Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on July 11th:
- Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec – Oh yes.. oh yes indeed
Having a Blast
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
I have spent a significant chunk of the past four days teaching a group of young people how to make radio and television, working with the fantastic team from the BBC’s Blast on Tour project.
They are the real-world bit of Blast, the BBC’s youth creativity service, offering all the stuff that you can’t do so well on a website like free workshops in dance, fashion, music, animation and, of course, film and radio.
Last week they were on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge with a modern mobile digital studio built into a lorry and three marquees for dance workshops.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 4th through July 9th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 4th and July 9th:
- Cambridge Film Festival – Welcome – I’ve been spending most of my time here for the past few days…
- Music licensing companies come calling for royalties | floridatoday.com | Serving Brevard County and Floridaâs Space Coast – In Australia it seems that even the smallest venue is worth shaking down for a few dollars. Don’t you love the music industry as it flails around, alienating everyone who might actually promote music and musicians in return for its cut. Like the mafia, bu
- 1. Eric Schmidt | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk – Guardian makes Schmidt most powerful media exec in the world…
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Tate to be Doctor’s new companion – Dr Who jumps the shark. They said Russell Davies wanted to quit after four series – this will ensure nobody cares.
Cambridge Film Festival
I’m running the online presence for this year’s Cambridge Film Festival so activity here will be light until the 16th – check out the festival website, the Flickr feed and the YouTube channel for more stuff…
Let a thousand domains bloom
One of the Internet’s main governing bodies, ICANN, has just finished its latest public meeting in Puerto Rico. After a week of debates on subjects like Accountability and Transparency Management, and workshops on Domain Tasting and WHOIS, delegates, representatives and interested observers are all heading home, wondering whether anything useful has been achieved.
ICANN, founded in 1988 by the US Government to take over responsibility for key aspects of the internet’s technical architecture like domain names and IP addresses, has had a troubled history.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 1st through July 2nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 1st and July 2nd:
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Are my online friends for real? – But how can I be sure that the Rory Cellan-Jones I’m friends with is realy him?
- Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags: ICANN: Keep the Core Neutral, Stupid – Wendy Selzter, who I’ve admired for a long time, calls for a ‘stupid core’ to the network, but has as little faith in ICANN as the rest of us.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 29th through June 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 29th and June 30th:
- Power Plays: How power consumption will shape the future of computing: Page 1 – Interest in green computing is growing fast
- The iPhone Challenge: Keep It Quiet | New York Times Video – David Pogue’s witty look at the iPhone
- Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Behind the iPhone Frenzy – Interesting points from Ed Felten, though I think the differences in the mobile market between the US and Europe (and the rest of the world) make his perspective – and that of other US commentators- less relevant than they realise.
Cultural past of the digital age
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News Website, and I get a good critical kicking from The Black Project for being old, nostalgic and feeble…]
Last weekend I had the enormous privilege of seeing the 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s film of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.
Watching ‘2001’ on a small screen diminishes its artistry and the film can sometimes seen boring and even dull, but on the big screen with proper sound and an audience it remains a challenging, stimulating experience.
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on June 28th:
- Paul Linford: Labour comes home at last – I’d like to believe it…
- Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Why CEOs and Companies Break the Law – Excellent article from the reliable Ed Felten on why Bernie Ebbers and other corrupt CEOs need severe punishment. I worked for PIPEX in the 90’s, bought by UUNET (after I left) and then absorbed by Worldcom, so watched the rise and fall of Ebbers carefull
A good read…
A couple of weeks ago I recorded an edition of ‘A Good Read’, a programme on BBC Radio 4 in which host Sue MacGregor and two guests discuss three books, one chose by each of them. It was a lot of fun, and worked well despite the fact that I’d chosen the hardcore cyberpunk of Neuromancer while Sue picked an Anne Tyler novel and Jean Seaton, the third member of the group, had gone for Penelope Lively.
You can hear the result on the BBC website (at least for a few days) and I’ll grab an MP3 of the programme for longer-term reference.