Posts Tagged ‘web2.0’

BakerTweet – magical talking internet bread tells you when it's fresh | The Ridiculant | Metro – "location-aware croissants piping themselves directly into your lifestream."

quietube | YouTube without the distractions – brilliant hack from James.

Facebook | Thanks for the memories/music project – "When you hear a particular song does it spark off a memory of an event, encounter, person, place or emotion?
I am working on the connection between the senses and memory – currently sound (music in particular) in my art practice. [...] I shall be [...]

Main Page – Placeography [via moleitau] – "Placeography is a wiki where you can share the history of and stories about a house, building, farmstead, public land, neighborhood or any place to which you have a personal connection. If you don't have a place to contribute, please enjoy learning about others."
Be nice if there [...]

The Great British Sandwich – I totally can't stop refreshing this page as it keeps making me laugh.

I went to the launch party for 2gether09 at The Hub on York Way on Wednesday night. I'd been past the venue a couple of times, but never been inside. It's rather nice; a reclaimed Victorian warehouse kitted out with lots of modern fixtures and fittings and a nice vaulted wooden ceiling.
The wine flowed [...]

This session was, for me, the least successful or useful. I think partly it was the timing; it was, perhaps, too serious a subject for the time of day. I'm not saying we shouldn't discuss serious subjects in the evening, but coming after the fun of playing silly games, a quite amusing overview of the [...]

This particular session, run by Johnnie Moore, was surprisingly the most useful one for me. I went in not knowing what to really expect from the title, except that "more play" sounded fun. Although I knew there were bound to be games at first, I still had an awful sinking feeling for a moment that [...]

I found the emphasis behind the session for Future of the Book really fascinating, especially as it's one that's inciting so many contentious discussions at the moment. There was a minor kerfuffle about it on Twitter a month or so ago, prompted in part by something Tom Coates said, which was really interesting but awkward [...]

I struggled a bit to find the focus to write about last Thursday's Amp08 event at NESTA. Ironically, that's perhaps the most appropriate thing I could find to say about it, as the event seemed to lack a little focus itself.
A lack of focus was to be expected, though, for a couple of reasons. [...]