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I am unsure exactly what this is, other than "interesting". Who's in?
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It's another Big Picture link. You know it means there are pretty things, so why are you still here reading this text? Get on with the clicking!
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I think I may send this one to my boss, all our clients, and really, anyone who thinks that a simple feature that can be summed up in a sentence of English must therefore be easy to add to any program. "It's just a single field to do X" is almost never "just" anything.
Category: Digitalia
On The Failure Of Recommendation Engines
Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Bill Drummond have also purchased The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement: Theory and Policy Issues for Central Banks by Mark Manning. For this reason, you might like to know that The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement: Theory and Policy Issues for Central Banks will be released on 1 August 2009.
I think perhaps some smarter author matching in in order. Either that or Zodiac Mindwarp is branching out in some really odd directions, and proving unexpectedly capable of taking his fans with him. I suspect the former, and Amazon have made it sound like the latter, but I really don’t believe that very many people (like me) who read books with title like “Get Your Cock Out” are hugely interested in “The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement”. Oh dear, Amazon.
Links For Thursday 30th July 2009
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A talk in December. Anyone interested? Speak up sharpish, because every time I see one of these things, it sells out before I get round to buying tickets, and that's not happening this fucking time, so if you want me to grab you a ticket, speak up bloody quickly.
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Superb encapsulation of the impact of meetings on two differently scheduled kinds of staff. Should be required reading for all managers, as it will help them understand why the makers they need to meet with are often resistant to the idea of another meeting.
Links For Friday 24th July 2009
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Please, pass this link around. It's worth doing. Reblog, re-tweet, pass it on to your friends so they can do the same. If you are a geek or a nerd of any stripe, you should be aware that some small fraction of the money you spend on entertainment media is going to fuel homophobia (if you're giving money to companies that are then giving money to an operation that is fuelling homophobia, then yes, that *is* what is happening), and that this should be stopped. And unless they are publically shamed, then there is no reason for companies like Marvel to grow a spine. So you should circulate this link.
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It does exactly what it says on the tin. I have no use for this, but I love that it exists.
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Watching this, I had to keep reminding myself that he's a politician, and that his words are unlikely to be backed up by action, that he's not going to be called on the content of this speech, and that he has teams of people whose job it is to help him seem engaged, aware and generally serious about the world. Still: this is a good speech, talking sense, and it's quite nice to see him saying things I agree with 100%.
Links For Thursday 23rd July 2009
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"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." I am saddened to hear that. All wars should be fought by man-eating badgers.
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Awesome artist who, well, he camoflages himself, which doesn't sound that exciting, but serious, go look. It's ace.
Links For Wednesday 22nd July 2009
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Really quite a good quickstart – cleared up a few things for me, at any rate.
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Phil's photos from the other night – them as dressed up and made an effort will probably find better shots of themselves in there than anything I've managed to get, but at least *someone* managed to get some good photos. There's even one or two of me here that I like. Cheers, Phil.
Links For Tuesday 21st July 2009
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Nice to know that I live in the the most-watched part of the most-watched city on the planet. I feel so safe. Oh, wait, that's not safety, is it?
Links For Monday 20th July 2009
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The best cocktail guide in the world is now available in searchable on-line form. Result!
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"Memory, being a phenomenon of emotion and magic, accommodates only those facts that suit it…"
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And this, right here, is why I will not buy a kindle, or purchase ebooks in a DRMed format. I would be incandescent if something like that happened to music I own, but the thought of it happening to a *book* I owned would give me an aneurysm. I mean, it's a *book*.
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I await this with some interest. The words "dynamic superhero" to describe Holmes aren't totally out of keeping with the character, assuming it's handled right, and I loved Moffat's Jekyll, and well, it's Sherlock fucking Holmes.
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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey was my collaborator on Rust, the Eagle award nominated webcomic I wrote some time around 2000. Rust was never finished, and he has since gone on to much bigger and better things, which is fitting, because he possesses far more talent and discipline than I do. He remains one of the only people I know with an genuine interest in webcomics as *web* comics, works that truly use the full toolset afforded by the possibilities of the web, instead of just treating the web as the distribution medium for a print comic – his webcomics are genuine hyperfictions that could not exist offline. He has produced a new webcomic here, and it is as good as ever. Go. Look. Learn.
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I know some people who are ambivalent about the space program. This concerns me slightly, as they give the outward signs of being normal human beings, and then they indicate that their brains are a bit strange by holding views like that. Well, here is a link explaining why basically, without the space program, we'd be living in a very different world.
Links For Thursday 16th July 2009
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By the time this is posted, I am sure you'll all have seen this link everywhere on the internet today. Don't care. Go look at these photos again. They're a record of the single grandest achievement in the history of our species. I take the piss out of people who keep asking "where's my flying car?", but secretly, I won't consider it the future until I go on holiday to a moon base.
Links For Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Whenever anyone asks me why I hate meetings and powerpoint, I am just going to point them at this. If the purpose of a presentation in a meeting is to get decisions made, then the decisions made as a result are likely to be flawed. The information should be circulated in a sensible manner pre-meeting.
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Yes. Clever stuff. Worth the read. Ties up with some back-of-the-mind thoughts I'm having at the moment.
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This should be up on the a screen in every meeting room, ever.
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Trent Reznor nails the future of not just the music business, but more or less any creative economy. Barring, of course, the disruptive new technology that will be invented next month that will render his notions moot. But y'know, it's a good summary of what everyone should have been doing for the last few years.