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"The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) said that consumers spent £4.03bn on video game hardware and software. Total video game sales were in excess of £1.9bn, 23% more than the previous year". Not bad for something that most of the media still considers to be a niche fad activity carried out by 8 year olds.
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"What kind over crazy, overcomplicated world have we built for ourselves when trains need to send and receive signals from outer space in order to open a few doors?"
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"'HotStuff 2.0' is an automatically updated blog developed by Dave Pattern (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield, UK). RSS feeds from nearly a thousand library related blogs are collated on a daily basis and analysed in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics". Wow, I didn't think there was that much activity in this niche, I'm impressed
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Tweetbacks Beta
Posted on Jan 6th, 2009 | 32 comments so far.
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"In response to a Mashable post about how Twitter will change blog design in 2009, yesterday I created Tweetbacks. They work kind of like trackbacks, but instead of listing blogs linking to a specific post, it lists Tweets about a specific post". Great idea. Guaranteed to be spam-free for like, I don't know, at least ten minutes
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Oh seriously, that Coldplay cover at #3.
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Oh, so *that's* the job description for a 'proper' BBC producer...
I note the artvinyl site is in the business of selling frames for record sleeves ( a neat idea). But when one of their chosen records is Depeche Mode's "A Broken Frame", what does that tell me about their durability?