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January 14, 2008
I’ve put a stop to my daily del.icio.us links being posted here in a vain attempt to keep this space for the writing.
If you want to grab my RSS feed for my del.icio.us links, it’s here. The feed will still come into the blog, there on the right hand side. Better, add me to your del.icio.us network. Even better, follow my network of del.icio.us bookmarkers, here. They’re very good, very interesting.
links for 2008-01-12
January 12, 2008
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Bob Greenberg (RGA) opens his On Creativity series talking about design and storytelling.
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The central thesis of the paper is that media proliferation and fragmentation aren’t just offering advertising practitioners more media choices - they are changing the very fundamentals of marketing and brand-building.
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If you really want to scare AMPTP companies, say this to them: “I hear you make even more money from “metadata” than almost anything.” They’ll quickly turn and run. Simply, metadata is the data embedded in New Media.
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ideas designed to annoy
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Sublime.
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Loving this.
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This looks good.
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His magic has not extended to visual entertainment. Hollywood and cable companies aim to keep it that way
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0o0o0o0ooooh
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While IE has achieved great success on the internet, its reach doesn’t end there. The IE boys are hard at work on features, TV shows and silent underwater propulsion systems.
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By picking up the tiny vibrations of thermal energy that exist naturally in all objects, researchers at the University of Illinois have performed ultrasonic measurements without using a source.
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The system and method may provide a preliminary processing of the input waveform and is used to recognize the particular noise rather than a non-noise signal.
links for 2008-01-11
January 11, 2008
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Read more about the attraction of playing a pacifist character, how to go about getting XP without killing anything – and of course, whether or not Noor thinks he can actually make it to 70
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Good round up of examples
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It’s designed to support event handling, logging, data preloading, managing sound and video, making transitions, data holders and data structures, patterns implementations …
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Now that’s what I call Branded Content
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The first steps away from being passive consumers and towards becoming the owners of their own machines.
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Some details..
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One bright spot would be the Internet sector. This time around the budget cut will go to print and TV, the “engagement” and “measureable” nature of the digital marketing will make the industry resilient even if there is a recession.
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Because they can.
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Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them.
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The fifth event in the series focuses on facial hair. Moustaches, beards, sideburns, goatees - half the population has facial hair to trim, style or just shave off.
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These are some data structure, algorithm, programming and etc. books, feel free to download them
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How architects of multiplayer maps make form follow frags.
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PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free.
links for 2008-01-10
January 10, 2008
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There will be no Web Operating System.
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interesting
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This can be used for SSO-style authentication, but it can also be used to prove ownership of a specific account to some other service, a concept I’ve been calling identity projection.
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In this 50 minute video from the PSFK Conference London, Piers Fawkes (PSFK) chairs a pane with Russell Davies (OIA), George Parker (Madscam), Stan Stalnaker (Hub Culture) and Johnny Vulkan (Anomaly).
links for 2008-01-09
January 9, 2008
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Advertising 3.0, evidently.
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various projects to get excited about
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Ofcom has said it will now allow the sponsorship of any channel, so long as the amount of programming that can be sponsored is limited.
links for 2008-01-08
January 8, 2008
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Furniture with changing pixels. Not quite stateless, but getting there.
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This project’s goal is to create a feature rich twitter client for Windows, with the simplicity and beauty of it’s web 2.0 namesake.
links for 2008-01-06
January 6, 2008
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Tim Berners-Lee groks the social graph
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power to the cmdline
links for 2008-01-05
January 5, 2008
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stunning 3D design
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Fonts using skin. “Skin Type?”
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Free as in Free to Listen, not Free as in Free to Use. But we’re getting there.
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A bottom-up strategy which utilizes the existing social infrastructure of small-scale neighborhood-based economics would allow the areas to develop while remain rooted in the cultural production of the place.
links for 2008-01-04
January 4, 2008
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“Laughter is universal, it is something that people in every culture can relate to. Humour, however, is socially specific”.
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Do you know, more or less, where your income comes from? For me, it’s probably very little from actual music or record sales. I make a little bit on touring and probably the most from licensing stuff.
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Derrida took an hermetic view of language. Words refer to other words, not to things or thoughts. His quarrel was with ‘logocentrism’, that assumption (as he saw it) that we have an idea in our minds which our writing or speaking attempts to express.
links for 2008-01-03
January 3, 2008
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If anything that is going to put time back on your wrist, it’s these beauties. OMG.
links for 2008-01-02
January 2, 2008
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“At the limits of your creativity is where I like to be,” Cunningham said, “helping people go a little further.”
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We all make movies, and yet, a movie is the great imposition on another human being, because it asks them to give up their real time. Your real time is making a movie. I don’t know if their real time is watching a movie, because it’s an imposition of
links for 2008-01-01
January 1, 2008
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But in the “entertainment economy” we all have to perform. Ethel has given us our mission statement: Let’s go on with the show!
links for 2007-12-31
December 31, 2007
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Pattern of Demands 2007
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past futures, and beyond.
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And in it’s place will form a fig tree
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Ze Frank took a break from his long hiatus and posted a video today about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which began this morning.
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Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web.
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And the advertising dollars are following. “As we talk to brands, they’re excited about the opportunity and increasingly interested in how to target the right people and have the data about them,” says Berman, Ford Focus is advertising on “Roommates.”
links for 2007-12-30
December 30, 2007
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This document specifies how to represent and manage profile data about IM users and other XMPP entities using the XMPP Data Forms extension.
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An (other) unconference for creators
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What new economy does syndication suggest? And does Linux point the way? (Classic Text)
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Emotion is about ch-ch-ch-changes
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“Precicely!” chirrups the stout man.
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Nuff Said.
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THE BIGGEST ADVERTISING COLLECTION IN THE WORLD .”"
links for 2007-12-28
December 28, 2007
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PHP QRcode generator with various options.. no dependencies apart from GD. uses lots of bitmap templates (via Toxi)
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Downtime is uptime
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In the documentary Cosmos, physicist and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., “1,000,000,000…”) would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies.
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The video service hosts an increasing number of intellectually redeemable video collections.
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we can imagine a “catch and release” program
