Four Things
I hate weblog memes as much as I love making lists and talking about myself. So here goes… Four jobs I’ve had: Freelance music journalist. Freelance art journalist. Freelance technology journalist....
View ArticleWikipedia Contrail
Here’s my Wikipedia contrail—the pages that autocomplete when I type “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser—an experiment suggested by Matt Webb. Scratch Orchestra Poutine Deep Fried Mars Bar Peter...
View ArticleOpenID
OpenID is ‘an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity’. That doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but it has the potential to change the way we all use websites, particularly...
View ArticleNew Improved OpenID
OpenID is getting simple and safer to use by the day. Last week MyOpenID added a pair of new features to combat ‘phishing’. That’s the trick familiar from those shady emails purporting to be from your...
View ArticlePointless Twitter Automation
Here’s a little thing that will update Twitter when you wake up your computer. Save the following in a text file somewhere (I put it in /bin/ and called it twitterwakeup.sh), replacing the stuff in...
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Elitist CAPTCHA
I tried to sign up for correlate.us today, a rather nice-looking service that creates a ‘river’ of information from RSS feeds provided by the likes of Flickr, Last.fm and Twitter, so folk can view all...
View ArticleTurkish Journey
I’ve been following Ben Hammersly’s Turkish Journey with great interest. Hammersly is reporting on the run up to Turkey’s general election in July for the BBC, but rather than just filing copy for the...
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We Tell Stories
The first installment of Penguin’s We Tell Stories series launched yesterday. It’s a pacy short story by Charles Cumming that unfolds through a Google Maps interface: As well as being six stories by...
View ArticleThrough The Looking Glass
More on the We Tell Stories fiction series and Alternate Reality Game follows shortly, but I got a bit distracted from my reading and sleuthing when I found this post by ‘nara’ on the Unfiction Forums,...
View ArticleUbiquity
I’ve long been a fan of Quicksilver, and my favourite feature on the Newton is the Assist button. The former lets me find things on my computer, and do stuff with those things at breakneck speed. The...
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