links for 2006-12-14 By delicious on 15 December 2006 — 1 min read socialwrite.com » 2007: The Year of Enterprise 2.0? (tags: lists socialcomputing socialmedia predictions enterprise2.0) More
Norwegian wood or fake plastic trees? By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read A good excuse for a musical reference, but this isn’t to do with choosing between the Beatles and Radiohead. I was just wondering what kind of Christmas tree we should be buying this year. With all the recent mention of carbon footprints, are we doing more for the environment buying the traditional Norwegian Spruce or... More
Fast ticket? By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read The nutshell: buying rail tickets online still isn’t very joined up. TTL: “Thank you for calling thetrainline.com how can I help?” Me: “Hello, I accidentally managed to book myself two tickets using the website. Can you tell me how I can cancel one of them please?” [brief exchange of reference numbers and identification information] TTL:... More
Lost but for words By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read I can tell Wordie has the potential to become highly addictive for all the right reasons even if I haven’t quite understood the point yet… Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. See who else has listed the same words, add citations and comments, and... More
Funeral Parlour question By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read Why are funeral parlours so often on street corners? My folks were discussing this recently and have a theory about access/parking of hearses, which used to be horse-drawn. Enough to drive you round the bend 😉 More
links for 2006-12-04 By delicious on 5 December 2006 — 1 min read Beyond Search – Information World Review (tags: search toread iwr) More
links for 2006-11-15 By delicious on 16 November 2006 — 1 min read Gresham College | Home Gresham College, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1597, is an independently funded educational institution based in Barnard’s Inn, Holborn, in the centre of London. It provides free public lectures by its eight professors and holds other events. The co (tags: learning) More
WordPress upgrade By Nic Price on 11 November 2006 — 1 min read Finally caught up and upgraded the software behind this blog to WordPress version 2.0.5 It’s very straightforward – I’d thoroughly recommend WordPress to anyone considering setting up their own blog – and it’s free too – you have the option to have it hosted by wordpress or to host it yourself. More
links for 2006-11-08 By delicious on 9 November 2006 — 1 min read David Bohm “Our future depends on whether we feel like part of this one whole or whether we feel we’re separate.” (tags: davidbohm bohm wholeness gestalt) More
links for 2006-11-07 By delicious on 8 November 2006 — 1 min read United States Patent Application: 0060242139 Interestingness ranking of media objects Abstract Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as “interestingness.” These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entere (tags: interestingness patent Flickr tagging legal metadata) search bbc video... More