Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
...as curious tourists should we not be able to take our own snapshots through the crowd ("tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal") rather than be restricted to the official souvenir postcards and programmes? - John Oswald, 1985 [1]
I recently discovered the brilliant Whoboys, via a recommendation on the always engaging ...
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
OK, so I won't be updating this blog for about a week while I finish up some pretty intensive work and play stuff before September comes crashing down on my head with teaching and study tasks.
It's not that there's a lack of stuff to write about - there's too ...
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Moconews offers its reading today of the Wireless World Forum's mobileYouth 2006 report, a forecast of broad market trends for mobile technology among the youth demographic.
The statistic barked in press releases about the report is that UK tweens will spend around $30K each on mobile services during their lifetimes. But ...
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
This blog was begging for a readability facelift, but I'm stubbornly minimalist about my little corner of the web, so I've switched from one minimal theme (barecity) to another (veryplaintxt). Plus, I've finally upgraded Wordpress to 2.04 and in so doing I've made some old widgets functional once more.
I'm ...
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
Podcasting News has reprinted the full text of Apple's recent statement about shabby labor standards at an iPod manufacturing facility in China). It's an interesting read for people (like me) who are new to Apple's "Code of Conduct" for their supply chain. A crash course in global labour inequities lurks ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Hmm... 3D Google Earth, eh?
I see Google Sketchup is still there, for folks who'd rather inscribe their person or their house onto Google Earth as an avatar or fake.
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
This one really is worth a thousand words:
, he says as he simultaneously contributes to the two most effective viral campaigns launched this year...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Music is not the primary driving force among young people in China. There are four basic assumptions underlying traditional music marketing strategies. First, segmentation hinges on the basis of musical taste. Second, people specialize in terms of musical taste. Third, music is youth's main currency for self-expression. These assumptions have ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has been gaining momentum for some months now, but some countries - notably India - have opted out of the pilot. Considering that the viability of OLPC depends on large orders of the machines (in the millions), this might be an appropriate moment ...
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
GEORGE: Magellan? You like Magellan?
JERRY: Oh, yeah. My favourite explorer. Around the world. Come on. Who do you like?
GEORGE: I like DeSoto.
JERRY: DeSoto? What did he do?
GEORGE: Discovered the Mississippi.
JERRY: Oh. like they wouldn't have found that anyway. [1]
Since the dominant theme for me these past few weeks ...
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