A few tweets from Sarah Hartley gave me an idea for an iphone app:
I’m going to call it iwall and it’s specially designed to give you a portable bit of wall to bang your head against when you are in a meeting.
Taking advantage of the tough build quality of the iphone this little app takes [...]

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The slight disruption is service has been down to a music festival - very good - and quick visit to the lakes to celebrate my mum’s 60th.
Whist up there I came across one of those ‘guide to the web’ books from 2000 and this page caught my eye
A nice Google Beta(!) screen shot and text [...]

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In any line of work there are rites of passage. Sometimes it’s the trial you have to go through to be excepted by your peers - like being sent out for tartan paint or a left handed hammer. Other times its the jobs that just make you groan. ‘not again’.
In journalism its the stories that [...]

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Apparently I’m being too rough with Delicious…
WTF!
I tried again in a ‘gentler fashion’ and it seems to work. Didn’t realise the web was that fragile.

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This made me smile. Not saying I agree. Just made me smile.
A definition of citizen journalist by Seth Finkelstein in response to a post by Dan Gillmor about defining the loaded term
“person who wants to have things both ways, by claiming all the privileges which attach to the role of “journalist”, while disclaiming all the [...]

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So Number10 has gone online with a wordpress powered website and a brightcove powered TV channel number 10tv. It’s all flickr and community orientated. Looks good.
With my video head on I’m very excited as they have obviously gone for the TV-format approach. Whilst the TV does series from a Zoo and a wildlife park, Number [...]

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I would normally stick this in my daily links but one of the comments made me smile and it’s cool, so I thought I would share.
Theodore Watson is running what sounds like a fantastic class called ‘The Make Class’. It’s about “making stuff! It is also about sharing the process!”. They make everything from [...]

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This is very cool but apart from looking at a globe it seems like one of those cool technologies looking for a use.

Still looks very cool.

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