links for 2005-07-06 By Nic Price on 7 July 2005 — 1 min read backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Front Page :: “use our stuff to build your stuff” (tags: rss tags webservices ideas prototypes services feeds apis BBC socialsoftware opensource mapping) More
Awesome! By Nic Price on 6 July 2005 — 1 min read The waiting is over. The Olympics will be in London in 2012. What a superb performance by Seb Coe and the team. Fantastic decision, fantastic news. More
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner By Nic Price on 6 July 2005 — 1 min read I am a bundle of nerves listening to the live announcements of the IOC’s whittling down of the contending cities for the 2012 Olympic Games. Moscow, New York and Madrid have been voted out. It’s now between London and Paris… the decision has been made and will be announced at 12.46 BST. More
links for 2005-07-05 By Nic Price on 6 July 2005 — 1 min read The Observer | Focus | The rise and rise of people power The lunatics are taking over the asylum. At last! (tags: opensource consumerpower consumerchoice customerexperience creativeconsumers) lists:thingsyoucandowithrss [DokuWiki] Handy wiki listing ideas and resources for getting the most out of RSS (tags: web rss tips reference tools wiki internet) Crossing the Chasm – Wikipedia,... More
Work-life blur By Nic Price on 4 July 2005 — 1 min read 3 things that cross over between my work and my life: A desire to understand how things work. (What goes on under the bonnet? What do they feel like to use? What’s the story behind the design?) Using technology to help connect people with each other and with information My love of language(s) Not to... More
The Booth Notebooks – East Dulwich By Nic Price on 30 June 2005 — 1 min read Thanks to my neighbour John for pointing me towards Charles Booth’s Inquiry into the life and labour of the people in London, 1886-1903 (available online thanks to an award-winning project run by the LSE Library in 2002). It’s a fantastic catalogue of observations, including comments on leisure, migration, employment of women, poverty, class, crime, public... More
Google map pins – joining the dots By Nic Price on 30 June 2005 — 1 min read Several times recently I’ve been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn’t it be great to be able to plot them out on the amazing Google maps service. It already does a great job with routes from A to B (say East Dulwich to Marylebone High Street – my current daily bicycle commute).... More
My flickr photographr badge :) By Nic Price on 28 June 2005 — 1 min read Thanks to John Watson who’s behind flagrant disregard (he’s got some other flickr stuff there too) More
Lies, damn lies and statistics By Nic Price on 28 June 2005 — 1 min read I’ve just spent 10 minutes filling in Cameron Marlow’s weblog survey for his phd at MIT I’m looking forward to seeing his results More