May 27, 2013
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I can happily tell the world that Manchester’s first Quantified Self Meetup will be Friday 5th July at MadLab. Madlab will update their calendar real soon but you can sign up using Meetup.com for free. I will be giving a … Continue reading
April 3, 2013
by ianforrester
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The guardian has a article titled What next for the quantified self… The quantified self movement – the idea that tracking metrics about yourself can lead to self-improvement – appears to be gathering steam. With products such as the FitBit … Continue reading
February 13, 2013
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I have been using my fit bit everyday to give me feedback of how much exercise I’m getting or rather not getting in most cases. However I have no real log of details because the Fitbit won’t sync on Ubuntu … Continue reading
February 5, 2013
by ianforrester
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I said on Techgrumps 66 recently that I found it very strange that there was no Twitter dump import tools/services? Now I have my twitter data/dump, I want to host it myself which is pretty easy because there is JSON … Continue reading
January 20, 2013
by ianforrester
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Its great looking through my Twitter archive/dump but its frustrating that I can only read half of the conversation. Funny looking back at this tweet as it was less than a week before I had my brush with death… 6 … Continue reading
January 20, 2013
by ianforrester
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Finally got the ability to download my tweets… Over 6 years of tweets in 6.8 meg of files. It comes in a zip file not a tar file which is interesting because Facebook uses Tars for its data dumps. Structures … Continue reading
December 27, 2012
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I heard Geoff Nunberg’s piece on NPR’s podcast and I got to say, although I’m pretty much big dated out from BBC Backstage (in a nice way) I’m in total agreement. Here’s a few key points… Well worth listening to … Continue reading
September 26, 2012
by ianforrester
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Tent.is just launched yesterday… Unlike twitter, its a distributed service which means you can run your own or jump on someone else’s. Its not just Microblogging either, its more than just that. Tent.is is a Tent host. Tent is a protocol for distributed … Continue reading
August 24, 2012
by ianforrester
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I’m wondering if I should bite the bullet and install these alpha and beta plugins under Cubicgarden.com? In my mind it seems what you need for a federated/distributed blogging system is just a few plugins away? OStatus for WordPress turns … Continue reading
July 8, 2012
by ianforrester
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At Google a lot was announced but one of the other things which didn’t receive much attention was Google Now… Its deceptive because whats really going on… But if you read the Tim Burners-Lee piece from years ago, where he … Continue reading
April 19, 2012
by ianforrester
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Tim Dobson sent me this over twitter for my consideration… Tim Berners-Lee says demand your data from Google and Facebook… World wide web inventor says personal data held online could be used to usher in new era of personalised services … Continue reading
October 21, 2011
by ianforrester
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Data is a really interesting but you already knew that… I hope… Qriously insights reminds me of the excellent insights we use to get from OkTrends (okcupid’s blog) before Match.com bought it (wheres the cool insights now then?). In aggregation there … Continue reading
January 16, 2011
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The concept is very simple. One URL/URI points to a series of resources which have preselected by someone else. There usually arranged in someway, to either tell a story or illustrate a point Bit.ly for example implemented bundles back in … Continue reading
January 3, 2011
by ianforrester
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At long last the Book charting the highlights of BBC Backstage is available for everyone to download and read. Download in [PDF] [print ready PDF] [EPUB] [MOBI] [RTF] Originally I wanted to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of backstage in May … Continue reading
December 15, 2010
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Via infosthetics, It was only a matter of time before the mind-changing talk of Hans Rosling would find its way to the television medium. A reincarnation of this talk will be part of "The Joy of Stats", a new television … Continue reading