Once upon a time last October, Robert Sharl wrote a blog entry in which, quoting Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, the way you do, he talked about the breaking down of the differences between the roles of producers and consumers.
Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.
I followed my own advice and decided that Clipmarks would be most useful to me at the moment as a way of grabbing short facts (statistics, quotes, predictions, announcements) that I might want to remember later.
I have now got a framework for this site up and running. The logic traps appear to be sorted out. Wikkawiki is working well.
James sent me a Tweet the other day and I finally got round to checking out the link. It led to Fox @ Fury, an interesting blog (by the owner of fury.com) that I added to my Bloglines feeds. However James wasn’t just linking to the blog in general. He was linking to a post about Jesse Schell’s talk at DICE 2010 called Design Outside The Box.
Harold Jarche posted a short but interesting piece yesterday entitled The Future of Learning is DIY.
GMail, and the work of Jeff Raskin, both point towards a user interface that differs radically from the desktop that we have beome used to. Raskin even had a term fo it: the humane computer environment.
Some preliminary thoughts on combining the functionality of blogs and wikis, that attempts to look the question “why would you do it?” in the eyes without blinking.
Today the Guardian online has pointed out Justin Kan has strapped a video camera to his head and is broadcasting the results twenty four hours a day.
Access appear to be making genuine progress with the next-generation Palm OS, which reminded me that Jeff Hawkins has a secret third business. Or not.
Yesterday Lego revealed some more about their long-delayed multiplayer online world. It is now promised to launch “sometime in 2010″. What’s more, they have released a series of screenshots, and a very impressive trailer, so there are reasons to believe that it will actually launch this year.
The LEGO Group today announced it has commenced a working relationship with NetDevil to develop a massively multiplayer online gaming experience to further engage its dedicated and active community.
According to an article on Yahoo News, taken from Reuters, this morning
Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is as tiny as cellphone screens, a new study showed on Monday, even though
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In 2008 I decided to take a photograph every day of the year. This became a project called One Place At A Time. Last year I didn’t do this, and half way through the year I regretted it. The 2008 project had been a neat way of keeping a photographic diary, even though that had not been its original intention. I therefore decided to do just that for the entire next decade.
News travels slow round these parts. I have only just found out that there was an Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco last year.
Eeva Melvasalo sent me a list of online resources about blikis, including definitions, discussions and examples.
In August 2005, Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot and the Treo smartphone, claimed that Palm had a “secret third business”. Since then he has single-handedly redefined neuroscience through some personal research that culminated in a book On Information and the founding of a new company Numenta. Now he has given an interview to PalmAddicts, in which he ties these together, and promises a big announcement sometime this year.
Google is free and so Google is wonderful. Camie and I have began using Writely a year or so ago, and it worked very well indeed. We could both access each other’s files, and we could both work on the same report at the same time. Oddly, the idea of the memi militates against this in a subtle manner.
This site promises the impossible, since there is no way that they can remove material from the Internet Archive, to people who don’t know any better. In its tone, and its appeal to the clueless, it reminds me of government anti-drug propaganda from the nineteen fifties.
The question about how notions of privacy can be maintained, in what some are calling a “surveillance culture” and others (including me) are not, is both interesting and complex. It has permeated some of the discussions on the ePedagogy course, and indeed Christina and others are currently working on a project that looks at this topic.
The Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, is planning to launch a transatlantic airline offering fares to the US from as little as $12 (£6.10), it emerged today.
My decision the other day to investigate the applicability of software as a service for the memi project has had some interesting preliminary results. Zoho, Omnidrive, and Adobe Remix are just some of them…
The Scratchware Manifesto was began during the summer months of 2000. Written in collaboration, and inspired somewhat by the Cyberpunk Manifesto, it is meant to be a living organ; a message in a bottle; a battle cry. Here it is in its entirety.
Skinkers is the technological break-through of the week, or not. A pertinent question is whether streaming tv on mobile devices is merely supplier-driven, or whether there is an actual demand for it.
Cory Ondrejka (who is Cory Linden in Second Life) posted a series of predictions for 2007 to Terra Nova. I have extracted some of them here.
Will Wright is the man who invented Sim City and then went onto make numerous variations and elaborations of that, culminating in Sims, Sims 2 and Sims Online. He has given a lengthy and detailed interview to the Popular Science web site about his new game Spore, which he describes as a “massively single player online game”.
I have just added the structured blogging plug-in to this site. It is available from StructuredBlogging and I am in two minds about it, even before I have used it. The idea is impeccable and important, but it feels as though the crew may be preparing to abandon ship.
On Sunday evening I got my first chance to look inside the Structured Blogging plug-in, and so I started to poke around. In this kind of situation my technique is usually task-based. In this case the process was made easy because there were at least three features that I really did want to change from the moment I installed the plug-in.
Having spent some time evaluating the Structured Blogging plug-in, and discussing it at length with students, I have become less and less certain that what it offers is worth the price. At first sight the ideas behind it, and its implementation, are impressive and thought-provoking. The fact, however, is that in fifteen months the plug-in has signally failed to set the world on fire.
Daniel Livingstone posted to the Second Life Educational Mailing List about a snippet he had found concerning the legendary inventor of hypertext himself.
Earlier this morning I added an opening screen to this site, and in order to do this I needed to find out the date on which I died.
Some interesting figures about the relative costs of broadcasting conventionally as opposed to the costs of streaming via YouTube.
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some rash predictions about life in 2020.
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some more rash predictions about life in 2020.
Last year I remember reading something about somebody backing up the entire internet a few months ago, but I noted in passing and then promptly forgot about it. This morning I found another reference to it, and followed it to archive.org where the Wayback Machine does indeed give you access to the past of the internet.
Tim O’Reilly talks to Wired magazine, just before the Web 2.0 Expo.
Jane McGonigal gave a keynote speech titled “The future of collective play: Fostering collaboration, network literacy and massively multiplayer problem-solving through alternate-reality games,” at the Serious Games Summit of the Game Developers Conference yesterday.
A virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft. Although limited to only a few of the game’s servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.
Virtual Worlds 2007 is a conference in New York at the end of March that is billed as the future of marketing and media. The keynotes speakers are from MTV, IBM and Nickelodeon.
29.
trickle down theory
watch the high street closing down
the past behind us
30.
everything must go
past imperfect present tense
future uncertain
31.
home made gloves and shoes
we walk to the allotment
a happy ending
