Remember how I said I was starting to write a book? Well anyway – I said I was going to write a book. Even did a bit of research and mapped out a structure for that book. It’s about how human beings have changed in response to shifts in the media environment. Interesting stuff – [...]
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Tagged: Book
Stef has made it so that you can embed your top 5 lists on your blog. It’s going to develop from here, both aesthetically and functionally – but just to give it a try, here’s a list I made on 5alist.com:
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Tagged: Internet
In which we talk about our whisky investment plan. Proof that we are rubbish at video blogs. So, like playing the piano – we are determined to be bad at it repeatedly so that one day we can be good at it. The end clips off, my hair is baffling and stupid, and there is [...]
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Stef and I made another website today. I had the idea for it on the bus on the way to a coffee meeting with Stef this morning, and he’d got it up and running by the time I was having dinner this evening. It’s called 5ALIST – and on it, you fivalise – that is, [...]
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Stef, Jason and I had a very productive day. We came up with our next big venture, they discussed (and fiddled with) their new iPhones – and we finished off by launching an I So Wish Facebook App. It’s fairly simple for now (just how we like it) – but it does the job. Just [...]
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I’m Twitter-buddies with a guy who works at the BBC and writes the Archers – the longest running serialised radio drama soap opera – probably on earth. It’s about farming, mostly. He twittered that he was working on some scripts, and so I thought I’d issue a challenge: Can Keri get the word ‘hackable’ into [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Internet
I’m using EndNote. It’s a piece of software for creating and organising bibliographies. You type in metadata such as Author, Title, ISBN, Publication Date, Publisher, City of Publication and so on. Lots of information – and it takes time to type it all in, so that you can automatically cite and build decent footnotes and [...]
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Tagged: CDDB, Endnote, International Standard Book Number, Internet, ISBN, Library and Information Science, Publication, University
So, I thought I should conclude my recent expedition to The Moray Riviera before it becomes too much of a distant memory. My father and I set off for Huntly in the morning, with the intention of visiting Whiskies Of Scotland. It’s staffed by a very friendly and knowledgeable man by the name of Ronnie [...]
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Reading room at the British Library I’m writing a book. I know I’ve done this before, but this is different. This is one of those ‘the book I always meant to write’ books. It’s big and ambitious, and I don’t know how long it will take me or whether it will even ever be, in [...]
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To the left is what I would call an email nightmare. Thankfully, the nightmare is not mine. It’s what I saw when I was working with Stef Lewandowski on the I So Wish website last week. I looked over his shoulder, and there on his laptop was my version of hell. I expressed my concern [...]
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Tagged: David Allen, Email, Internet, Stef Lewandowski
