April 2009
75 posts
Jonathan has whine flu. →
“Researchers at McAfee have identified that 5% of global spam email now contains...”
– Media Guardian
"This is unethical advertising and Facebook needs... →
Leona Lewis headbutted by horse →
“Something startled the horse and it flicked its head back and smacked Leona full in the face.”
travors says:
He probably realised he was carrying the woman who murdered his favourite Leonard Cohen song.
Hate to be a pedant, but you’re thinking of that other one off the telly. Either way, I’m sure both of them deserve an equine-related comeuppance.
Possible title for Kafka-esque existential novel
“24 Hours Shore Leave In Hull”
(Based on a conversation a colleague just had with a friend in the Navy).
“Please buy yourself a mask and start wearing it and some antibacterial gel. I’m...”
– My Mom is losing her mind over swine flu.
(via frangry)
"Why Twitter sucks for finding new music"
A continuing debate in which Anthony Volodkin says:
The signal to noise ratio for finding something cool in a content-specific area like music appears to be poor on Twitter right now. Last.fm/Listening to… updates, assorted services republishing data and people’s casual mentions of artist/tracks all mix up the reasons why a given update would appear in someone’s stream.
The tempting approach...
“Can they give us a few more months? ’Cause my web page hit counter is...”
– The Onions’s vox pop on GeoCities shutting down
“So Bobby Jindal makes fun of ‘volcano monitoring’, and soon...”
– Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman
(via peterwknox)
It's easier than ever to learn about a subject.
The above probably sounds like it goes without saying - “yeah, the internet, duh”. But let me elaborate; if I ever want to learn about a subject (recently I’ve become quite interested in venture capital, for example) I do the following things:
Follow people who work in this field on Twitter.
Subscribe to RSS feeds of blogs / sites that deal with this subject.
Add some...
BBC: the economic cost of swine flu. →
And, don’t forget, the benefit to pharmaceutical companies like Roche, who make Tamiflu.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Mastodon (11)
Chic (8)
BBC 6 Music (2)
The Whip (2)
BBC Radio 4 (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Joy of Solving Problems →
I haven’t linked to (or even read, actually) Steve Pavlina’s blog for ages, but today came across this gem of a post. I should get back to reading him religiously.
“Don’t bemoan your problems. Be grateful for them. They’re training you to become smarter and stronger. Learn to enjoy the training you’re receiving.”
"The difference between the Heimlich maneuver and... →
What’s the difference between Google and Pirate Bay?
Does anyone else find...
…that sometimes, people who are really interesting on Tumblr are dull as a LinkedIn accountancy group meetup on Twitter, and vice versa?
I guess this says something about how different people are suited to expressing themselves in different mediums, and how the restrictions or possibilities offered therein can either enhance or diminish creativity, but it’s been far too lazy a Sunday...
Jonathan is planning on being the first person... →
Apple are trying to patent a simple "Web Browser... →
I don’t get how this is patentable - don’t patented ideas have to be new and non-obvious? Surely this is only applying an extant generic computing concept to the specific use case of a browser?
I need to learn more about IP law.
“The limited bandwidth of Twitter - 140-character messages - makes it very...”
– schneier.com
(via garry’s subposterous)
Q. How comfortable are you with single-person... →
A. “Extremely uncomfortable. The hardest hurdle is starting the company, then finding people to share the vision and work for free, and then to find funding. The perception that people have of their own value to the business is always out of whack. Companies work as a collective organism.”
Fred Destin, Atlas Ventures
toldorknown:
“I hope your not mad” [sic] may just replace “Yours in these economic times” as my e-mail signoff of choice.
An amazing corporate culture →
The lobby has free books and a “hall of fame” board for employees who push “reply to all” too quickly.
Everyone has weird titles; the CEO is called the Mayor, executives are called “monkeys”. One employee’s title is, simply, “fred”. Causes him a lot of fun when he tries to get a badge at conferences.
Jonathan is allowed to be boring sometimes. →
"The newspaper industry keeps giving the geeks... →
Free meal #1. Giving away classified advertising to Craig’s List. Free meal #2. Giving away photography to Flickr (look at the photos from the Chinese Earthquake, why didn’t this happen on a newspaper branded site?). Free meal #3. Giving away front page news to blogs like Huffington Post. Free meal #4. Giving away “small” community news like births, deaths, birthdays, etc to Facebook. Free meal...
Start-up tools wiki →
Initiated by Ian Hogarth of Songkick.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
And So I Watch You From Afar (17)
Yes (6)
Genesis (5)
Queen (4)
Brian Eno (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What is the best comment in source code you have... →
stop(); // Hammertime!
// drunk, fix later
“People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll...”
– Thom Yorke (via jotterbook)
Drinks that are almost rappers' names. →
Crowd-sourced (ie. plagiarised) from Twitter:
LL Cool Jamesons
Long Island Ice-T
Ludacristal
Warren G & T (I made that one up, yay for me)
“[There is an assumption] that social media needs mainstream media to justify its...”
– Mashable
See also: every TV programme that has tried to incorporate a “cutting edge” “interactive” element by showing grainy viral videos.
Martini campaign promotes its low-alcohol content... →
Surely Advertising Standards will have something to say about this, especially given the way they came down on Courage beer recently for making vaguely similar claims about the beneficial properties of alcohol.
BuddyPress.org →
In an interview with TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg (main man at Automattic, which owns WordPress and BuddyPress) calls this “Facebook-in-a-box”.
Work, rest and play.
Jonathan says: alright mate, hows tings and tings?
Pursehouse says: i'm good boss
Pursehouse says: you?
Jonathan says: very well ta, had an enjoyable easter weekend but was actually glad to get back to the grindstone on Tues aswell, so perfect length break
Pursehouse says: glad to get back to the grindstone eh?
Pursehouse says: check out you climbing maslow's heirarchy of needs
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Super Furry Animals (14)
Queen (8)
Vybz Kartel (1)
Kanye West (1)
Beenie Man (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jonathan thinks there might have been some sort of... →