For the young 'uns among you, when Twitter started up it had an IM mode – you could add twitter to your buddy list and all the tweets from people you followed ticked away in a chat window and when you wanted to tweet, you just said something but of course you had to remember…
I'm having repeated problems uploading to Flickr from my phone – above is a recent "result". I'm just noting it here in case anyone else has seen a similar effect. I think that it's a combination of uploading from my HTC Desire S to Flickr via the Tedious-Admin-G network at C4CC but I need to…
I've been following Dave Winer's work on his outliner, the OPML Editor for sometime now, just reading what he says on his blog about it, getting interested, but never really getting involved because it only runs on Windows or Mac and I have neither at the moment. For me outlining is a great way of…
OK, so my head is full of cold but I thought I could wander out into Twitter and ask something that was puzzling me, but it seems I might have asked it at the wrong time or the wrong place. I got back answers that made me think people didn't understand the question. So there's…
I went along to #brewcamp last night in Walsall. It was lovely, I got to hear about the amazing open spaces and wildlife in and around Walsall from Morgan Bowers and Mark Blackstock's story of growing a local aggregator which confirming that people come back to places that send them away. As this was a local government…
I'm unfixing my abode and going up to Birmingham and its environs for a few days, I have some potential for retreat in Oxfordshire later in the month and I'm cat-sitting in Wood Green in a couple of weeks (oh the glamour!) but otherwise freewheeling. I'm always up for chats, tea, coffee, idling etc. I…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8YbLvGrb0?wmode=transparent] This. Over and over and over. Knowing that I would be a grown-up in the 21st Century was very exciting. The jury's still out on how exciting it actually is. However I think if it's more exciting it's going to be for different reasons than I'd thought. I doubt that we're going to…
"This emergent thing you're part of is really great, how did you do it?" "Well, we just show up every day and let it emerge, encourage things we like, let things we don't like just die away." "So how can I help you keep doing the same thing but design some elements to make it…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSOzA05q3I?wmode=transparent] This is the sort of scene that made me want to be able to sing well. I loved to hear guys like Allan Jones who made this big voice while singing soft songs – the link is that he got started in a couple of Marx brothers films, much of my childhood Sunday…
http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2khYJZKwA Do you remember your first ROFL? yeah, me too, it was this. Hysterical. I'm giggling even now and I haven't watched it for two or three days. These guys gave me a love of punnage and clever use of language. Also a deep suspicion of lawyers and anyone who wants you to…