LinkedOut By Nic Price on 18 January 2006 — 1 min read Recently I’ve had quite a few invitations to join LinkedIn. So I joined and checked it out and there’s something about it makes me feel a little uneasy. I think it has to do with my instant aversion to the idea of actively “networking” as a business activity – it just brings the cynic out... More
Old Git By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read When a man gits old he jist likes to sit without botherment. From a book on photography from 1943. More
Web-based RSS aggregators for intranets By Nic Price on 13 January 2006 — 1 min read Just wondering… does anyone anywhere know of a webserver-based RSS aggregator that will run on an intranet? Commercial, open-source, it doesn’t matter at the moment, I’m just interested to know what’s available. It would help people share both internal and external feeds (subscription lists). I’ve searched high and low but so far to no avail.... More
For the record By Nic Price on 7 January 2006 — 1 min read A search for a definition of the currently much- (some say over-) used word mashup takes you to this wikipedia disambiguation page (i.e. it has more than one meaning) which then leads to the following: Mashup (music) redirects you to this definition: Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of... More
How will you spend your extra second this year? By Nic Price on 30 December 2005 — 1 min read 11, 10, 9, 8… It’s not getting quite the same hype as the Y2K “bug”, but this year we get an extra leap second in our countdown to the New Year! According to BBC News: A leap second is added to Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it in step with solar time – based... More
If you go down to the tube today By Nic Price on 1 December 2005 — 1 min read There I was staring at the Independent on the District Line this lunchtime when I heard this slightly high-pitched voice coming from a seat nearby. “Can I have a sip of your cappuccino?” said the voice. “No, you might burn yourself” said a man’s voice. I looked round to see small brown bear wearing a... More
Spoke By Nic Price on 30 November 2005 — 1 min read So I did a turn at Online Information yesterday. I talked about implementing a content management system at the BBC (intranet). I think it went ok. More
What goes around comes around By Nic Price on 30 November 2005 — 1 min read Peter Morville with Margaret Hanley at Online Information 2005 Great response from Peter Morville at the Online Information conference today to David Weinberger‘s everything is miscellaneous thoughts on trees and leaves. What happens to those leaves that get raked in to piles? They rot and become food for trees. I think this is a really... More
Identity problem By Nic Price on 30 November 2005 — 1 min read A note in December’s which magazine (which I can highly recommend) ID THEFT Americans happily give away security details, shows research RSA Security. 70% told researchers their mother’s maiden name, and 55% revealed how they think up passwords. I’m sure the figures would be very similar in the UK. What baffles me is that despite... More
Japanese slang By Nic Price on 22 November 2005 — 1 min read Japanese slang for a man with a combover hairstyle is “barcode head” Heard on Anita Anand’s show on Radio 5 Live last night. More