Archive for the ‘web’ Category

Despite some early WiFi problems (which prompted me to finally go out and buy the broadband dongle I’ve been considering for a while), I’d say BCL4 was a big success. I was particularly pleased to find many people bucking the geek trend and choosing not to watch Dr Who, instead joining in the beery Werewolf [...]

Ask any web geek and they’ll tell you that the page, as we know it, is terminally ill. For many years, it was the proud atom of the web: an unbreakable, fundamental unit. However, much like the atom, it has now been broken down further, and in modern times is being bypassed by Ajax, Flash, [...]

Also deeply fond of spEak You’re bRanes, the zenith of user generated stupidity: (Discussing a recent energy white paper) “The government have not said which type of power they are going to use, will it be the dirty fission reactors or the cleaner, more expensive fusion reactors.” Hugh Pomells, London (Discussing evolution) “One of the [...]

Time to share a current geeky web design crush: big footers. Seems that quite a few sites are now getting rather bottom-heavy and, you know, I think I quite like it. There doesn’t seem to be a name yet for this type of expanded area of functionality. Ho hum. I’m calling it a ‘functional footer’ [...]

A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.

It’s very late and as such I’ve yet to work out how important an announcement this is. Hasn’t even hit Digg yet. Radiohead have a new album coming out. In ten days. No pre-release hype, no PR, no Letterman appearances. No surprise there. The surprise? You choose the price. You could say this is something [...]

Nice Facebook analogy from Iain Tait: Facebook is an all-in-one stereo system – fine for beginners but ultimately a bit limiting and of mediocre quality (web 2.0 is separates, natch). See also Wired’s article Slap In The Facebook. This was also one of the recurring themes at BarCamp Brighton, particularly with such a strong Microformats [...]

Quite liking last.fm’s new video player. Not hugely different from YouTube, but seems a little sharper to me. Quite liking this song, too.