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Posts from April 2008

Links For Wednesday 23rd April 2008

Amazon.co.uk: Rough Guides - World Music
On the one hand, this sort of compliation CD seems, I dunno, faintly patronising - to take an entire musical culture, and bung it on one sampler CD. On the other, you’ve got to start somewhere, and there’s loads of music here I know *nothing* about.
(tags: music)


Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

Sorry, folks, just testing a problem with one of my websites, and I need a public post in an RSS feed to do it. Move along, nothing to see here.


Links For Tuesday 22nd April 2008

Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com
I was unfair yesterday - turns out the Economist has been talking about the semantic web for longer that I thought. There is another article from 2006 as well, but I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But still, hooray for […]


Links For Monday 21st April 2008

Robot Suit: Rent Your Own HAL Exoskeleton For The Low, Low Price of $1000!
No, I have no practical use for one of these. Yes, renting it instead of buying outright is kind of annoying. Yes, I desperately want one. With a jetpack, if at all possible.
(tags: future robosuit)

The semantic web | Start […]


Links For Friday 18th April 2008

Paxman on UGC
Or “Idigenous Content” as we call it round these parts, of course. He’s not *wrong*, but the power of IC for big media is in being seen to curate it, so that the public only find the good stuff. I would love to see Paxman’s UGC picks…
(tags: youtube web2.0 funny newsnight […]


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