Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Games san frontieres
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
Back in February early adopters of the Spotify music-streaming service found that they could no longer listen to every song in the catalogue. The popular startup had been forced to limit access some songs and artists by country because the licensing deals struck with the record [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Getting Under the Bonnet
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website, though note that I *don't* think we should be a nation of programmers - the question mark is there for a reason!]
I’ve had my own website for fifteen years now, running on a wide variety of different computers. I started off with some space on [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
#amazonfail FTW!
[Update: You can read this on the BBC News website, as usual. And the talented Craig Seymour - who was amused to have his many achievements summed up as 'former gay stripper' - has an interesting and pretty straightforward suggestion for how Amazon could resolve the issue of 'adult' content on his blog.
Further news: Nick [...]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
New fun and new names
If you’ve nothing else to do over the Easter break – well, it’s a break here in the UK – then can I suggest checking out some things I’m currently involved with:
The Songs of Imagination and Digitisation project, at http://www.songsofimaginationanddigitisation.net/, where I’m helping manage work to build an illuminated book for the digital age, to [...]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Dreamers of the Network World
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
Last Saturday morning I woke up and reached for my phone so that I could spend five minutes catching up on email, Facebook and of course overnight updates on Twitter before I got up to make some coffee and start the day.
Radio 4 is the best [...]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Pavement computing
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Originally uploaded by BillT.
Spotted on St Peter’s Street, Princes Street (on the corner with Elm Hill) Norwich, on my last visit to the New Writing Partnership office.
[Update: I got ithe street wrong - foolishness of not geotagging pix as soon as they are taken. thanks to my commenter for the correction]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Connecting Clouds
[As ever, this can also be read on the BBC News website]
History is littered with manifestos, the public statements of principles and intentions that announce policies, revolutions or ambitious visions in politics and the arts.
Every political party produces one in advance of an election, and significant manifestos from history include the Communist Manifesto of 1848, [...]
