Funky University Stuff
Yes, it exists. Here’s a periodic table of the elements, with videos. It is at http://periodicvideos.com/ and succeeds in making Chemistry really interesting. props @ Nottingham Uni (where I did my PGCE).
Browsing Month »October, 2008«
Techmeme: A Not-Quite Retraction
October 30, 2008
Gabe Rivera, the creator of Techmeme, is either a PR genius or so nice that I am flummoxed. After my last post, trashing his service, he tweeted: Techmeme readers overlooking TheReg & Guardian’s homepages should know what they’re missing, says @iandelaney: http://bit.ly/19rsap I agree. And I guess that this is why I owe a not-quite retraction. Techmeme is [...]
Mr Angry Internet Man Explains
October 29, 2008
From the Merriam Webster entry: Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: -vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiviste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recurring, from recidere to fall back, from re- + cadere to fall Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immoderate comment on Twitter. To whit, when my [...]
Twittiquette
October 18, 2008
Twitter has been going mad today on the subject of Qwitter (There’s also Twitter Karma, much the same thing, but I became aware of it earlier than Qwitter thanks to @ssethi). The basic function of these sites is to show people you follow (receive updates from) who aren’t receiving your own updates. So what’s the point of [...]
A Dead Statesman (1924) and 2008
October 16, 2008
I could not dig, I dared not rob, And so I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue, And I must face the men I slew. What tale will serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (I reserve the write *cough* right to do poems when I am feeling lazy, busy, uninspired [...]
Sweded
October 15, 2008
Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor – somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays. As I am sure you [...]
Downtime
October 10, 2008
As you may know, I launched the newsstand magazine What Laptop & Handheld PC (as it was originally called) back in the day – 1999, to be exact. And I have grave misgivings about the whole affair. One of the most popular marketing messages that advertisers were pushing then about mobile technology, and they still are now, [...]
The Future of Newspapers
October 7, 2008
I’ve been thinking about the future of newspapers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been preparing a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-record and off-record conversations with a load of people involved with newspapers – readers, editors, pundits and the man on the [...]
Starting a Blog
October 5, 2008
It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time. …with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is certainly the easiest place to start, much under-rated… and WordPress – much slower, deeper video, but [...]
About this New Theme
October 4, 2008
[This post is rather obviously out-of-date.] The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.: recent comments blogroll widgets So to tackle those: Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this blog as a semi-continuous [...]
The Selfish Agenda: BitTorrent
October 4, 2008
Sue me now: I have used BitTorrent to sample stuff I was not in a position to buy or was not sure whether I wanted to buy. It’s been piracy, legally, but my defences, which I am sure wouldn’t see me win in court, but which might help here are: (a) I buy more music and [...]
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