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I’d like to say that I think it’s a load of rubbish, but I don’t – I think it’s quite economically likely.
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Author: Alasdair
My Brains, They Are Loathsome
I have had a very pleasant and relaxing weekend. Just what the doctor ordered. Many thanks to all the lovely humans that helped me unwind.
My brains get no such thanks.
I had hoped to wake up this morning refreshed and ready for another week of work, but no. Whatever I was dreaming about, it cannot have been good. I woke up, half an hour early, curled up in staggering tension. Not in fear, or panic, or anything one might get from a nightmare, but rather the kind of tension that you find yourself in when you know something is about to kick off, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it, that tense, wary, ready to hurt something tension that you can feel up and down your spine and across your shoulders.
So much for relaxed and refreshed. Still, if anyone tries anything on the tube, I’ll be ready.
Bastard brains.
Google Base
Well, it’s interesting. I’m going to have to sit and play with it properly at some point, but it’s certainly an interesting idea. One thouht occurs: it’s a move away from social networking, back to a more web-tradtional approach – the idea here is not that you share content with a taste-tribe or a network of friends, but that you make it available to everyone.
I understand why Google themselves might want this: they’re getting structured data for free, that they can use to make themselves the first port of call for anyone looking for any information ever (and if you aren’t frightened by Google by now, you really should be). But like many others, I don’t see where the incentive for the public to use it is. What value do I derive from putting a copy of the content on here into their “news and articles” database?
I can in fact, see the potential value for a large corporation, from a marketing perspective, and I note that Google Base will take bulk RSS/Atom uploads of content, so in fact, and a reasonably switched-on operation should be able to dump data in there quite fast, but still, I wonder why they’d bother – surely Google will index their web content anyway?
I suspect that this is either another daft experiement, like Orkut (OK, yes, most of Brazil are on Orkut. No-one else is.) or the start of a larger plan for Google.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Links For Monday 14th November 2005
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Not only will it record anything going through your soundcard, but it keeps a two minute cache, so you can switch it on on short notice, and still get the whole clip you want.
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Links For Monday 7th November 2005
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I awnt to come back and re-read this later. It hadn’t hitherto occured to me that what Muji have done is taken the idea of being brand free, and turned it into an extremely strong and recognisable brand.
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Guide to turning any font you like into a distressed stamp like effect for logos and type effects.
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(And the second link I have thieved from Ciaran today.)
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Links For Friday 4th November 2005
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Not, perhaps, useful for everything, but I’m getting damn tired of seeing “tag clouds”, and this might offer a start point for another means of easily visualising how often a data item recurrs.
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Links For Thursday 3rd November 2005
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They’re not going to fix the software so it uninstalls properly, as would be the obvious thing. They’re just going to stop the software getting picked up by virus scanners. Noted partly out of DRM interest, and also to warn people not to use it.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
links for 2005-10-31
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An excellent blog on different ways to visualise information.
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PHP library for generating sparkline graphs quickly and easily.
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Another one for the remix culture file, with the added bonus of being a surprisingly cool piece of orchestral swing…
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links for 2005-10-27
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The American Society of Magazine Editors list of well, the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years.
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Something that makes the top 40 covers thing a lot more interesting – excellent critique and context for it…
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This is nice – last.fm have added a function that pulls up the cover art for the albums that a user listens to most, sort of like an online equivalent of browsing someone’s music shelves when left alone in their room…
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links for 2005-10-26
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MySQL finally catches up with some of the other database engines out there, with the new stored procedure/view stuff, as well as finally doing basic stuff like subqueries. Maybe I can finally go back to using it as my database-of-choice…
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Interesting bit of think that might be useful to freelancers/people starting their own (solo) business.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.