New role at the Open Data Institute
During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around the world. Decades since their […]
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New record low for Arctic sea ice melt
I’ve been tracking Arctic sea ice melt for over 5 years – we now seem to have broken the 2007 record. There are a few week […]
NPG expands Linked Data Platform to over a quarter billion triples
This is good news: “Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements….The data is now […]
Energy Identity
[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets of data needed for carbon […]
ISEA 2012
I’ll be speaking at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque. Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse […]
Occupy & Climate Change: Hansen, Buffet, Chomsky
Two pieces really struck me today. I think we can expect to see this form of direct action increasing. The issues (control of resource, environmental […]
Listen to the colliding “Antennae Galaxies”
A sneak preview of some of the work I’ll be presenting on Sunday. Below is a radio-image taken by ALMA of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding. […]
The utterance of a cosmological model?
“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. 2011 sees the fiftieth anniversary […]
Those are my stars…
Calling Virgin Galactic: “if we could get our political leaders to have a summit meeting in space, life on Earth would be markedly different” Alex […]
Educational biomes?
I’ve got some thoughts about a different way to create a distributed education. One I think could break through silo’s in our Psychogeography and Biogeography. […]
Binary Dust …
Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
RIP Dr David Fleming
A tragic and untimely loss. David is still a huge inspiration, his thinking, consideration and actions have touched so many people. I am glad we […]
Webcasting radio = innovation
A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station I’ve helped with streaming that’s […]
Periodicity
Building on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation->decentralisation technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | […]
Data is not binary
Science, data, internet, ontology, work and non-work themes converging – my post on O’Reilly Radar, reposted below Why open data requires credibility and transparency. by […]
Obsfuscation as a method of closed data
Things wrong with Companies House Crown Copyright data disclosure (which allows free copying) Get the DVD rom of the data – SIGH £30 for a […]
Δten / Δ10 / delta10
Many late night discussions over the last year from FOWA, IT@Cork, eTech, Green:net to Geekyoto, and with the AMEE team have led me to think […]
Possible futures?
Pick a future?
Age of Stupid
Official website: http://www.spannerfilms.net/films/ageofstupid Watch it here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/screening/pp/london_vue_acton
A Climate of Polarisation
(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate change debate. There are, however, […]
Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World” (archive)
Archive of http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/11/02/tim-oreilly-instrumenting-the-world/ (in case Tish’s site vanishes) Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World” Sun, Nov 2, 2008 Tim O’Reilly has outlined some of the world’s […]
Cloudcast :: a next step in the evolution of broadcast
At last, I think the nature of [AV] transmission is beginning to reveal itself. Do we need a new term? Probably – many other terms […]
Remarkable insights
The Long Now essay by Daniel Hillis on “Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine” contains some fantastic, inspiring nuggets, which I couldn’t resist quoting from […]
Sea ice – how well is it recovering?
We’re losing 44,000 square kilometers (17,000 square miles) of ice per year in winter (March-to-March). Last year, we watched the lowest ever sea ice measurement […]
Arctic could be “Ice Free” in 5 years
“latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.” [BBC] This is following the trends of most of […]
Jodrell Bank, 50 years on …
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jodrell Bank. Today is also a landmark day for Jodrell Bank – the whole science team are moving […]
“activist capitalism”
I’ll explain more soon, but just wanted to capture the phrase I’m now using to describe what I think we are building.
Global Cool launches
wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage… It finally (soft/beta) launched with a […]
Happy Birthday Eric
Playing around with customised CD footprints. Here, embedded in the spectrogram is an image, mashed up using Andy’s code to transform to-and-fro from spectrogram to […]
Consolidated Independent
Consolidated Independent (CI) is a world leading digital distribution company. Acting on behalf of the Independent Music sector, it delivers music, audiobooks and video to […]
Latvia performance
ACOUSTIC SPACE: RT32 Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the conversion of the RT32 telescope at VIRAC, Riga & Irbene, Latvia. A collaboration between VIRAC, RIXC […]
In response to…. BBC Charter
In response to [published in the proceedings from] Westminster Media Forum “BBC 2016 Charter Renewal” meeting 2004-02-25 at Millbank Tower. Inverting the Model Working at […]
In response to…. EFF
In response to http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php Summary I remember this kind of idea coming from the utopian folks on the mailing lists a few years back – […]
To a scribe
To a scribe. Early adopters of the Internet were scribes. This is why we drown in text. Although around since pre-history, we evolved through our […]
Project Sigma
© 2003 Precis Sigma aims to demonstrate the human scale of infinity. Its aim is to make human infinity a tangible concept and to allow its […]
Hong Kong concert
ICMC Computer-music festival in Hong Kong. Premiered “Glass” in Hong Kong UST GLASS [8m08s] 1996 The French surrealist literary movement ‘ecriture automatique’ expressed the inner […]
ICMC presentation (3D-sound)
Part of the results of my Masters Degree in Computer-Music from Glasgow University. Amongst other things, we “streamed” uncompressed WAV files between Glasgow and Edinburgh, […]
Jodrell Bank
I worked here as an Experimental Officer here 1994-95 … coding, data processing, supervising students, and helped set up their website in ’94.
Internet Music Survey
Working as a researcher at the University of Glasgow, I surveyed all the free digital signal processing (DSP) and music software available on the Internet. […]