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To: Francois Jordaan <Daniel Epps; linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: woofffffffff.
Date: 20/04/2007 12:40:53
And yet another questionable product for dog "lovers":
http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=2155
From: Daniel Epps
Sent: 19 April 2007 12:52
To: linkmonkey
Subject: woofffffffff.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/hotdoll-the-sex-doll-for-dogs-253334.php
To: Francois Jordaan <UK User Experience>
Subject: nrtb: Chris Ware et al on Tintin
Date: 16/04/2007 13:51:18
The "Tintin and I" series has longish interviews with Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Jessica Abel, and others:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/tintinandi/index.html
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
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An LBi Group Company
To: Francois Jordaan <UK User Experience; linkmonkey>
Subject: London tube google maps mashup
Date: 10/04/2007 13:38:40
About time for something like this to appear: http://tubejp.co.uk/ Why haven't TFL done this themselves? I would really want one for the buses too. f
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Afraid of heights?
Date: 20/03/2007 11:10:40
Then the Grand Canyon Skywalk is not for you:
http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1116768.php?mpnlog=1
When the ambitious new attraction opens to the public on March 28, brave visitors will be able to experience the Grand Canyon from a completely new perspective. 'Skywalk' as it is known is a horseshoe shaped glass open-air walkway suspended 1,200 metres above the canyon's floor and extended 21 metres from the west rim of the Grand Canyon.
More here:
http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/home.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_Skywalk
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
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To: Francois Jordaan <Jonathan Baker-Bates; linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: Who needs Photoshop?
Date: 09/03/2007 10:13:15
Note they're not the only ones doing this by any means. SnipShot (née Pixoh) launched a year ago, and Adobe is launching an online version of Photoshop before the end of the year.
http://news.com.com/Adobe+to+take+Photoshop+online/2100-7345_3-6163015.html
But if this has seamless integration with Flickr, I need it.
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From: Jonathan Baker-Bates
Sent: 09 March 2007 10:12
To: linkmonkey
Subject: Who needs Photoshop?
Take photos from Flickr (or anywhere else), 'shop 'em and bung them back.
Set your stopwatches now for the Yahoo! buyout.
Jonathan Baker-Bates
User Experience Architect
jonathan.baker-bates | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1040
Mobile: +44 7909 537 528
Skype: gilgongo
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
LBi Beaumont House Kensington Village Avonmore Road London W14 8TS UK
An LBi Group company
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: IKEA hacker
Date: 26/02/2007 18:11:11
Not a tabloid headline about a axe-wielding shopper on the rampage in your favourite Swedish superstore (although surely it's just a matter of time), but...
Novel uses for IKEA products:
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/ikea-hacker.html
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
LBi Beaumont House Kensington Village Avonmore Road London W14 8TS UK
An LBi Group Company
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Declutter your desk
Date: 21/02/2007 14:29:44
Clever. I might just do this...
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
LBi Beaumont House Kensington Village Avonmore Road London W14 8TS UK
An LBi Group Company
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; Creative; UK User Experience>
Subject: nrtb: HDR photography
Date: 21/02/2007 09:45:36
[THIS IS A STREAM POST: PLEASE COMMENT RATHER THAN REPLYING BY EMAIL]
http://stream.lbigroup.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/hdr_photography/
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Photography enthusiasts amongst you would already have heard of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures (i.e. a large difference between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.
Here are some images by a master of HDR
http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/sets/72057594049344877/detail/
HDRI was originally developed for use with purely computer-generated images. Later, methods were developed to produce a HDR image from a set of photos taken with a range of exposures. With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy to use desktop software, the term "HDR" is now popularly used[1] to refer to the process of tone mapping together bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range; however, in this case neither the input nor the output qualify as "true" HDRI.
It's really quite difficult to define what makes it so striking. It's not like it makes up any detail that doesn't exist in the image. Perhaps it's closer to how the eye works, which adjusts its aperture continuously in a split second depending on what you're focusing on. Your eye is less bothered by changes of light/dark in a scene.
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
LBi Beaumont House Kensington Village Avonmore Road London W14 8TS UK
An LBi Group Company
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: My Neighbour Totoro (and Helen McCarthy) at the Barbican, 20 Feb
Date: 14/02/2007 16:06:15
There's probably not too many people who have yet to discover Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 animation masterpiece. But if you haven't, do yourself a favour next Tuesday evening and give it a shot:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=5327
At the screening, Helen McCarthy (who wrote a very good book on Studio Ghibli's films), talks about the influences of Japanese animation on recent Western animation.
Part of the Barbican's Japanimation season (now mostly over):
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?ID=379
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Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
LBi Beaumont House Kensington Village Avonmore Road London W14 8TS UK
An LBi Group Company
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; UK User Experience>
Subject: Bookmark icon overload
Date: 08/02/2007 13:54:14
27 icons! Spotted on
http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net/index.shtml
Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; UK User Experience; Technical>
Subject: Mashup meccano set: Yahoo Pipes
Date: 08/02/2007 13:44:04
http://stream.lbigroup.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/mashup_meccano_set_yahoo_pipes/
Mashup meccano set: Yahoo Pipes
Pipes is an exciting new tool from Yahoo to make it easier for non-programmers to create mashups of several sites. It is made possible by the “rapidly-growing body of well-structured data available online in the form of XML feeds”, and is described as
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
The visual programming environment is a lot of fun to play with, and is really pretty radical inside of a web browser. (How do they do those pipes? SVG?) But this could have far-reaching implications for how the web is perceived in future, and what you can do on/with the web. I’d love to see Pipes used in schools, alongside LOGO and Proce55ing. The site reminds me a bit of Swivel, which lets you create data mashups in the form of charts, but is much more flexible.
Despite all the talk of a malaise at Yahoo, they are probably still the most Web 2.0 of all the big players, with consistently interesting product launches that give a lot back to the commons. I also think they’re more successful at mashing up their various businesses and acquisitions in useful ways than the likes of Google, Microsoft and Ebay. Let’s hope it pays.
(Thanks for the link, Nick)
Francois Jordaan
User Experience Architect
francois.jordaan | www.lbi.com
Direct: +44 20 7348 1049
Fax: +44 20 7348 1111
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: Steve Jobs against DRM
Date: 08/02/2007 10:36:19
Should've added:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/06/will_steve_jobs_drop.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/07/imagine_no_drm_with_.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/07/xeni_on_steve_jobs_d.html
From: Francois Jordaan
Sent: 08 February 2007 10:30
To: linkmonkey
Subject: Steve Jobs against DRM
You may have seen this already (2 days old), but this is quite a bold, laudable statement (sheer pragmatism, of course):
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
He makes it clear that iTunes and iPod only use DRM because that was the only way deal it was possible to make with the record industry, and concludes
So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies.
The Economist agrees:
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8660389&top_story=1
The music giants are trying DRM-free downloads. Lots of smaller labels already sell music that way. Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be seen not as DRM’s defender, but as a consumer champion who helped in its downfall. Wouldn’t it lead to a surge in piracy? No, because most music is still sold unprotected on CDs, people wishing to steal music already can do so. Indeed, scrapping DRM would probably increase online-music sales by reducing confusion and incompatibility. With the leading online store, Apple would benefit most. Mr Jobs’s argument, in short, is transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right.
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Steve Jobs against DRM
Date: 08/02/2007 10:25:38
You may have seen this already (2 days old), but this is quite a bold, laudable statement (sheer pragmatism, of course):
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
He makes it clear that iTunes and iPod only use DRM because that was the only way deal it was possible to make with the record industry, and concludes
So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies.
The Economist agrees:
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8660389&top_story=1
The music giants are trying DRM-free downloads. Lots of smaller labels already sell music that way. Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be seen not as DRM’s defender, but as a consumer champion who helped in its downfall. Wouldn’t it lead to a surge in piracy? No, because most music is still sold unprotected on CDs, people wishing to steal music already can do so. Indeed, scrapping DRM would probably increase online-music sales by reducing confusion and incompatibility. With the leading online store, Apple would benefit most. Mr Jobs’s argument, in short, is transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right.
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; Information Architects>
Subject: View your Google search history
Date: 07/02/2007 16:01:44
Here's how:
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/googleSearchHistory.html
This is odd (evil?): I thought this was something you had to turn on deliberately. About a year ago I considered whether to turn on Google Search History (which required me to be logged into Google throughout the day), but decided I didn't like the privacy aspects. But it seems they've been saving my searches under my account anyway, I assume by being able to associate my account with certain cookies it's tracking.
With
http://www.google.com/searchhistory
I can browse back through my search queries dating back to early 2005. There are even analysis tools like trends and graphs. For some reason, it's quite incomplete. I guess that's when I'm using a computer where the cookie hasn't been correlated to my account.
Even though the privacy aspects are worrying, I opted not to delete my history as I found the archive quite fascinating.
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: A field guide to Iraq (cartoon)
Date: 07/02/2007 09:09:48
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/blog/BLOGgifs/FieldGuide070122/cagle00.gif f
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; Creative>
Subject: Vaughan Oliver / v23 exhibition
Date: 06/02/2007 16:54:02
Free exhibition, in Kingston-upon-Thames: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/picker/vaughanoliver2.html Slightly off the Ground 18 January - 3 March 2007 Best known for his 4AD album covers, e.g. http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/eb/53/7416224128a0f48e6dfd2 010.L.jpg f Thanks for the link, Rich!
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: God's inbox
Date: 01/02/2007 09:04:44
Too good to save till Friday:
http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/2093544.html
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To: Francois Jordaan <Francois Jordaan; linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: Typography joke, to wear
Date: 12/01/2007 13:34:22
[Friday] More geekwear:
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=628
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/6792/images/800/ (OK, i know I sent this one round last year.)
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(Thanks for the links, Bruno!)
From: Francois Jordaan
Sent: 12 January 2007 12:17
To: linkmonkey; Creative
Subject: Typography joke, to wear
This I gotta have:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/11/sweater_with_builtin.html
Thanks for the link, Owen
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; Creative>
Subject: Typography joke, to wear
Date: 12/01/2007 12:14:34
This I gotta have:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/11/sweater_with_builtin.html
Thanks for the link, Owen
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
LBi Wheel, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London W14 8TS
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; UK User Experience>
Subject: nrtb: Question regarding Mac/Windows networking
Date: 09/01/2007 17:08:02
Here's a question for anyone who has both a Mac and a Windows PC, or has experience networking them together.
I want to know whether a new Mac will happily coexist in a wireless network with a Windows XP PC. Specifically, I would like it to do the following:
1. The Mac should treat the PC's hard disk as a network drive, that I can happily browse in the Mac finder
2. iPhoto on the Mac should happily browse and display photos that are kept in a folder (and subfolders thereof) on the PC's hard disk. It should not attempt to copy them to the Mac or in any way reorganise them.
3. iTunes on the Mac should happily browse and play music files that are kept in a folder (and subfolders thereof) on the PC's hard disk. It should not attempt to copy them to the Mac or in any way reorganise them. (If this requires me to also run iTunes on the PC, that's OK.)
4. I'd also like to know whether Windows can be persuaded to treat the Mac's hard drive as a network drive.
Sound possible?
francois
p.s. "nrtb" is an old Wheel convention meaning Not Related To Business. So ignore if you're busy doing important stuff.
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Illustrations by Cali Rezo
Date: 02/01/2007 18:04:38
Your first thought at these photo-realistic digital illustrations, copied from photographs with the aid of a Wacom tablet, might be the same as mine: why?
Here she describes her technique:
http://www.calirezo.com/site/index.php?Makingof
which does not involve scanning or tracing over the photograph. She redraws it from scratch, directly on the computer, in a technique akin to pastel painting.
When you browse her portfolio, however, you do see the appeal of her modus operandi, and it allows her to improve greatly on the original reference pics -- simplifying and accentuating. She's very good with colour.
http://www.calirezo.com/site/index.php?Portfolio#top
Also perhaps the nicest online portfolio design I've seen. Not too fussy, all on one page, and excellent use of AJAX lightbox*. (If slightly buggy.) I especially love the keyboard shortcuts for viewing next/previous pictures.
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via
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/30/cali_rezos_digital_p.html
http://drawn.ca/2006/12/29/cali-rezo/
* http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Over-the-top workstation
Date: 02/01/2007 15:07:08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_dc_photographer/329177120/
"The computing equivalent of slowly driving a Ferrari around town with the top down"
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Cool archival stuff
Date: 21/12/2006 10:08:44
Old images
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
and more
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/
searchable by location (terrible interface though)
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/search/
e.g. sound recordings
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/wax/
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/wildlife/
and via that
— Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds —
What treasure!
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: DC giving away free downloads of first issues of classic Vertigo comics
Date: 15/12/2006 09:03:35
From the late 80s American comics behemoth DC introduced a more mature line of comics under the Vertigo label, and the results weren't half bad. In fact, they kept me reading comics at I time when I was giving them up. DC achieved this partially by drafting in some excellent British writers -- Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and others. Of course, they ended up treating them all like dirt like they do all their artists and writers, but some good comics came out of it for a while.
http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=6186
The ones I know and would recommend are Swamp Thing, Invisibles and Doom Patrol. Sandman is very highly rated too, although I never really got into it. I don't know the others. And it's a real pity they're only giving away first issues, not the full stories.
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Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Scarlett Johansson Recording Tom Waits Covers Album
Date: 13/12/2006 14:35:50
Haha you Pitchfork jokers, what a hilarious hoax headline. Next, you'll tell me Sufjan Stevens is pregnant! Like, JK LOL, right dudes? No. Not kidding, and certainly not laughing. This is 4 SERIOUS, guys. According to a recent report on FOXNews.com (yes, that was the sound of a kitten dying) and confirmed by Waits' publicist, aesthetically pleasing and indie-savvy film starlet Scarlett Johansson is not only singing, but recording an album of Tom Waits covers.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/39206/Scarlett_Johansson_Recording_Tom_Waits_Covers_Albu
Wonder if anyone was thinking of Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue? Some other reports mention duets:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Scarlett+Johansson+tom+waits
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
LBi Wheel, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London W14 8TS
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Bonuses at Google
Date: 13/12/2006 14:27:26
Wads of cash, apparently:
http://gotads.blogspot.com/2006/12/crazy-google-cash-bonus.html
"This is all in addition to the regular bonuses that Google employees get (usually between $20k - $30k a year, and up to $800k for founders awards)."
But before you get too excited about working there, here's Steve Berkowitz, their new Senior Vice President, Online Services Group:
"I'm used to being in companies where I am in a rowboat, and I stick an oar in the water to change direction," said Berkowitz, who ran the Ask Jeeves search engine until Microsoft hired him away in April to run its online services unit. "Now I'm in a cruise ship, and I have to call down, 'Hello, engine room!' Sometimes the connections to the engine room aren't there."
http://gotads.blogspot.com/2006/12/microsoft-live-gets-vote-of-no.html
(OK, he'll be getting a bit more than a box of $100s)
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Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <Owen Blacker; Karls; Pete Stott; ; linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: Interesting post on successful and unsuccessful ways of getting your users to provide answers
Date: 13/12/2006 11:52:38
Ah, cool, thanks for the article. I'm a huge fan of Ask Metafilter, perhaps the best thing about the MeFi community. It's one of the best-kept secrets on the internet, and part of me wants to keep it that way to save it from the fate of Yahoo Answers.
I've always been generally interested in Answer communities on the web, as an enthusiastic user of the long defunct WHQuestion
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006010803378
I was very intrigued by Google Answers when it launched, and am saddened but not that surprised by its demise. I'm still curious to see whether Yahoo Answers will be successful despite the juvenile inanity and very poor community-building by Yahoo, see e.g.
I once asked the same question on Yahoo Answers and Ask Metafilter just to confirm my hunch which is the better place to ask:
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48132
Needless to say, my hunch proved correct.
I agree with Anil's analysis. I actually didn't realise that MeFi charges £5 for membership nowadays -- it must've been introduced long after I signed up. And I agree with the commenters who point out that the only way they can do that is by having a mature online community to leverage. Good lesson in that for owners of existing web communities: what else can you do with it? (In the bad old days, the answer would've been, sell them to the marketing sharks.)
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Sent: 13 December 2006 11:29
To: Francois Jordaan; Karls; Pete Stott
Subject: Interesting post on successful and unsuccessful ways of getting your users to provide answers
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: What the world eats
Date: 06/12/2006 16:20:18
Coffee-table book for Christmas?
What an average family eats in a week in different parts of the world:
http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2006/11/what_different_parts_of_the_wo.php
(Not sure whether it also represents average family sizes.)
More here:
http://www.menzelphoto.com/recent/recent.php?base=geobignutri
The book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hungry-Planet-Peter-Menzel/dp/1580086810
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Amongst other things, it does make you marvel at the amount of packaging used in industrialised countries.
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Thanks for the link, Bruno.
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Rupert Murdoch on MySpace
Date: 27/11/2006 18:43:57
Hey, he owns it, so he's got to be on it, right?
http://www.myspace.com/murdoch_rupert
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: why I got detention
Date: 27/11/2006 18:04:40
This for real?
http://myspace-527.vo.llnwd.net/01321/72/51/1321511527_l.gif
Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Chris Ware's New Yorker covers
Date: 24/11/2006 18:24:58
Fan of Chris Ware's uniquely gloomy comics, or of good illustration in general? Enjoy:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/061127on_caption_index1
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Lou Reed at Web 2.0 Summit 2006: podcast
Date: 24/11/2006 18:00:02
Yes, you heard right:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/09/web2-lou.html
Day two of the Web 2.0 Summit 2006 began with conversations with Jeff Bezos and Bruce Chizen followed by a debate on Net Neutrality between Vint Cerf and Robert Pepper. GoDaddy's Bob Parsons gave the audience advice on running a company. Performer Lou Reed capped off the day with an after dinner set.
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <Jonathan Baker-Bates; linkmonkey>
Subject: RE: Got a GPS? Free your postcode!
Date: 24/11/2006 17:35:45
And if you don't have a GPS, have a look at this:
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/11/17/postcode
a few weeks ago, npemap.org.uk launched. It's an interface for browsing scans of out-of-copyright maps from the 1950s (credits at the bottom of the FAQ). The site asks people to enter post codes based on that old mapping data, which can then be placed in the public domain. #
If you haven't already done so, you should go and add any postcodes that you know about now. It takes no time at all, and is especially important if you live in one of the 230 districts for which no data has yet been collected
Fun & addictive. So no more reason not to participate! Pass it on!
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From: Jonathan Baker-Bates
Sent: 20 November 2006 13:27
To: linkmonkey
Subject: Got a GPS? Free your postcode!
http://www.freethepostcode.org/
See also:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page
and
With which this project is aligned.
Jonathan Baker-Bates | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Cartoon fossils
Date: 24/11/2006 09:42:40
"artist Hyungkoo Lee [...] envisions cartoon characters from Warner Bros., Disney, and other studios sans fur, feathers, and flesh"
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/play.html?pg=6
Although this isn't new -- I'm reminded of these illustrations by Michael Paulus:
http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7348 1049 | Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7348 1000
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey; Flora Borgese; Framfab User Experience; Information Architects>
Subject: Wesabe: Web 2.0 personal finance community
Date: 23/11/2006 10:55:18
http://www.wesabe.com/page/faq
Wesabe is a community of people who share our experiences with our money so we can help each other make better financial decisions. We do this by aggregating and analyzing our community members' personal financial data, and showing tips — recommendations to get the most from our money. These tips and recommendations come from the collective wisdom of our entire community. When one of us figures out how to make a great decision, we all learn.
Takes a while to get you head around this (in fact, at first blush it sounds like a phishing scam), but looks pretty sensible and potentially revolutionary. And with Clay Shirky and Cory Doctorow on their advisory board, they have to be on to something.
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: MusicIP Mixer
Date: 22/11/2006 13:03:30
Interesting software:
http://www.musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp
"Acoustic search" for your music collection. This lets it generate playlists based on "sounds like". So you can generate a playlist based on the song you're currently listening to, and rediscover a lot of your music collection you don't otherwise listen to.
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Francois Jordaan | User Experience Architect | www.lbigroup.com
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: FW: Grinderman video shoot (London), 30 November
Date: 22/11/2006 12:28:13
[I didn't know it until I received this, but Grinderman is Nick Cave's new band (although all of them are also Bad Seeds): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinderman So: anyone here with "unique ? "John Hillcoat is directing 2 music videos for Grinderman and people are needed to take part in London on 30th November. Ages 20's, 30's, 40's. People should come suitably attired / casual but cool: no logos, sportswear or loud patterns please. Any individuals prepared to disrobe down to underwear should make themselves known in advance as the request will certainly be made on the day. This is not a pre-requisite for participation however! Equally individuals with unique ? You will be needed from 11am to midnight . Dont worry your expenses will be covered and you will be fed, watered and looked after. This is the first opportunity to see Grinderman in action in the UK and you..will be captured there on celluloid for posterity. Interested parties please send recent photos, description of talents ?clothes, ? ?
To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Flickr cameras
Date: 22/11/2006 10:26:22
New feature launched today -- very cool:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/
And, of course, tied in with Yahoo Shopping.
Here's mine:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/powershot_sd300/
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: Kevin Kelly enthusing about the first 10 years of the web
Date: 22/11/2006 09:50:18
Powerful article by the Wired visionary, very worthwhile (but very long)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech_pr.html
The first half I found the more gripping: a very necessary rant driving home the magnitude of the achievements of the last 10 years—and how unpredictable it all was. I don’t think enough of us think like this; we’re too jaded, and too focused on the trees to see the forest. Equally necessary is the emphasis he puts on the unprecedented culture of sharing it engendered. The second half of the article looks forward to the next 10 years, and is therefore necessarily more fluffy and debatable. I’m not sure I agree with his Matrix-like vision of the awakening of an artificial intelligence, but I do like the portentuous note on which he ends the article:
There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born.
You and I are alive at this moment.
We should marvel, but people alive at such times usually don't. Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment. We look back on those pivotal eras and wonder what it would have been like to be alive then. Confucius, Zoroaster, Buddha, and the latter Jewish patriarchs lived in the same historical era, an inflection point known as the axial age of religion. Few world religions were born after this time. Similarly, the great personalities converging upon the American Revolution and the geniuses who commingled during the invention of modern science in the 17th century mark additional axial phases in the short history of our civilization.
Three thousand years from now, when keen minds review the past, I believe that our ancient time, here at the cusp of the third millennium, will be seen as another such era. In the years roughly coincidental with the Netscape IPO, humans began animating inert objects with tiny slivers of intelligence, connecting them into a global field, and linking their own minds into a single thing. This will be recognized as the largest, most complex, and most surprising event on the planet. Weaving nerves out of glass and radio waves, our species began wiring up all regions, all processes, all facts and notions into a grand network. From this embryonic neural net was born a collaborative interface for our civilization, a sensing, cognitive device with power that exceeded any previous invention. The Machine provided a new way of thinking (perfect search, total recall) and a new mind for an old species. It was the Beginning.
I found this article via Fleck.com,
a great little Firefox extension (IE coming soon) with a silly name, for annotating web pages and sharing the annotations with other people (thanks for the link, Nick). There’s been many of these in the past (anyone remember E-quill?), all defunct, but it’s a necessary tool and lets hope this one survives. View this link in Firefox to see the above article with annotations:
http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=b04e1e720fc6a8449cf88b8b5e2644f248413abe
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To: Francois Jordaan <linkmonkey>
Subject: The Executive Coloring Book
Date: 20/11/2006 18:13:52
A classic from the archives:
http://commercial-archive.com/theexecutivecoloringbook.html
This is me. I am an executive. Executives are important. They go to important offices and do important things. Color my underwear important.
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