March 28, 2013
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I had the pleasure of attending Future Everything again this year. Manchester’s answer to SXSW in my own eyes. Now in its 18th year (I believe Drew said to me) its decided to move from the already packed May month … Continue reading
March 9, 2013
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George sent me a tweet saying how much Elizabeth Murdoch loved BBC Backstage, as she mentioned it in her speech to the Edinburgh TV Festival last year. The BBC has been the market leader for building new relationships and services … Continue reading
March 4, 2013
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I said a while ago how I found a site which is much closer to mydreamscape than anything else I’ve found to date. One of the key parts was the dream journaling and its interesting to see the amount of … Continue reading
February 5, 2013
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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
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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
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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
January 12, 2013
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Imran sent me a link to this book titled Love in the time of algorithms which instantly I instantly liked… The description is exactly what I would write if I was to publish my own thoughts instead of talking about … Continue reading
January 9, 2013
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Almost everything we’ve focused on recently has been the explicit actions and feedback of people. But as pointed out in Perceptive Media, the rich stuff is the implicit actions and feedback. This is also the stuff which advertisers would cream … 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
October 27, 2012
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Straight out of the “No Sh*t Sherlock…” book…. Although I think its amazing what developers do, I can imagine how hard it must be to write decent decentralised software. The Diaspora guys spell out how difficult it is… which Adwale … Continue reading
July 23, 2012
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How do we make things move along quicker in the area of distributed/federated technology? Things are moving very slowly although it seems most of the components are in place. When I wrote the blog about Rebel mouse, I found some … Continue reading
May 13, 2012
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When I read this article about the new breed of urban datasexuals I instantly thought maybe heck I might be one of them…? The datasexual looks a lot like you and me, but what’s different is their preoccupation with personal … Continue reading
February 19, 2012
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This has got to be one the eternal questions? Maths or science has solved so many of our questions but can it be used for working out compatibility of humans? That was one of the things which really intrigued me … Continue reading
July 23, 2011
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The era of personal data openness View more presentations from Ian Forrester I was in London Thursday for the Public 2.0 conference, which the guys behind the Data Art project put together. It was a nicely put together conference with a mix of … Continue reading
April 20, 2011
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Been meaning to blog about Harry Jones’s next venture for a while… I was shown a beta of it a while ago and I got to say upfront I’m a close friend of Harry’s and yes I did teach him … Continue reading