An online notebook
The Newsgator family of desktop RSS applications are now available for download free of charge! This is great news, and I would heartily recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried it before gives the Windows application, FeedDemon, a try. I have been using it for three years now, and while I have flirted with online services … Keep reading
Steve Rubel has posted about "The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging". Somewhere circa 2006 the tech blogger mindset shifted – at least among the majority. People who used to work hard creating and spreading big ideas resorted to simply regurgitating the same old news over and over again, often with very little value … Keep reading
Jeremy Gould has been hard at work getting the barcamp for UK Government web types sorted out. We’ve got a venue – the Google offices in London. Cool. All the details are on the wiki and Jeremy’s blog. The Google Group mailing list has also seen quite a lot of action. One thread I started … Keep reading
Big Think – We Are What You Think The thinking man (or woman)’s YouTube. (tags: video ideas politics academic) Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google SearchEngineLand’s take on Search Wikia (tags: search wikia searchengineland) ReadBurner | Public Alpha Aggregation of what people are sharing on Google Reader. Cool. Need more people signed … Keep reading
Just finished watching The Innocents, the 1961 film based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Here‘s the IMDB link to find out more, or there’s always Wikipedia. It really is one of the scariest things I think I have ever seen. There’s a great thread on Palimpsest discussing the movie.