Get a Mac UK

by Iain on January 29, 2007

Peepshow is one of my favourite comedies of the last few years, and Mitchell and Webb are inspired choices to play Mac and PC in the UK version of the Get a Mac ads. Apple (UK and Ireland) – Get (…)

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User Archived Content

by Iain on January 26, 2007

From my occasional series of ‘here’s something from the musical archives that’s pretty cool’ posts. I love the fact that YouTube allows for the sharing of this kind of content. It’s probably not strictly ‘legal’. And it’s not strictly user-generated (…)

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Jobs Vs Gates – Lexical Density

by Iain on January 26, 2007

Nice post by Russell about ‘Lexical Density’, which sounds much more scary than it is… It got me thinking, all this stuff is all very well to analyse in retrospect, so what about a real-time speech analyser that monitors your (…)

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Computers Behind Blogs – Intro

by Iain on January 24, 2007

Here’s a little pet project I’ve been thinking about for a while. I wanted to do something that shows the computers that people blog from. I reckon it might give an interesting, non-verbal snapshot into the bloggers’ world. So I’ve (…)

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Hats are Good, Hat Hair is Not

by Iain on January 24, 2007

I like hats, they keep your head warm. But once you’ve worn one, it’s a bugger. You can’t take it off. Or you look like an idiot. Obligatory buttons:

When Good Companies Blog Good

by Iain on January 24, 2007

Here’s a site that Poke built that I’ve never written about. Probably because I had nothing to do with it. But it’s a great little site. Partly to do with what we did for them. But as least as much, (…)

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Snow in London

by Iain on January 24, 2007

OK, so it’s hardly skiing weather. But you can actually see snow on top of stuff. Which is nice for a change. Expect stories of commutors taking 79 hours to get to work as a result… Obligatory buttons:

Go and See Alan Fletcher

by Iain on January 23, 2007

I suppose that’s not really possible so visit this exhibition of his work at the Design Museum instead. I went on Saturday and it was great. Amazing to see the work of someone who’s both era-defying and defining at the (…)

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Semacode Update

by Iain on January 23, 2007

Blogs are great. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I asked a question about semacodes on websites. Went to bed. Then I woke up and someone’s left me a great answer. It’s like a big huge collective (…)

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Website with Semacode, Why?

by Iain on January 22, 2007

Semacodes are pretty cool. The all knowing Wikipedia with it’s dazzling array of cross-links describes a semacode thusly: a URL can be converted into a type of barcode resembling a crossword puzzle, which is called a “tag”. Tags can be (…)

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