• WordPress 2.0 released

  Old news to everyone, just a reminder to myself to get this site upgraded when I get a spare minute.

  (tags: blogging)

• :::: Satugo the worlds first Bouncing ball camera ::::

  Almost certainly not going to be any good for actual photography, but it looks like it might be a cheap and fun toy.

• New Musical Experiences

  Dan Hill of City of Sound on the future of music, from the industry to the experience. Long, but very good.

  (tags: music)

• The Future of Web Apps

  A one day conference in London at the start of February, with some seriously interesting speakers. God, I want to go to this. Anyone spare me 100 quid?

  (tags: web_culture)

• Tom Coates’ review of Brokeback Mountain

  I had been planning to give this move a miss, because frankly, I know too many deeply annoying people who’ve been making squeeky noises about the fact that there’s a movie featuring boys kissing, and while I appreciate that it’s an important step for Holywood, it’s not something I find particularly remarkable, or interesting of itself. But Coates’ review has more or less singlehandedly changed my mind, and I’ll probably give it a look.

• Raph’s Website » The future of content

  Nothing terribly revalatory in here, but there’s a few nice turns of phrase and a couple of interesting and new perspectives on some old stuff.

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• LivingInATubemap – London photography project

  Something to keep me occupied, perhaps: an interactive on-line photo project encouraging people to visit a tube stop they’ve never been to before, and take photos.

  (tags: photography)

• 2006 Web Predictions

  A post from 37signals, linking to a couple of other posts with web design predictions for 2006. There’re a couple of interesting details in each, and I can’t help but pray that the one predicting the end of the fisher-price look comes true.

• WordPress 1.5 Themes

  A few very lovely new wordpress themes in here. I need to spruce up my web presence in a few ways, and a modified version of at least one of these might be the way to do it.

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• Ian Pearson’s Guide To The Future

  Pearson is a techologist at BT, and offers sharp and easy to digest visions of some of the ways, great and small, that technology could shape our world

• Edge question 2006: What is your dangerous idea?

  Every year, they ask a load of different thinkers a question. This is a lot of very clever people answering an interesting question, and deserves attention.

  (tags: thinking futurism)

• retrievr – an impressive means of searhcing flickr

  Draw a simple sketch, and it retrieves similar stuff from flickr. No idea how it works, muct find out…

  (tags: flickr imaging web2.0)

• Typographica – favourite fonts of 2005 pt 1

  Exactly what it says – a listing of some of the best new fonts of 2005. Several in here I’d consider paying money for myself.

  (tags: type best_of_2005)

• Daring Fireball

  Aide memoire: one to add to the regular reads list…

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• Stewart Butterfield on Flickr

  Missed this one at the time, but it’s a erally good overview of why flickr is fantastic, and a good insight into the next gen of web apps, and why they work.

• pixyBlog : hosted photoblogging service coming in 2006

  Just a note to self, really. I don’t see it replacing flickr as my general photostream, but it might wind up getting used for a portfolio site if it’s better than what I’m currently using.

• The London Review of Breakfasts

  Like The West Wing’s Leo McGarry, breakfast is my favourite meal to eat out. And London is my favourite city. It turns out that the internet is useful for something after all.

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• Amazon.co.uk’s customer service number. The one they keep very hidden on their website.

  A useful reference anyway, but also a little reminder of the dangers of shafting your customers when they can and will put together some advertising for you.

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• o2b.net » Seedmagazine.com — Lookin’ Good

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• The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

  Couple of interesting looking web apps in here as well as all the obvious contenders, even if I still want to spit whenever someone says “Web 2.0″.

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• RSStroom reader – print RSS feeds onto bogroll.

  Linked up as an example of the old cyberpunk maxim “the street finds its own uses for things”. Put the info out there, let people use it how they want. Even if it is to wipe their arses with.

• The Uncanny Valley – A study in the way people respond to near-human images.

  Explaining why there’s a gap to be jumped in current CGI technology – there’s a point at the near-human end of the curve where something is just off enough to put people right off their breakfast.

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• London art venues for hire

  Just a note to self. Vague unformed ideas, and possible plans. Ignore me.

• Soderbergh is releasing his next film to cinemas, cable and DVD simultaneously.

  An interesting anti-piracy experiment, and Soderbergh has some solid and sensible points about the need for better rights/copyright law.

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• Beer goggles effect explained

  Another “nothing to do with the internet” link, but still, it’s nice to know that scientists are working on really important things.

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