Ben Hammersley links to his mate a random bloke, Adam Greenfield:
This goes back to the joke I always make about opening a chain of coffeehouses called Faraday’s: under the condition of ambient informatics, we will need to consciously create platforms for the specific kind of conviviality we recognize as animating our “third places,” [...]
Read the Linking to this Web Site paragraph (item 6).
A planet has been found that’s only 1.5 times the size of earth and appears to have liquid water running on its surface… Wow. That’s pretty amazing. What interests me is twofold. Firstly, obviously, is there life. Secondly, if there isn’t, how easy would it be to introduce some?
Tom Coates, Plasticbag.org, Links for 2007-04-26
Tim O’Reilly has generated code of conduct for bloggers.
A short while ago, O’Reilly wrote the following in an email to me:
some people think that calling people names (your most recent being, “a big douchebag”) is a substitute for discussion.
And when I pointed out to O’Reilly that he was mistaken, that I’d never called him, or indeed anyone, a douchebag, he wrote:
One of the reasons I admire my friend Mena is that she is remarkably prescient
Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, co-founded by … Mena
Feedburner is a very useful resource on the web. For those not in the know, it allows you to use its cache of your RSS or Atom feeds as your public feeds. And it can convert RSS to Atom, and can present the feed nicely styled with CSS and it delivers usage stats to you.
Very useful. So…
Tom Coates dares to question the national treasure that is Ben Goldacre. I think Coates is a puffed-up bag of wind but does anyone care?
Zeldman’s redesigned Happy Cog and his story about his science teacher suggests a tricksy, sly, and clever man. By the way, buy his book, I did (and I’m not getting an Amazon referral for that).
