Dive into the archives.
- Online on form
This is a little incestuous, and worthy of the OBN, but forgive me: I loved working on the Guardian’s Online section, but one of the positives of having moved to Guardian Unlimited last year is that I got to go back to being a reader of the long-running tech section, just as I was until [...]
- Cool things
Two things that make me happy: first, the Sophisticated Pizza Cost Analysis Tool Deluxe Gold Edition Studio Pro, or SPCATDGESP - 1.0 - a tool that works out if it’s more or less cost effective to order a medium-sized pizza instead of a large pizza (the great debate being: are medium pizzas really a rip-off?). [...]
- Tales of the underworld
A delightful piece about London’s sewers in today’s G, written by Blake Morrison. And I mean “delightful” as in a really well written piece, as opposed to a euphemistic delightful. Here’s a sample…
“Beyond the overflow point, the water slows, and the bottom of the sewer becomes sludgier - this wouldn’t be the place to lose [...]
- Farewell to the phone books
Phone books have always fascinated me. When I was small I used to enjoy leafing through the pages at the start, eyeing all the remarkable places one could call with the correct dialling code (my parents doubtless thought this was a step up from my previous habit, as a three year-old, of randomly dialling four [...]
- Google news sources revealed (but not by Google)
How interesting. Since Google refuses to say which news sources power its Google News service, a blogger is scraping a list of all the sources Google News gets its stuff from - ordered by name of source, and also by frequency.
Meanwhile, bowing to pressure from bloggers, Google has removed two sources of hate speech - [...]
- Blogs in action
I was speaking at SixApart and Nokia’s Blogs in Action doo last night, and it was great fun - a few familiar faces including Jane and Bobbie from the Guardian, and plenty of new faces too, not least some newspaper folk not from the Guardian, some ad sales people from both publisher and client sides, [...]
- The truth about Google News
In the spirit of dangerous Simon Waldman’s brave contention that - actually - Wikinews isn’t really very good, I think it’s time we started sticking pins in (if not quite slaughtering, yet) another FutureNews sacred cow.
Google News kinda sucks, too.
There. Said it, in a mixed audience. I’ve already volunteered this view in closed, safe environments [...]
- Ten technologies to blow your 1995 mind
Yesterday I mentioned that all this fuss about Yahoo and Flickr would, simply, have been unintelligible to someone ten years ago. And it got me thinking - what other techy/new media-esque things that we take for granted today would have seemed impossible to someone locked up in solitary these last ten years?
Let’s go back. Ten [...]
- AOL’s new direction, and mobile content
Although Yahoo! gets all the buzz today, Mike Butcher’s piece over at Netimperative about AOL’s new direction is still all very interesting. AOL is starting to face the kind of squeeze that has, until now, seemed both inevitable and oddly absent: with a world of content out there, why would users bother paying a premium [...]
- More Flickr buzz
There’s been plenty of talk overnight on that Yahoo!/Flickr deal (and there’s a phrase that would have had us screwing our faces up in confusion only ten years ago). Three bits of commentary have caught the eye so far - I’ll add more here as it crops up…
First, over at Flickr itself, this post explaining [...]
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