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On holiday...
I went on holiday yesterday, and, with the exception of my commitment to write a blogpost for Ada Lovelace Day, I'm also going to be taking a long overdue holiday from blogging. currybetdotnet will be back in April. In the meantime, here are some dates for your diary, of things I'm speaking at or attending over the next few weeks. March 30th: I'll be chairing "London IA 2010 on Innovation" which features speakers Richard Rutter, Glenn Jones, Claire Rowland and...
Privacy, distribution, licences and standards - more notes on the London Linked Data meet-up
In the last of several posts around the web about the 2nd London Linked Data meet-up, here are my notes on issues of privacy, distribution, software licences and setting usable standards for open linked data.
Human readable linked data URIs - a follow up
My blog post yesterday about human readable linked data URIs sparked a lot of discussion in the comments and on Twitter. In this follow up post, I argue that just because it wouldn't make sense for the BBC to do it with their /programmes URI schema, doesn't mean it should be ditched as a worthwhile aspiration for those who can manage it.
Does 'Linked Data' need human readable URIs?
One of the topics that came up in last week's London Linked Data meet-up was whether URIs needed to be human readable, or whether computer generated random mixes of characters were acceptable. For me, human readable is the way to go every time.
Alan Turing and John Foxx feature at the London Kinetica Art Fair
A couple of weeks back I went to the Kinetica Art Fair held at P3 in London. A couple of things caught my eye. The Aikon Project is trying to get computers to imitate the strokes that a human artist might make when creating a portrait. To that end they have some 'sketches' by machines of computer heroes Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. Another piece, "No numbers", examined our notions of digital piracy. A machine is silently playing...
"Journalism in the digital age" at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
On April 11th I will be speaking as part of a panel at the Edinburgh International Science Festival discussing "Journalism in the digital age: Trends, tools and technologies" alongside Iain Hepburn and my Guardian Local colleague Sarah Hartley.
'Identity' at The Wellcome Colection
A visit to the Identity exhibition at The Wellcome Collection was the first time I've seen 'blog comments' appear as part of an exhibition.
'News Linked Data Summit' on Fleet Street
I spent Friday at a fascinating event at the St Bride Foundation, just off Fleet Street, discussing the application of the 'web of data' to the news industry. I'd helped organise the 'News Linked Data Summit', along with John O'Donovan and Silver Oliver of the BBC, Richard Wallis of Talis, and Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust. The day was held under the Chatham House Rule, and so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but suffice...
Notes and take-away quotes: "Social media for competitive intelligence" by Marydee Ojala
An overview of Marydee Ojala's excellent presentation at the 2009 Online Information exhibition, addressing how to use social media tools to gather competitive intelligence.
Katherine Green: "Going to the dogs" at Vestry House Museum
Katherine Green recently exhibited photographs documenting the last days of greyhound racing at Walthamstow Stadium. I went to Vestry House Museum to hear her talk about the project.
London IA Mini 4: Max Gadney - "The glass-bottomed boat"
Early in November we held the fourth London IA Mini conference evening. Zebra People sponsored the night, which was hosted by EMC Conchango. In the first part of my round-up of the evening, I had some notes and a video clip of Max Gadney's opening talk. BBC History archive - 'What is the way in?' Max was talking about how information design needs to be really useful for the audience, and not just about 'designing for ourselves'. As a commissioner...
London IA Mini 4: Max Gadney - "Information isn't beautiful"
On November 11th we held the latest in our series of London IA Mini conference evenings. The hosts were EMC Conchango and our kind sponsors were Zebra People. We had a top selection of speakers - Max Gadney, Richard Sedley, Jason Mesut and Oliver Reichenstein. Today I wanted to post some of my notes and a video clip of the talk from Max. Max Gadney His talk had been billed as a 'challenge' to "much of current practice in data...
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
I blogged last week some points I'd taken away from an SLA Europe meeting entitled "Free vs Fee – the Future of News". The event comprised of some short presentations and then a Q&A session with Andrew Hughes of the NLA, Acquire Media's Laurence C. Rafsky, Jeremy Lawson from Dow Jones, and new media lawyer Laurence Kaye. Today I wanted to post some more of my take-away notes from the event. A fractured industry approach to the future Andrew Hughes...
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
A couple of weeks back I went to an SLA Europe meeting entitled "Free vs Fee – the Future of News" with a panel featuring Jeremy Lawson from Dow Jones, Andrew Hughes of the NLA, Acquire Media's Laurence C. Rafsky and new media legal eagle Laurence Kaye. The centre-piece of the discussion for me revolved around an entertaining story told by Laurence Rafsky. He spoke about a fictional young lad who had set up his own little enterprise. Every day...
Olympic Memory Marathon: Part 3 - My Olympic memory
On November 7th I took part in the Olympic Memory Marathon, a video project by artist Simon Pope capturing 104 Londoners talking about their experience of the Olympics, whilst he walked the length of a marathon through the streets of the boroughs hosting the 2012 games. These are the memories that I related to him. I've never been lucky enough to go to an Olympics, but I have visited several of the stadiums where the games have been held....
Olympic Memory Marathon: Part 2 - "I am one of the 104"
At the weekend I took part in an art project for the London 2012 Olympics called the "Memory Marathon". Artist Simon Pope walked the distance of a marathon whilst talking to 104 people who lived or worked in the London Boroughs hosting the next games about their memories of the Olympics. Yesterday I blogged about the workshops leading up to the event, and today I wanted to write about my experience on November 7th, the day of the "Memory...
Olympic Memory Marathon: Part 1 - The project and workshops
"This is an unusual project, and I can tell that by being here you are unusual people" Our facilitator wasn't wrong - within a couple of minutes of arriving at my first workshop for the Olympic Memory Marathon I was being accosted by a wonderful fiftysomething out of work actress assuring me that didn't do porn (but that she did get asked), and by another guy tipsy enough that he gave the impression of not remembering why he was...
London IA Mini IV on Wednesday night
After last month's "London IA in a pub + talks" experiment, on Wednesday we are back to having one of our regular London IA Mini events, this time hosted by EMC Conchango near London Bridge. We've got a great line-up of speakers. Richard Sedley, director of the cScape Customer Engagement Unit will be giving a debrief from the Design of Persuasion conference in Brussels, and talking about "some of the more common uses of social psychology in website design and...
Notes and quotes from Ecommerce Expo: Part 5 - Product information management and site search optimisation
Over the last week or so I've been posting a whole series of notes and quotes from the recent Ecommerce Expo, looking at multi-variant testing, optimising shopping carts, social commerce, semantic ecommerce and ticket-touting brand building and online marketing. In this last part I want to look at two presentations, one about information management, and one about internal site search. "Product information management: The next Ecommerce opportunity" - Steve Lovatt, Pinder You simply can't argue with a presentation that has...
Notes and quotes from Ecommerce Expo: Part 4 - Marketing at Seatwave, and semantic ecommerce with Smart Information Systems
Last week I started posting a series of notes and quotes from the London Ecommerce Expo in Earls Court which I attended in October. I've written up Mike Tomlinson talking about multi-variant testing from British Airways, Trenton Moss of Webcredible discussing optimising the purchase process, and Andy Leaver from Bazaarvoice talking about 'social commerce'. Today I wanted to look at two other talks that I attended. "Building a new business in a brand new category"- James Hamlin, Seatwave I suspected...
Notes and quotes from Ecommerce Expo: Part 1 - "How little changes made a big difference at BA.com"
"Collect the set" - Cambridge University Museum trading cards
Ice Sunday: Part 3 - The death of the ice trade
Ice Sunday: Part 2 - Descent into the ice well
Ice Sunday: Part 1 - The Victorian ice trade at the London Canal Museum
London IA in the Pub on Wednesday...now with added slides
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 3
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 2
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 1
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Donna Spencer
UX London redux video: Chris Petzny on Dan Saffer
London Linked Data meet up: Notes and take-away quotes - part 2
'Learn to blog smart' training in October
London Linked Data meet up: Notes and take-away quotes - part 1
UX London redux video: Frances Eida on sketching
UX London redux video: Jane Austin & Chris Neale on sketching
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 5
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 4
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 3
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 2
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 1
UX London redux video: Andy Budd on UX London
'The future of journalism' and Linked Data panel
London IA Mini Conference III: UX London Redux
'Fabiola' by Francis Alÿs at the National Portrait Gallery
Day #2 at Guardian Hack Day #2
Day #1 at Guardian Hack Day #2
The tyranny of chronology: Part 6 - The video
Toby Moores and Mark Jones discussing social media and 'the third voice' at #newsinnovation
Where was the 'editorial viewpoint' at the News Innovation unconference?
Expectations of the News Innovation unconference on camera
Andrew Walkinshaw of Timetric on 'numbers that vary against time' at #newsinnovation
Visualising the Twitter stream from the #newsinnovation unconference
#newsinnovation links on Twitter
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 4
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 3
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
London IA Mini Conference II: Notes, facts and take-away quotes - part 2
London IA Mini Conference II: Notes, facts and take-away quotes - part 1
Ronald William Webb's Chopin Exhibition at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre
London IA Mini Alpha & Beta tonight in Soho
Grand Designs Live: Personal highlights
"The Future Of Cities": Grand Designs Live
The Guardian's "Reading Room" at Kings Place
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Q&A at the Camden Roundhouse
'Do online newspapers have a future in a Digital Britain' - MTM London round-table session
International Social Media Summit in London
Upcoming Martin Belam presentation and blog training day
The Guardian Open Platform at Endeca's e-Business Forum
Carzone.ie and Euroffice at the Endeca e-Business Forum
"Beautiful Basics" - Ashley Friedlein at the Endeca e-Business Forum
"Copyright in the Digital Age" - SIIA issue briefing
London IA Mini Conference review - Part 2
London IA Mini Conference review - Part 1
ABC's "Lexicon Of Love" live at the Royal Albert Hall
"Let The Right One In" - Director's talk with Tomas Alfredson at the Barbican
London Festival of Railway Modelling at Alexandra Palace
Conferences Redux '09 - Micro-Redux
The fragile future of newspapers at the British Library
The future of 'the future' - the British Library and technology
"Stacks, Readers, Staff" - Building the British Library
London IA Mini Conference at The Guardian in April
"Byzantium" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
BBC Television studio open day at Alexandra Palace
"Beyond the browser: Usability in mobile interaction design" UX Corner meet-up
"Darwin: Big idea, big exhibition" at the Natural History Museum
'Parachuting Teddy Bear Jumps' in Muswell Hill
'Designing Change' at the British Museum
Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars: Part 4
Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars: Part 3
Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars: Part 2
Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars: Part 1
FUMSI editor's briefing at Online Information 2008
'The Folklore of London' with Antony Clayton at Hornsey Library
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