links for 2005-07-05 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 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 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 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 :) Thanks to John Watson who’s behind flagrant disregard (he’s got some other flickr stuff there too) More
Lies, damn lies and statistics 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
So farewell then… …Richard Whitely Channel 4 afternoons will be a strange place without you Count down More
Lordship Lane pub crawl If you’re looking for somewhere to have a cold beer or a bloody mary in East Dulwich, here’s a useful guide on the Lordship Lane page of the Open Guide to London. The great thing about the page and the site is that if you have something you want to add or edit you can... More
Arms razed The Eaton Arms, a dodgy looking pub opposite the top of Rye Lane in Peckham disappeared in double-quick time early this morning due to some poor scaffolding work. Last orders The scaffolding had been erected around the and recently derelicted Cooperative Buildings which has a listed facade and the adjoining pub. On my cycle journey... More