Mike Ellis
“Death is a fitting punishment for grown-up societies”. Is it fuck.
I’m not going to give them the benefit of a click by linking to the horrendous shit that claims itself to be journalism over on the Daily Heil, but this is their headline. The web is on fire with the news of Troy Davis’ execution last night. The specifics are pretty horrendous – lots and … Read more
Introducing Mobile Museum
I’m ramping up to launch a sister site to this one. It’s called Mobile Museum and will be a series of semi-structured written interviews with people who have developed, authored or project-managed mobile solutions. Some of these people will be museum people, others won’t… If you’re interested you can find out more over on http://mobilemuseum.org.uk/ where there’s … Read more
WordPress culture hackday, anyone?
A long and interesting thread on the MCG list prompted a thought – how about a WordPress hack-and-knowledge-sharing-kinda-day for culture? We could talk about stuff like: best approaches and favourite plugins ways to hook into existing systems like Omeka building some simple plugins to interface with CH open data building some simple plugins to interface … Read more
QR isn’t an end, it’s a means
QR seems to have taken on a bit of a life of its own over the past few weeks. Not only have I seen far more of the codes in the wild, but there seems to be many more people writing about it, many more news articles – and also (which is nice) – lots … Read more
Finder is rubbish
My friend @seanhandley just posted this in response to my “where the fuck is ‘cut’ in OSX?” tweet. Do you know what, I’ve been thinking the same for a while, but it’s a bit of a sacrilege to say it and I’ve instead been muttering into my beard rather than actually saying it out loud. … Read more
What to do about Facebook?
Ah, Facebook. On the one hand: …this is the single most dynamic, engaged and engaging platform for user generated content that there has ever been. 500 million people, converging on a single web application. Wait, read that again – 500 MILLION people. That’s a noticeable chunk of the entire global population. That’s a totally, utterly … Read more