Archive for December, 2006

Surf those Flickr Tags

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

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Airtight Interactive have come up with a nice spin on browsing Flikr.  Enter a search term and it their Flickr Related Tag Browser will return a Zeitgeist-like compilation of images to the centre of your screen that are tagged with that term.  These will be surrounded by related links which, according to AI, are “…a list of ‘related’ tags, based on clustered usage analysis.”  All this allows  the viewer to go on a remote ‘stream of consciousness’ type wander through Flickr, with the option to click-through to the site if an image takes your fancy.

Taped

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
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Despite the present day whirl of digital downloads, MP3s, iPods and streaming, I still have great memories of late night session making and mixing my own tapes, treasuring those that have survived twenty years or more of play. Hours spent agonising over track orders, perfecting fade outs, carefully inking one-off cassette covers and scrawling extensive explanatory sleeve notes. More often than not, the tape was destined for the (then newly introduced) Walkman of a girlfriend or the second-hand ‘music centre’ of a mate. All this came flooding back when I found the Cassette generator at The Generator Blog.

Metroblogging Auckland

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I blog here. I blog at No.8 Wire. And now I’ve rejoined the Metroblogging network.

Those with long memories will recall that in 2004 I helped launch and headed up the London Metroblogging effort, the first non-US city to join the network. After a couple of years away and a move to the other side of the world, I recently managed to talk Sean Bonner into letting me have a second bite of the cherry.

For now, I am running Metroblogging Auckland as a one-man-show but am on the lookout for local bloggers to join the team, so if you or someone you know are interested, drop me a line via the Auckland site.

The iPhone – myth or Motorola?

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Today’s The Joy of Tech – a nice tease for the Mac devotees out there and who’s to say they’re not right? Surfing to www.iphone.org, a domain registered to Apple in Cupertino, takes you to Apple’s main web page.

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There again, they would do that, wouldn’t they?