A couple of weeks back, I got my invitation to join the alpha test of measuremap. This was exciting, because I’d seen Jeff Veen give us a little preview talk about it at we05. It looked very nice then, so I was keen to get into it. It is the nature of statistics tools that …
Category Archives: tech
errata…
I admit it, I was wrong. Some time ago when I first ‘discovered’ social tagging I weighed up the pros and cons of the offerings. Well, there were really only two choices at the time – Connotea was far too highbrow for me – so, was I going to Furl or Del.icio.us?
flock to this…
Sorry, inexcusable pun – I would never make a sub-editor! On the other hand, if you like new toys, you should take a look at flock, a new mozilla based browser, with active hooks for posting to blogs (I’m writing this entry from within the browser) and sharing bookmarks. It integrates with delicious for bookmark …
WE05
I suppose I’d better give into it… everyone else has blogged about WEo5, so I’d better do my bit. Not that it’s a chore at all – quite the opposite – this was the most informative and inspirational conference I have been to in years. No, the problems are: 1. where to start, and 2. …
that was a hot topic
I was there! at WE05 when Tantek Çelic had just finished his session and was about to take his first question… the fire alarm started! Here we are piling out onto Harris Street, Ultimo in front of UTS, and yes, that’s me in the yellow sleeved t-shirt next to the tree. Told you I was …
I have seen the future…
and it is full screen, full motion and it should scare the bejeezus out of the traditional television broadcasters. An organisation with a solid background in peer to peer networking, participatory culture have just released a beta of a product they call DTV. This is internet television. At the moment it is only available for …
Nikon’s encryption bungle…
I was amazed by recent reports about Nikon encrypting the raw files in their high-end digital cameras… what were they thinking? The glare of publicity has been aimed at this story since Thomas Knoll, the ‘creator’ of Photoshop attacked Nikon for the practice, which appears to impose some ownership by Nikon over a photographer’s creative …
the social bookmarking experiment…
I’ve recently joined the wave of web users to try online bookmark tools – specifically del.icio.us – known as a ‘social bookmarking’ tool. Del.icio.us is simple and, for what it does, it works very well. The social aspect is the real revelation though. You bookmark a page and see that others have also bookmarked it, …
Send a link from Safari
I love Apple’s Safari browser. There is a level of polish not even available in the wonderful Firefox, however, I’ll admit it’s sometimes a little short on functionality. One that annoys me is the lack of a quick ‘send link’ function to email a URL to someone. All fixed now! Drag my ‘mail this‘ link …