately less secret, secret shame - being a libertarian. This sentence is wonderful.
Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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WatchWatch
Network Rail’s advert promoting the newly-upgraded West Coast Main Line, as seen in the Guardian. The control room 15 seconds in and the views of Manchester Piccadilly shortly after that are very nice.
Jun 8th
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“That telly is old, but it basically completely works, and I feel immensely smug...”
– David Mitchell, interviewed in the Guardian.
Jun 8th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
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The Telegraph and "Great Journalism"
Sigh. “Collaborative investigative journalism… feels good because it’s messy,” said Loosemore, “and could work better than the old models.” Oh, yeah? I’d like to see a “messy” collective of Kool-Aid slurping Wikipedians conduct the sort of rigorous analysis necessary for the Telegraph’s recent MPs’ expenses investigation. Can you imagine social media achieving anything like it? Of course you...
Jun 4th
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Flight Control 1.2
When I arrived in work this morning, Adrian told me there was a new version of Flight Control out. I’d already seen that there were new maps coming, but the game tightens the experience for veteran players nicely. (If you’re not an iPhone owner, or just haven’t played it, Flight Control (iTunes Store link) is a game requiring you to draw flight paths for a series of incoming...
Jun 3rd
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Jun 3rd
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New bookmarklet!
Thanks, Tumblr, for the new bookmarklet, now with an “Advanced” tab that lets you set a custom post URL. The fact you couldn’t before always bugged me, but it’s all better now. Hurrah! [Edit] I’m so on the ball I posted about this (just) before staff did. They don’t even mention the custom post URL stuff, but that’s the best bit!
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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