May 2010
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“I’m almost 30 and have a fear of clowns, no idea why… But I’m...”
– Sharon from London, quoted on a BBC News Magazine story, Why are clowns scary? I shouldn’t laugh, but maybe it’d be better if Sharon found somewhere else to live. (indirectly: via, via, via)
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“Mobile video calling is an awful, expensive feature that nobody ever uses, but...”
– Chris Clarke gets it right.
May 31st
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“So, the BBC should never have run with the story since it was sensationalist...”
– John Graham-Cumming: Inside the RFID ‘virus’ that ‘infected a man’ (via iamdanw). I don’t know if anyone else has noted that Dr Gasson is a colleague of, and co-author of papers with, Kevin Warwick. For those of you a bit younger than I am, Professor Warwick got an awful lot of publicity...
May 28th
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May 25th
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“In Finland it is possible to alter the boundaries of shame with alcohol. Someone...”
– Jaana Mirjam Mustavuori, in Finns and the culture of shame in Helsingin Sanomat’s International Edition (via).
May 22nd
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“Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of...”
– Bill Bryson, in A Short History of Nearly Everything (via mappeal).
May 20th
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“Clocks from the old London Stock Exchange on Threadneedle Street are on show at...”
– Richard Vines, in his London Food Buzz column for Bloomberg. (Ta Chris.)
May 20th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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“One of the library’s maps is a really interesting rendering of London that...”
– Peter Barber, head of map collections at the British Library, quoted in Maps - the new rock’n’roll in the Telegraph.
May 16th
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“ex-KLF rock star Bill Drummond […] describes OS maps as “the most...”
– Mike Parker, in Mad about maps, in the Telegraph (promoting the British Library’s Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art exhibition).
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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“Trying to weld together twelve local authority and private operators into one...”
– An opinion post on London Reconnections: In The Quest for Rear-Entrance, Is The True Routemaster Legacy Being Lost? (ta teflon)
May 11th
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“Normal people use the internet now, and they can DESTROY YOU.”
– Tom Insam: So, I got bored and started to Google my name…
May 10th
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A First Look At Annotations
A couple of hours after I gave my talk about Flickr machine tags and their possible lessons for Twitter’s new annotations, Raffi Krikorian gave a talk at Warblecamp on that very subject. He’s now posted slides of the talk, which are well worth a look. In them, he expands on the format for annotations (they consist of types, attributes and values; types can be repeated, but attributes...
May 8th
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Annotations and Machines Tags
I’m at Warblecamp (unsurprisingly, they also have a Twitter account), where I gave a short talk about Flickr’s machine tags and possible lessons for Twitter’s upcoming annotations feature. You can download the slides (6MB PDF), but they’re very much from the “big word / big picture” school, so feel free not to bother. The idea was to breeze through...
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a...”
– xkcd, in Sex and Gender
May 7th
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May 1st
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