The first clip on youTube from the Havering Folk Club Andy Roberts Night DVD is a song about Cajun Music and Cajun Food: “This is a man who know his onions” What’s it all about? Well you see, I once worked in a canteen cooking dinners… (First time I uploaded from a .mov it the […]
Interview with Arofish from back in January, 2005 by gravel Arofish is a stencilist currently residing in London. He promised to greet our “intelligent, subtle, carefully thought out questions . . . with a load of boorish, superficial, irrelevant, conceited self-promotionism (well, I am a graffiti artist after all…),” but actually ended up giving us […]
It was one of the biggest pieces of distributed research ever conducted outside of official human population census, with over half a million people investing an hour of their time to watch garden birds and then input data via the RSPB garden bird watch website. The results are now published. I wasn’t surprised to see […]
Procrastination and I are old friends. I love this video (via @jcleary )but I’m currently trying to change how I see the procrastination monster. I’m trying to take some advice from Havi and learn that there might be reasons for my willingness to be distracted. Not sure it’s working but at least I feel a […]
This month sees Facebook rolling out major changes on their social networking structure, appearing to embrace the concept of social objects and placing them on a par with the people in the network, which is where they should be. The changes are modest in terms of technical functionality but potentially could be very big in […]
Categories and Tags on Document Sharing Websites This post emerges from a conversation on twitter arising from a comment I made about categories after uploading a document to edocr.com To get straight to the point, I usually hate being forced to choose a category from a drop down menu. It smacks of technocracy where the […]
Twitter Paris Breaks I won a prize for decrypting the acronym SoPi as South of Pigalle for someone called @benjilanyado who is currently conducting an unusual Paris break by following directions from twitter users. The prize is “a big bloke on a house, rue Biot, 18th” so I suppose that means I can blog it […]
Havering Folk Club – Mozambique Well, here’s a funny thing. Peter Walters from Havering Folk Club has started putting up some live performance videos on youTube and here’s one of me singing “Mozambique”, often a popular song from Dylan’s Desire album of 1976. This would have been recorded on September 3rd 2008 according to this […]
Flashmobs and unexpected performances in the mainstream Simulated Flashmobs and unexpected performances are springing up all over the place. You can hardly venture out on a journey through any of London’s main transport hubs without being hijacked by a troupe of dancers, pillowfighters or Musical Theatre performers. The aim of most of these stunts is […]
SearchWiki is Google 2.0 Searchwiki just started rolling out around the world today, so now you can log in to Google Search and when you see search results pages you don’t like – you can edit them. Vote individual results up or remove them, share your edits and see others’ edits for the same page. […]
