Mobile TV
There's a mobile TV conference next to my office again - the next big thing is apparently going to be television beamed into our cellphones, for which we will apparently pay good money. I don't know about any of you, but I don't think
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Interesting weblog posts
As of this evening, when you comment on someone else's weblog post, it's marked as "interesting" and you can keep track of follow-up comments via the 'view your activity' button. I realise people will want to stop keeping track of certain posts
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New year, new focus
If 2005 was the year of Web 2.0, complete with its thousands of crazy-sounding public betas and AJAX-heavy shopping lists, let 2006 be the year of joining things up and applying focus to what has been a chaotic and sometimes bizarre marketplace. This year, if it hasn't
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A final year round-up and some delegation
This is a repost of an email I sent to the development mailing list. It's really good to see some activity in the development community - conversation about developments and different people with different ideas contributing code is, for me, what open source is all about. When we
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When assignments go too far
AP: U.S. Teen Runs Off to Iraq by Himself - Yahoo! News A crazy, irresponsible stunt - but I have to confess, I'd love him to stick his interviews up on the web.
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Internet addiction and online learning environments
It's nice to get away for a while; a difference of perspective does a world of good for your clarity of thought, and often even your basic happiness. You don't get a much bigger difference of perspective as between Oxford and the San Joaquin Valley (pictured
Happy holidays
Best wishes to everyone this holiday season. We're going to have a great new year - we hope you do too. :)
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What we're doing to combat spam
Spam is, unfortunately, an issue. As a site becomes popular, it starts to attract more and more unwanted attention from unscrupulous people who want to add their unwanted advertising, usually through weblog comments and discussion board postings. What's the point? Basically, the more links to a site there
Haves / have nots.
Last night I was in Mariposa, in the Yosemite foothills, and stopped into a burger joint. It was a typical family-run place, with $5 meals and the kind of welcoming, friendly atmosphere mixed with slight distrust that you only get in small-town America. There was a big TV in one
Flying
Apologies to anyone trying to get hold of me for the next couple of days. I'll be on the road - or rather, in the air - travelling to California. My connectivity there should be pretty good, so I'll be back online by Monday.
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A software request
An odd one this afternoon. Can anyone recommend any good free or open source exam grade management software aimed at a university level that will record as much of the following as possible: Initial, resit and final test scores Any changes to those Weighted averages Additionally we'd preferably
YaMoo (vableType) (sorry)
Yahoo will be offering Movable Type services. Together with the recent del.icio.us purchase and existing properties like Upcoming and Flickr, plus Six Apart's upcoming, consumer-orientated Project Comet, I predict a Six Apart acquisition in five .. four .. three .. two ..