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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Twitter, emergent properties and continuous partial attention

I managed to squeeze 3 buzz-phrases into 1 title!
Continuous partial attention is one of the Harvard Business Review’s breakthrough ideas for 2007. I was reminded of this when I finally took a look at Twitter today. Continuous partial attention is all about people having too many things going on at once, like when you go [...]

Tim Berners-Lee lecture – Google Video

Now you don’t have to navigate the BCS website to watch the TBL video, because it’s here!

Tim Berners-Lee lecture notes at the BCS website

The British Computer Society has posted its report of the Tim Berners-Lee Lovelace Lecture here. It includes a link to the video of the lecture which is here.
My notes of the lecture are blogged here.

Favourite authors – Roald Dahl Museum

We went to the Roald Dahl Museum at the weekend, which is really well done. The first half focusses on the life and work of Roald Dahl himself, and the second on giving children ideas and tools for creative writing. We all got to sit in the great man’s writing chair, which was an experience… [...]

Pervasive Pixels

TBL (whose Mum and Dad were at the lecture, by the way) reminded me of Minority Report when he talked about the falling price of pixels. LEDs and LCDs are everywhere. I was at Chelsea Football Club yesterday to watch the 3-0 defeat of Sheffield United, and they have 2 huge LED screens, but I [...]

Web Science – Part Two of my TBL notes

The diagram shows a circle, starting with an idea for how things could be better. That is elaborated into a vision for the change that is needed, which impacts how we are socially, and the technologies we have.
The change has an effect on a small scale first, but successful changes tend to be adopted by [...]

Agency.com wins Revolution Magazine Agency of the Year 2007

I’ve been online a fair bit this weekend, as I’m off on a trip to New York to work on a project with our office there, and our email has been buzzing, because we won a major award on Friday night.
Revolution Magazine, one of the main UK publications for digital marketing communications, had their annual [...]

How much is a blog worth?

My blog is worth $1,693.62.How much is your blog worth?

Based on the price that AOL paid for Weblogs, this site has calculated the value of a blog, using the Technorati API. Seth Godin’s is worth $4m, and mine is worth $1600, sadly.
Any offers?

Grady Booch – lecture notes online

The British Computer Society has put a write-up of Grady Booch’s Turing lecture online here.
Since attending the lecture, I’ve used his point that technology is only noticed when it goes wrong several times. Last night, Nigel Shadbolt, the president of the BCS was saying much the same: that technologists have delivered great, amazing change in [...]

Tim Berners-Lee at the Lovelace Lecture

A few of us went to see Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture at the British Computer Society last night, and it’s provoked a lot of thinking.
I’m going to write about a few topics over the next few days:

Web Science, the academic discipline which studies the social and technical implications of the web and the emergent behaviours of [...]