December 7th, 2007
Seesmic is to video what twitter is to blogging. Microvlogging, perhaps you can call it. But while the videos (vlogs) might be short, the Seesmic experience is far too consuming.
Seesmic is very much in alpha and there are only a handful of invitation codes going around at any one time as they control how many [...]
November 27th, 2007
Sitting in front of BBC Breakfast morning magazine programme this morning and up pops a short feature about Nanowrimo.
It was a rather trivial piece and would likely go unnoticed by most people, but it is good to know that what is a growing activity every November is gaining some attention from mainstream press - and [...]
November 18th, 2007
Yes, waffling, out of practise, and potentially rather dull. But don’t complain because I only manage to subject you to this rubbish two or three times a year - so there!
I’m catching up on what has happened (and missing a whole bunch more). There’s the dropping of the ‘pod’ and the changes in podcasting, [...]
November 6th, 2007
We have seen buzz hotting up in the UK leading up to the iPhone’s release at the end of this week. Competing news positive and negative news stories abound and other phone manufacturers release TV ads which are clearly deliberately targeted at those considering an iPhone. Coming back at them all is O2’s announcement that [...]
October 28th, 2007
Together with a multitude of photographs and video (though not quite as much as anticipated thanks to my forgetting the connector cable from camera to laptop), I decided to capture some unique experiences in imagery. With no real inclination to spend hour after hour producing detailed drawings, these took the form of simple cartoons, each [...]
October 8th, 2007
One of the strengths of podcasts is the control the audience has over where and when they consume the content they are interested in. Tapping into this, traditional radio has been repurposing existing content into podcast format - the BBC in the UK being a prime example. But there is a huge amount of streaming [...]
September 11th, 2007
I broke my blog yesterday - blank white screen for a few hours. It’s back now (hence your ability to read this), and I promise not to mess with things for a few hours at least.
As a consolation, Richard the anti-spammer spammer is back with more offers of spammer help:
Hello guys ! This is Richard [...]
September 7th, 2007
In recent weeks at home we have been catching up on past episodes of Coast: a BBC series (just completed series 3) which highlights areas of interest - that means pretty much every inch - of Britain’s coastline.
Scene after scene I spot places I’ve been to growing up but have forgotten, and Jen spots countless [...]
September 5th, 2007
One post on this blog gets a significantly higher proportion of spam comment hits than any other. Today provided a little gem in my moderation list.
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of [...]
August 13th, 2007
One island, one geek, and just five of their cannot live without geek items. Paul Parkinson turns up at the island’s customs office with an unusual request: to trade his choice of website for an additional gadget. Will he manage to persuade our customs officer to approve his request?Main Site www.desertislandgeek.com
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