Posts under ‘web 2.0’

We like a lot of stuff here at Mondo Towers, and today I added a sidebar widget from Amazon, with links to books and films I recommend. In case you're reading this via the feed; it looks like this:

The only trouble is that it seems to make the page a little slow in loading, and [...]

My Flickr Pro account expires in four days. I have been making intermittent attempts to pay for the upgrade all bloody day and the payments section site is refusing to work for me, just as it was doing a few days ago.
I have had this problem with upgrading my Flickr account every. single. year. [...]

So, there's this thing called "Interesting" and people keep asking about it. "What is Interesting?" they ask, and of course the short — and best — answer is: Everything Is Interesting To Someone. Or keep it even shorter and just say, Everything, full stop.
The other answer is that Interesting is a one-day event where [...]

Today, in case you hadn't noticed yet, is Ada Lovelace Day, a day designed to celebrate women in technology.

Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context.
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There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set one [...]

As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of [...]

The next session's title, Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print, intrigued me, and prompted some great discussion. Session leader, Mary Harrington, outlined what she thinks are the five qualities of books:
- physicality
- fixity
- boundedness
- authority
- universality
The physical shape of books is underlined by the cost of [...]

After a lacklustre lunch at Camino in Regent Quarter (tasty food but slow and surly service), I decided I should ignore the exciting conversations happening upstairs at PaperCamp in honour of some exciting conversations happening downstairs at BookCamp.
First up was a session suggested by Kevin O'Neill (not that one) to discuss the creation of [...]

There were a couple more sessions before lunch. First was Cheathco's Pirates and Scalpels: travel guides/one shot books/newspapers. As Chris confessed right at the start, he has "something of an obsession" with guide books (delineated in more detail in this post), although he is not particularly precious about them as objects. Quite the opposite; all [...]

After Aaron's talk, Tom Taylor gave a little spiel about his microprinter, a standard till printer hooked up to the internet to print whatever you command it to, which in Tom's case are things like his daily calendar, weather reports, and @towerbridge opening times to help him plan his cycling route. Nifty! The notes for [...]