Archive for May, 2006
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
From Vox Pop to Vox Pod…
I’m currently making plans for an exciting project, producing a daily podcast for the Cambridge Film Festival, which takes place from July 6-16th this year and will be packed with great films.
We’re going to be interviewing members of the audience as they queue to go into each show, and since it’s always a good idea [...]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The Library Shelf or the Link?
As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website. It’s already attracted comment from Steven Johnson and Nicholas Carr…]
One of those rumbling arguments that betrays a deeper discontent is going on within the loose collection of blogs, newspapers and academic websites that has replaced public lectures and university common rooms as the space [...]
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
All screens are equal…
But are some more equal than others?
Over three million people have watched episodes of “Lost,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Alias” and “Commander-in-Chief” on their computers since US television network ABC launched the service at the start of May.
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Open source in India
[As usual, you can also read this on BBC News online]
The five of us bounced out of the restaurant at around ten, after a great meal, some beers and the usual arguments about preferred programming languages, the future of free and open source software and the merits of Terry Pratchett’s later works.
It was a warm [...]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
I’m in Delhi – do I need new socks?
Delhi: do I need new socks?
Originally uploaded by BillT.
One of the more unexpected things I found on my first trip to the sub-continent… thanks to Lisa for taking the pic.
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Delhi observations
Drawing crowds in the Old City
Monday was not quite the hottest day in Delhi so far, but 44 degrees Celsius made it the hottest May 8th for five years and, if the CNN weather maps are to be believed, made Delhi one of the hottest places on earth.
This may in part explain why, when Julian, [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
My first time in India
It’s seventeen degrees Celsius in my hotel room on the sixth floor of Shangri-La Hotel in New Delhi. The room is just starting to get warmer as I’ve turned off the air-conditioning, but it’s unlikely to approach the searing temperatures on the road outside, where yesterday’s peak of 44.5 was the highest in the city [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Nehru Place, Delhi
Delhi, May 2006
Originally uploaded by BillT.
If you need some hardware, this is the place to go…
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Meeting the Delhi Bloggers
I’m in Delhi, working on some programmes for Digital Planet, and I’ll write more about my first time in India later. But on saturday evening, seven hours after my plane touched down, I was lucky enough to be able to go along to a meeting of the Delhi Bloggers.
It was their eleventh meeting in the [...]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Quasi-socialising with Will
My good friend and long-time colleague Will Davies, originally at The Work Foundation and more recently at ippr, is inteviewed by John Sutherland in today’s Guardian, talking about the dangers of putting our faith so completely in technologies whose current primary purpose is to make the world ever more “flexible to the whims of consumers [...]
