Some Thoughts on Creative Commons

Over on the Creative Choices Blog, I’ve posted some thoughts on the use of the creative commons licence. It’s very much a primer article, nothing in depth or controversial, but your thoughts would be much appreciated on it…
Looking around the web, you’ll see a lot of sites branded as CC. Now this isn’t some insidious [...]

“About Time” For A New Wallpaper

Currently on my desktop is this gorgeous artwork from the upcoming Forgotten comic book… That is all.

The Social Flight Sim Video

Courtesy of the London Hacking scene’s filmic auteurs Cristiano Betta and Mel Seckington, it’s the construction and discussion around the Social Flight Simulator from last month’s Mashed event at Alexandra Palace.
Thank you very much Cristiano and Mel for the video (and everyone else involved).

Social Flight Sim from Cristiano Betta on Vimeo.

Now, how can we [...]

Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It?

Dear BPI,
I’ve not recieved one of your lovely letters, but I would like to hear an answer to a point I have regarding music online. What if I can’t find a music track or album online?
I’m sure you’re familiar with artists who don’t appear electroncially, such as The Beatles, or do not wish to appear [...]

Watch Out Twitter Investors - Here Comes Identi.ca

My old Warrant Officer always used to say (in that low voice of menace) that you should never just state a problem, but state a problem followed promoptly by “here’s what I think we should do.” So if Twitter is Fail-Whaling, then we need another service. Lots of people have said it needs to be [...]

My Mashed Report [Via BBC News]

My personal experiences of Mashed, and the story of the Social Flight Simulator will be along shortly. I’ve been busy today covering the news of Nokia’s purchase of Symbian for All About Symbian, and my overall view of Mashed for the BBC News Technology section has also went live. Head over to BBC News to [...]

[Mashed] Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed Experience

So it’s that time of year again, when the great and the good gather to watch the pivotal episode of the Doctor Who season gather in Alexandra Palace for two days (and one night) of hacking, coding, building, geeking out, and other stuff - BBC Mashed. Yes I’m there again; no I’m not building a [...]

[Mashed] My Plans for BBC Mashed [!Hackday] Next Week

Next weekend is the BBC’s Mashed event, and I think there are a few tickets left, but in any case it’s going to see close to 500 hackers, developers, web 2.0 specialists and a fair proportion of the UK’s digital community in one place. Throw in a bundle of sessions, overnight hacking, and some planned [...]

Skype and Windows XP Problems

Spent most of Sunday trying to chase down something annoying on my laptop - a few days ago Skype stopped working, it would just hang for no reason. No matter what I’ve tried it heads out to connect, gets two or three names, then locks up.
Interestingly, if I try another user profile on my laptop [...]

Barcelona For A Few Days

Heading over to Barcelona for the Nokia S60 Summit this morning, mostly to be reported over on All About Symbian and All About N-Gage. It’s also a good chance to crack up the MaxRoam SIM card so I don’t get stung calling home! While my usual number will still be working, you can call the [...]

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