Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Gorgeous mash up of plotting Flickr images (in red) and Twitter updates (in blue) with their geo-location to build up vistas of the world in See Something or Say Something. Here’s the London image, and the geography of the Capital is clear to see.
In preparation for my travels this March, I’m making sure I have a bundle of playlists ready to transfer onto my MP3 Player of choice (likely to be the gen 2 iPod Nano), and one of them is proving interesting in terms of why music is so powerful. The playlist replicates one of my old C90 audio tapes which had two albums by Status Quo on it. One side had ‘Perfect Remedy’ and the other ‘Ain’t Complaining.’ The problem was that there was something missing from the music. It took me a while to figure out what it was. There
Last week, Labour Party Member (and ex “Spin Doctor†from Downing Street) Derek Draper launched the Labour List to a lot of fanfare and personal appearances in the media. The noise in the UK Political scene was a bit more critical, pointing out errors, mistakes in the approach, and generally saying it looked and smelt like an attack dog from Labour HQ. None of this was helped by Draper’s “leave me alone, it’s just launched and in beta†attitude To which I ask why shout about it and go on television? I’ve been keeping an eye on it as best
Sometimes you wonder if there is any justice in the world. Certainly developers who’ve spent countless hours on iPhone applications and struggled to market them will be looking at iFart (with 30,000 sales at 99 cents per sale) and wondering why they bothered. And then there’s a sneaking suspicion that leisure applications like iFart will cause the App Store to start being more picky in the applications that are allowed onto the store. Which probably means that niche applications that cater to a handful of people will get nowhere. That means the likelihood of Pocket Walsh, reported on today by
