- Little Printer | BERG Cloud
There are a bunch of things that interest me about this. The physicalisation of internet-sourced data. The just-enough and just-in-time approach. The social angle. And most of all, the suggestion that this is the first of a range of tools to bring the virtual and physical closer together. I want one, and I want the developer documentation for this "bergcloud" or which they speak, because I imagine I can have fun with them.
- Hidden habits of ineffective people by Chris Wake – Quora
There are a couple of things in here that I should really work on, mostly 1 and 3, but they're all good advice.
Tag: papernet
Bookmarks for November 8, 2010
- Paper Bits: Implementing the Demon-Haunted Notebook
Lined via Eliis and BERG both, this is an idea I'm having trouble putting down. It may not actually be that useful for me, in as much as while I do use notebooks (I took delivery of my own back of lovely new Fieldnotes books myself the other day), my use tends to be sporadic, but the flipside of that is that if I could train myself to use them more, or at least better, I might find them more useful.
Bookmarks for November 30, 2009
- Photo Box « MarkSelby
My god, this is just superb. Work of total genius. Combination of the ubiquity of the digital age with the sense of magic and wonder. Utterly brilliant. I want to give these to everyone.
- Pub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement – ZDNet.co.uk
Oh, look, you all know what I'm going to say by now. I'll just restate this: free/cheap public connectivity is far more important to Britain's future prosperity than the existing business models of the content industry are, and cases like this endanger that connectivity. I would like it very much if we stopped fighting the future because of a short term threat to the wallets of some rich people, and got on with embracing it so that we can have all new rich people.
- Daring Fireball: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
Then number of times I've written, re-written, googled for, and generally had to implement one of these is verging on the insane. This one looks good, so I am noting it so I can come back and find it whenever this comes up again.
Bookmarks for July 15, 2009
- Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets – July 2009 – Armed Forces Journal – Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy
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.
- Words For Print Vs Words For Web | > jim rossignol
Yes. Clever stuff. Worth the read. Ties up with some back-of-the-mind thoughts I'm having at the moment.
- Meeting Ticker
This should be up on the a screen in every meeting room, ever.
- tedr*tumblr: Right on Trent
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.
Bookmarks for February 22, 2009
- Tabbloid
Well, this is going to make my little auto-printing app a lot simpler. Set up a fistful of RSS feeds, get them delivered as a formatted newspaper thing in PDF form overnight. Aces!
Bookmarks for January 23, 2009
- heyblog: LazyWeb URL Print Spooler Automator workflow and app (via Matt Jones)
I shall pick this thing apart at some point over the weekend, see if there's anything I can splice into/shortcut as part of my own efforts.
- The Inauguration of President Barack Obama – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Yes, I know everyone and their badger has been linking to this. Tough. These are just superb. I think #44, the picture of all the cellphones and cameras is particular telling.
- Rules of Database App Aging – Push cx
This will be incomprehensible to non developers in the audience, but oh god, this is so painfully, painfully true.
- Pulse Laser: My printer, my social letterbox
This idea set off fireworks in my head, and I think I've got a spare-time tech project for the foreseeable (I got a proof of concept lashed together in about an hour, but it needs a *lot* more work before it's useable.) I love the idea of being able to get up in the morning and have the overnight reading ready for me to hop on the bus with. Hell, even if I don't ever make the mailbox public, all I have to do is lash it to some RSS-to-email functionality, and presto – a custom POD newspaper every morning.