December 2007
55 posts
Scratch conference →
Along the Dystopia Line 1: I am your density →
Along the Dystopia Line 0: Backgrounder →
Adam’s starting a chain of essays on urban dystopia that sound right up my street (pun intended)
Are dead-tree magazines good or bad for the... →
“by this analysis dead-tree magazines have a smaller net carbon footprint than web media”
the multiple spaces of Manhattan →
Five Short Video Game Industry Keynotes (Magical... →
As Ben Hammersley said - applicable for any media industry conference.
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007,... →
Epic Webb. Webb epic. Glad he’s again writing the stuff I usually get to hear in the pub.
external hard disk treemap →
Beautiful Beolit →
“Inside the front shell, there is a little envelope. Inside the envelope there is a piece of folded paper. Screen printed on the paper are all the instructions for repairing the radio. The radio contains its own data sheet, physically!” Oh my.
nytimes political debates visualization →
I like this as a visualisation to be pored-over rather than glanced-at.
book up look sharp →
The new BBC homepage →
the breakfast blog: Melbourne's Top 10 Breakfasts →
A blog guide to Melbourne's coffee shops | Travel... →
Squandrous | Dopplr is live →
“…this web application is perhaps my favorite app on the web these days. Itâs not just the fact that Iâm a heavy traveler and get a lot of usage from the service; itâs also the fact that Dopplrâs design and interface should be a model for excell
Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea →
Accidental Visual Resonance →
“some […] visualisations remind me of the movie War Games. I love the movie, but I continue to think that certain kinds of accidental visual resonance should be avoided. The âincomingâ visualisations by the good people at Dopplr have this problem to
FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch... →
âOur notions of beauty, yes, but these are notions that change all the time. There should be a third book: On Charm. Charm is something else â it can depend on a glance, on the way you move a finger.” via Todd Wood
Matt McAlister » Blog Archive » The Internet’s... →
MJW-top →
‘This is the most accurate wristwatch you can buy - the hour hand reads “remember”, the minute hand “you will die”.’
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa 'to support UK... →
Dopplr launches publicly at Le Web →
“even if you don’t travel, it’s worth signing up just to experience all the brilliant UI touches ” - Whoa. Thanks!
geeKyoto » I’m going to geekGreen are you? →
WEIZENBAUM. REBEL AT WORK. About the film. →
The History of Play and Leisure (Syllabus) →
Mission Bicycles | Mission Bicycle →
NESTA on place and innovation →
Frustrating. Been trying to get in touch with NESTA (against better judgement - many people I know have been burned by them) to no avail. They seem to like to publish but not act.
Dick on Kipple →
Dopplr launches at LeWeb3 →
NTT DoCoMo creates kid-friendly handset and... →
Things I heard from America as it prepared to... →
[this is aaronland] “Aware of only one voice from... →
“If we can’t ever figure out who is on first we can at least litter the Intercloud with little fortune cookies made of magic words.” I love Aaron.
[this is aaronland] Things I Am Not Talking About →
“Could you please push the abstract a bit? We’re after pithy, straightforward, and, clear about who you’d like to engage. You should be as technical as you want the paper to be (about APIs for example)” hah.
My city is my tailor →
“Has one city ever copied another quite so slavishly, and with quite such an odd time delay? Has one city ever become, in this way, another’s museum?”
Links for 2007-12-11 [ma.gnolia] →
“One of my favorite social software services, Dopplr, launched to everybody today. Dopplr gets travel sharing right, with out trying to over extend.”
Flickr: A Place of Our Own - Laughing Meme →
Dopplr: Huge Success →
“Itâs wonderfully put together, with lots of tiny touches that make all the difference.” yay!
Silkscreen Under the Open Font License →
Blogging at the BBC: Part 1 - My introduction to... →
“When Matt Jones re-joined the BBC, his Blackbeltjones blog became required reading in order to actually understand what he was talking about half the time” - hah!
Dopplr launches →
getting a good review of something I was involved in from Janne is about the best accolade I could think of!
From Stockhausen to stock repertoire →
Blade Runner in a MySpace World →
“While the Replicants of Blade Runner were beholden to their makers for their memories, we today are also highly reliant for others on the construction of our self identities.”
“Running a startup is a great way to learn how to, and how not to, ignore the...”
– http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/197348338/tab_bankruptcy.html
The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Burial:... →
Burial interviewed by K-Punk! (via steven shaviro)
High entropy notions of quality →
“Modernity as a whole has been fuelled not just by cheap energy, but also by a cultural lust for speed, perfection, control.”
digitalexperience » Blog Archive » Electric eel... →
Fighting Robots » Drawn! The Illustration and... →
via bopuc
ETech = Energy + Food Hacking + Arduino +... →
The year they get away from being all web2.0 is the year I can’t afford to go… Typical!
the man behind the curtain →
Chris asks where did GMM get the cell-id/location data. We talked about this in the office yesterday and our bet is they had a phone running in the Google maps cars, collecting the data.
Squaring up for an urban overhaul - National -... →
paging Dan Hill