Dive into the archives.
- Applauding Shirky’s light touch
Clay Shirky rolled into town yesterday, giving a lunchtime lecture to a packed house down at the RSA on his new book Here Comes Everybody.
It’s about how online crowds form and act, but the title could have adequately described the packed auditorium; the gang was all there, as many techie, socialie, liberal-artsie types as you [...]
- A weekend in Barcelona, and some winning doorbells
Ben Hammersley is putting last weekend best:
"30 hours later, we found a place with a cocktail consisting of Absinthe, Bourbon, and Martini Dry. I am now quite tired."After the photographs, but before the Absinthe cocktail, there was a rowing boat and cigars. And gaggles of really smart people milling around after the Online Flash Film [...]
- The weird world of the book reading
To Foyles tonight, to see Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre talk about their new books, and the other things that authors talk about at such events. It was an interesting experience.
I know Chris - this was the first time we’d met in years, but back when he was just an extremely promising author (rather [...]
- Blog posts! In a book!
Am back from the high seas. Lots of pix on Flickr, and some new books in the reading list… all of which I’ll get around to writing about sometime, I’m sure. Really.
But first: the exciting news that Tim Worstall’s anthology of the best of the British blogosphere, 2005: Blogged is published later this week (ignore, [...]
- Quote of the day
From the President of the FIA, the organisation that runs Formula 1, in a Guardian interview:
“I had my Sunday all mapped out,” Max Mosley says as he remembers his role in the fiasco of the US grand prix last week when only six out of 20 cars raced in Indianapolis.
“I was in Monaco and I [...]
- Creativity. Mains electricity. Powertools. Mmm…
New from O’Reilly: Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
"Farnham, UK–Take a geek and a PC, add a soldering iron, a home, and a copy of "Home Hacking Projects for Geeks" (Northrup and Faulkner, O’Reilly), and you’ll give new meaning to the words "home improvement." From fearless neophytes to tool-wielding masterminds, the home hacker in any geek [...]
- Damned populism
Pengiun has come up with the great idea of releasing a series of 20 paperbacks “thin enough to slip into a commuter’s pocket featuring thinkers and revolutionaries from Seneca to George Orwell, from Machiavelli to Ruskin, St Augustine to Marx and Engels” according to today’s Guardian. It’s to be sold as an attempt to “inspire [...]
- When auto recommendation goes wrong
Just before heading off to the States in the New Year, I joined Audible.com - a quite wonderful treasure-trove of audio programmes. For less than £10 a month I get a full audio book - around eight hours of audio - and a monthly subscription to an audio magazine.
So far so good. For my [...]
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