August is the ‘silly season’ for news and also the anniversary of this site launching in earnest. Last year I posted some ‘charts‘ for the most accessed pages and the most common search terms that led people to this site. Here is the hit parade for this year (based on statistics from the last six […]
Month: August 2005
Browse interface for BBC Creative Archive clips
Last week the BBC made available the first video content under the terms of the Creative Archive initiative. The footage includes material covering natural history, wildlife, science, locations. I heard there was a hundred hours of footage, though it’s hard to check this; the clips appear to vary in length from under 30 seconds to […]
Werner Herzog film season and conference
Coming up in London this September is a season of all Werner Herzog’s feature films, around a third of his documentaries, plus the two Les Blank documentaries about Herzog. The latter form part of a weekend conference on Herzog’s work, which also includes the UK premiere of the director’s most recent film The Wild Blue […]
Bigmouth Strikes Again — Five Eight article
My article on word-of-mouth recommendations among music fans and playlist sharing is the cover feature in the August issue of Five Eight music business magazine. Here’s the introduction (written by Five Eight editor, Eamonn Forde): Word of mouth is a term passed around the marketing playground everyday. But in a culture where the marketplace is […]
Blog of Forced Entertainment new show re-starts
As performance company Forced Entertainment have re-started ‘R&D’ on their next project, the blog documenting this work — previously mentioned here — has also got under way again.
iPod death leads to music buying paralysis
Two weeks ago the hard disk on my iPod packed up, rendering it even more useless than if the battery had failed (as is more common). It’s a second generation iPod, bought in April 02003, just a few weeks before the third generation (cheaper, bigger) was announced, which made me sick as the proverbial talking […]
Aggregation of data across social networks
A few days ago Marc Canter sketched the idea of a technology to interconnect social networks together, via a post on the Pho list, and it caught my eye. “Instead of a giant centralized social network with 1,000,000 members, we’d prefer to see 1,000,000 social nets with 10-25-150 members each”, he wrote, referencing work done […]