Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Americans

I’m one of those photography geeks that has all the kit, but rarely finds time make use of it. Last weekend I visited the Tate Modern to see Bodyspacemotionthings but it wasn’t that exhibition that really inspired me. Instead it was the contact sheets taken by Robet Frank, for his iconic book: The Americans. Every [...]
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Social Search usage increases

I was reading a good post today on Steve Rubel’s blog about Social Search, and how Twitter Search is gaining a sharp increase in usage. I’ve written about Social Search on a number of occasions, but Steve’s post got me thinking… So far Twitter Search ranks information purely on temporal factors; in comparison Google ranks [...]
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Wolfram Alpha knows about your domain!

I originally read about this over at blogstorm and I just had to try it out for my own domain. I particularly like the way it can show you your host location. Kind of big brotherish, but it’s still cool nonetheless. Get the widgets!
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Bernie’s Garb

Hats off to Bern for wearing this “put a smile on my morning face” t-shirt shown above.
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Google incorporates collaborative filtering-ish features into search options

I’m a big fan of collaborative filtering. Society increasingly seems to have a growing obsession with associative information and the ability to easily access and utilise trends. I’ve written about collaborative filtering before, and over the last year I have been watching how Google have been slowly incorporating it into their insights for search tools. [...]
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The UK needs Fiber and WiMax

Last year the Government proposed an initiative called “Digital Britain”. The initiative was devised in order to: …Ensure the UK maximises the benefits of convergence right across the economy and society, a strategy will be developed to secure four key conditions: open markets; empowered and informed consumers and citizens; universal access to public service content; [...]
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Some music trends

I was interested to see which music website or web application was the most popular out of all my current favourites: Is blip.fm slowly losing the battle? I also started researching DJ Shadow, apparently he’s quite big in Poland — I had no idea! Poszanowanie!
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