If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week or two, you’ll know that I’m always on the lookout for ways of getting things done – specifically, software that helps me achieve more with less effort – or at least in a way that makes it feel like less effort. I like doing [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: Productivity, tech
I thought I’d just do a quick blog post, because for the first time in probably two years, I’m using dictation software again. I used to write quite a bit using dictation software and it was all right, but I would always have to go back and correct some of the words afterwards. I thought [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Research,Technology
Tagged: dictation
Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? Panic – The Smiths (1986) There’s a lot being said on the internet about last night’s escalation of riots in London and Birmingham (and spreading). So much so that blogging about it feels [...]
Categories: Birmingham,culture,Politics,Technology
iPhone photos from last night, edited with Diptic, filtered and posted with Instagram, uploaded to Flickr and linked to on Twitter – within 3 minutes of the shots being taken… I’ve been following Pete Ashton‘s new FYPA.net blog. I think it’s brilliant. I think it’s brilliant in a way that I do not wish to [...]
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I’ve been in Stavanger in Norway most of this week, working on a project that, when you say it out loud, might seem a little odd. There’s this 10-piece avant-garde improvisational jazz band called the Kitchen Orchestra. They use a lot of electronics alongside traditional instrumentation. They’re putting on a performance of a five-movement composition [...]
Categories: Music,Technology
Tagged: Kitchen Orchestra
Since this is a bit of a technical post, I thought I’d pop this video in. It’s broadly related, but it also has the advantage of giving the non-techies something to enjoy in amongst all the jargon. It’s also a contemporary celebration of the classic British tradition of the ‘pun skit’. Four Candles 2.0, if [...]
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Tagged: iPhone
I first met Nancy Baym on Twitter, and now we’re also friends on Facebook. We’ve talked via email about a couple of things as well. She’s a professor in the US and we have some mutual friends in common, many of whom one or both of us have never actually met in person. She’s written [...]
Categories: culture,Education,Technology,University
Tagged: Academic, Internet, Interview, Music, Social media
Photo of Jake ‘Andy Warhol’d’ on the iPad I thought this would be a shorter blog post than usual. I wrote it on an iPad – and while that’s not as arduous as some people would have you think (“It needs a real keyboard!”) it’s a slower process than writing it on the laptop would [...]
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Tagged: iPad
Photo by smlions12 I’m not very good at Facebook. I know some people who are masters of it, and it pretty much dominates their web experience. Whereas, I’m in a constant struggle to make it useful, friendly and interesting all at the same time. I’m actually a little bit frightened of it. But I want [...]
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Tagged: Facebook
Photo by estoril This started out as a discussion on Twitter, but it got a bit out of hand and I had lots of questions thrown my way as a result, so I thought I’d capture and clarify it all in a quick blog post. I kicked it all off by saying this: And then [...]
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