A new comics-related weblog by the
gorgeous and charming Sparky of Ultrasparky.org - replete with
nostalgia, full of cool old ads from comic books and dosed up on homo
juice. Awesome...
So the department in which I work
have relaunched the website for 6music and - along with the Radio 3
site that I helped out on - it's one of the most true-to-the-medium
sites that the BBC's done to date. Very nice.
"The new home secretary, Charles
Clarke, today rejected calls to reconsider plans for ID cards after
Labour backbenchers suggested the departure of David Blunkett
yesterday should prompt a rethink."
Only six programmes in 2004 attract
an audience in excess of 15 million viewers. In 2003, 50 programmes
got between 17 and 20 million viewers. In 1999, 177 programmes had
more than 15 million viewers.
"Television viewing has proved
remarkably resilient to increased demands on consumers ... and in fact
has increased slightly over the last decade (from 25.6 hours per
household per week in 1993 to 26.1 hours in 2003)"
I'm Orlando II, by the way. You may
have noticed I'm not positng that much at the moment. I've just lost
two evenings to 50 games against American teenagers who call people
"Faggot" a lot... Wankers. Good game though...
After working on a project around
programme information for most of the last year, I've started to get
really interested in standard identifiers and metadata for all kinds
of things. A universal CRID for songs is - I think - just a question
of time...
"I know that many of you have heard
Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and others speak of the 'Homosexual
Agenda,' but no one has ever seen a copy of it. I have finally
obtained a copy directly from the Head Homosexual."
"I decided to take a select few of
these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I
imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size
of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body
mass."
The idea - that you can make a list
of songs and post them up on your site - isn't particularly
revolutionary, but it's not that far off integrating with your music
app (Windows Media Player) and becoming a nicely distributed
audioscrobbler...
"And none of this has anything to do
with bricks, mortar and the ability to chart a course. None of it
helps an institution we could easily help by guaranteed licence fee
and lengthened charter if we wanted to, for barely the price of a new
ID card."
Every two months or so I lose the
URL for this and want to find it again. Two players who have never met
try to guess words to describe a picture. If they match they get
points, and the image gains useful metadata... Awesome stuff...
And I have to confess - I'm pretty
bloody impressed. One of the easiest installations I've ever done for
a wiki and very powerful and flexible. This might be the core of a
future project
"The line up for 2005's Etech has
been posted, and so far it seems like the same people talking about
the same pet subjects. Not many 'genuine outbreaks of the future' so
far." Plus, I'm a Beatle. Which is nice.
" As we speak, lots of nice grannies
at Extra Care and Age Concern centres around the UK are knitting us
mini bobble hats for our smoothies. For each bottle sold in EAT
outlets across the UK, innocent and EAT will donate 50p to Age
Concern"
Not only beautiful,
well-constructed, web native and elegant - but also bloody
interesting. It's probably cos I'm a poof, but I find this way more
interesting than Belle de Jour...
Like much of what's been happening
online, I've completely missed the '2004 weblog awards' (no relation
to the Bloggies). I think this one emerged from the mostly right-wing
ex-warblogger politico community/ecosystem...
"Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999)
: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with
reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the
writer"
"Sissy is a pejorative term for boys
who appear effeminate - typical for a society that considers the
separation of male and female identified characteristics more
important than the separation of church and state..."
"A naked iPod? Girlfriend,
youâve got to cover that thing - and we have a super solution! C.
Ronsonâs iPod hoodie has all the features of its life-sized
original yet scaled down to keep yr MP3 player
or phone lookin' spiffy!!! Blue or pink."
I'm not terribly interested in the
rumour mill surrounding this one, except to say that if Google were
going to try and buy Flickr then I would consider it evidence of their
intelligence and good sense...
"The world's most dysfunctional
family deliver a counterpoint to the Queen's traditional broadcast,
with Marge Simpson and the rest of the clan giving their view of the
year. Lisa takes the opportunity to make a protest on behalf of
Cornish liberation."
I meant to post this ages ago. Who
knows - maybe I did post it ages ago. Anyway, you can get - for a
limited time - MP3s of In Our Time delivered to your computer and from
there - your iPod...
Fascinating project this one - with
clear parallels to the Google zeitgeist pages - except with an
enormously smaller user base. Interested to see what direction it
moves in. Could be too literal...?
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