As I mentioned on a previous post, I smuggled my PC on holiday and had a go at learning Ruby on Rails. I’m not going to spend much time talking about what I think. Needless to say, I had fun starting from knowledge = nil and gently climbing up the learning curve towards knowledge =… [Read more…]
July 27, 2007
The Tate launched their BT Tate Player (no disguising the sponsorship there, then) a week ago. I have to say, I’m disappointed. When I first heard that they were going to be doing this I got really excited about the potential, but the finally-launched-product is pretty much a nothingness. Not to say that the content… [Read more…]
July 26, 2007
Emre Sokullu wrote a great post a few weeks ago on Read/Write web entitled Pivots of the Web where he overviews the stages in development of the internet as we know it today. Interestingly there’s no mention of mobile anywhere in his diagram, although I guess as a channel rather than a “pivot” he may… [Read more…]
July 24, 2007
I’m a big fan of the diagram. Anyone who has worked with me knows I tend to put ideas down as organograms, mind-maps and other scribbles: I’m pretty bad at understanding concepts unless I can sketch them. Visual cues, linkages, the ability to promote ideas, connect them together – all of these seem incredibly valuable… [Read more…]
July 23, 2007
I’ve been planning a “what TV means on the internet” post for a while, a big part of which was going to be a comparison of what’s available right now. Browsing through my vast backlog of stuff to catch up on after my holiday, I found this great roundup of UK-available “tv on web” services.… [Read more…]
July 6, 2007
I’m off on holiday tomorrow. Just, er, popping down to the country retreat for a couple of weeks, dahling… Only thing is, the place hasn’t got broadband – in fact it’s got little tech at all (no TV – hurrah!) (no mobile coverage – double hurrah!), which is in many ways a complete relief. In… [Read more…]
July 6, 2007
I just had a bit of a shock. I’m an avid reader of TechCrunch – I like the topic matter, the bitchiness of Michael Arrington, the writing style, the fact that it’s a superb place for finding out about tech stuff. But for about as long as I’ve read it, I’ve subscribed to their RSS… [Read more…]
July 3, 2007
In my previous post about the “museum directory” I built at UK Museums on the Web mashup day, I mentioned a museum address CSV file from the 24hr Museum which I planned to put use at a later date. The original source I had contained *really* dodgy data and only about 380 institutions – I’d… [Read more…]
July 2, 2007
A long and interesting thread broke out on the Museums Computer Group mailing list today about how museums could use Facebook to their best advantage. As I said on the thread – although the question about how Facebook deals with organisations vs individuals is interesting, the key question to me is what we’re trying to… [Read more…]
July 1, 2007
Brian Kelly asked me to do a guest post on his UK Web Focus blog. You can read the post – “Go forth and mash” here.
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