Sunday, May 31st, 2009
The House That Tweets
One of the nice things about appearing on Digital Planet is that we get to talk to cool people doing interesting things… like this
http://bit.ly/2M0AWc
More on the topic on next week’s show.
(thanks, Michelle!)
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 5th through July 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 5th and July 7th:
Slashdot | The Internationalization of Malware – Nice attempt to take a multicultural view of malware
Why Identi.ca needs to look further afield than open source. Strange Attractor – excellent analysis from Suw, as usual.
Wendy?s Blog: Legal Tags » Privacy Falls into YouTube?s Data Tar [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Changing the Way We Think
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has picked up on it]
In her recently published book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, Professor Susan Greenfield brings her considerable expertise as a neuroscientist to bear on the question of whether and how our current use of [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The bustle of participation
I’m one of the bloggers over at the New Statesman New Media Awards blog. Latest entry considers what Sam Johnson might have made of Twitter…
I’ve been up for an hour. In that time I’ve updated my Facebook status and dismissed various invitations to become a Zombie or share virtual fish or garden plants, sent a [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Asking Shia
As part of the Seesmic Indiana Jones fest this morning we got to put a question to Shia Laboeuf, one of the stars of the film in Cannes for all the promotion.
Here’s the question (the sound quality is poor – sorry)
And here’s what he said in response
(embedding the video is messing up my page layout, [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Steven Spielberg interviewed on Seesmic
Steven Spielberg interviewed on Seesmic
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Gia and Sizemore are in Cannes interviewing cast and crew of Indiana Jones on Seesmic and posting to the timeline as live as they can – George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and the man. It’s a fascinating experiment in community interaction, with a lot of Twitter [...]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Twitter is the Higgs Boson of the Internet
The Higgs field is what gives particles their mass. Go into orbit and try to push a 1 tonne satellite – you can’t. It weighs nothing but its mass is unchanged by being in free fall or even in deep space, and so the force needed to change its momentum is still too great for [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
@bbccouk Finished my column and going to make coffee…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
Unlike many of my friends and colleagues I wasn’t able to make it to Austin, Texas for this year’s SXSW interactive, the four day technology conference and festival that is currently firing the imagination of the technology world.
So I wasn’t in the ballroom when the [...]
