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Alternatives

28th February 202528th February 2025 Gavinstuff

Don’t let the mediocre be the enemy of the good

10th January 20246th April 2025 Gavinstuff

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” Oft-cited to help motivate us to get on with making something. But what happens when we’re not […]

Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable

23rd August 202323rd August 2023 Gavinstuff

via https://donellameadows.org/archives/dancing-with-systems/ “8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that […]

How to get now playing album art from Spotify API

7th August 202330th December 2024 Gavinstuff

In a previous post, I hacked this by getting the album artwork jpg from my amplifier. Unfortunately, upgrading to a new amp ‘improved’ its operating […]

ai code example: animated planetary orbit

21st July 202322nd July 2023 Gavinastronomy, research, science, socialchange, stuff

Today’s example of how easy AI can make it to write code. The interactive animation below is the final output from various experiments below.[My words […]

Bringing album art back to life (‘pi-fi’)

5th July 202324th December 2024 Gavin1 Commentmedia, music, stuff

So, after asking Spotify to treat album art properly for over a decade I ended up giving up and fixing it myself (and let them […]

On data: where is it and what can we do with it?

5th May 20236th April 2025 Gavinbusiness, data, Government, stuff

From a discussion with a non-technical board which I was helping recently There was confusion around ‘where is the data?’, ‘who owns what?’ and ‘what […]

Testing out this AI thing

24th March 202324th March 2023 Gavinbusiness, data, Finance, research, science, stuff

Here’s a basic algorithm for trading based on 1% value swings: Note: This is a basic algorithm, and there are many factors to consider when […]

A stereo or a soundstage?

22nd December 202223rd December 2022 Gavinmusic, stuff

Is that a hi-fi or a soundstage?

Data governance — how to move fast and *not* break things

1st April 202010th April 2020 GavinCulture, data, Environment, Finance, Government, socialchange, stuff, work

I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to ‘help’.  To help frame a potential response that isn’t […]

Codename: Icebreaker One (IB1)

16th March 201919th December 2019 Gavinbusiness, climate change, Culture, Environment, stuff

Development of the Open Environmental Risk Standard continues: this week, we’ve been working on a one-pager to translate what we’re doing in to more simple […]

GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind

16th August 201731st January 2018 GavinCulture, data, stuff

In the 20th century ‘globalisation’ was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is that this was only if […]

Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil

10th May 201711th March 2023 Gavin4 Commentsbusiness, climate change, data, internet, science, socialchange, stuff, work

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said Clive Humby and many others [*update: […]

Looking ahead: designing for open

31st December 20162nd March 2019 Gavinstuff

The dataverse We are in an anthropogenic age in which the digital and physical blur. Where there are more sensors than people.Where everything, whether physical or […]

Ecocide

4th June 2016 Gavinbusiness, climate change, politics, socialchange, stuff, work

It’s almost as if “Destroying the Earth should be viewed as a crime.” The UN and Interpol report that environmental crime is a growing threat […]

The tweetable scientific method

27th February 20162nd November 2018 Gavindata, publications, science, socialchange, stuff, work

Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]  

The porous city

29th January 20169th September 2021 Gavin1 Commentclimate change, data, internet, science, socialchange, stuff

  This is not a thought piece, it’s a call to action. We have failed to create smart cities. We have failed to create truly […]

Welcome back Philae!

14th June 20154th October 2016 Gavinastronomy, presentations, science, stuff

To celebrate the news: Click the green flag and press S to start …. then press space bar to launch Philae. Arrow keys for left […]

W3 conf logo, meet AMEE logo

22nd February 201331st May 2016 Gavinbusiness, stuff

Nice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)  

Those are my stars…

25th September 201116th September 2016 Gavinarts, astronomy, climate change, science, socialchange, stuff

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?

10th April 201111th April 2011 Gavinpolitics, socialchange, stuff

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. […]

Periodicity

3rd July 201016th September 2016 Gavinbusiness, climate change, energy, media, socialchange, stuff

Building on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation->decentralisation technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | […]

Fixing paths when moving wordpress

24th June 20107th January 2012 Gavinstuff

Keywords: WordPress, HostPapa, managed hosting, image upload, fix, migration I recently moved a friend’s blog to a managed (virtual) hosting solution (hostPapa in this case) […]

Obsfuscation as a method of closed data

17th June 20104th July 2012 Gavinbusiness, data, socialchange, stuff

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

27th May 20097th January 2012 Gavinclimate change, energy, socialchange, stuff

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?

8th May 200931st January 2018 Gavinclimate change, presentations, publications, socialchange, stuff

Pick a future?

Photo by Faustin Bray

Remarkable insights

28th May 200829th November 2018 Gavinclimate change, science, socialchange, stuff

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 […]

Web 0.0 – the zero-energy web?

24th September 200711th April 2019 Gavinstuff

Just an idea… Web 0.0 — the zero-emission Internet? The zero-energy web. The zero-emission Internet. The zero-net. The net-zero web. “I go all the way […]

Jodrell Bank, 50 years on …

28th August 20078th January 2020 Gavinarts, astronomy, music, presentations, science, stuff

This year is the 50th anniversary of Jodrell Bank. Today is also a landmark day for Jodrell Bank – the whole science team are moving […]

Carbon Offsetting moves forward – a first Gold Standard Carbon Offset

18th January 200726th November 2021 Gavinbusiness, climate change, Environment, Finance, Government, stuff

Very exciting times – quotes from this BBC article ‘The UK government is to define criteria for carbon offsetting schemes to bring “greater clarity” to […]

A spot of colour

15th July 200631st January 2018 Gavinstuff

An amazing spot of blue in a hot dry landscape – Qatar.

ATCs

13th March 200611th April 2019 Gavin4 Commentsstuff

Significant Hi-Fi geekery (hopefully my only such post) – ATC SCM100A’s – the Rolls Royce of loudspeakers (as used by BBC, Abbey Road and many […]

Happy Birthday Eric

5th February 20055th February 2023 Gavinmusic, stuff

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 […]

Archive of early publications

29th March 20048th November 2018 Gavinpresentations, publications, stuff, webcasting

  Date Title 2004-03-29 BBC Charter Review feedback for WMF 2004-03-01 “Primer” on Internet Broadcasting for VET 2004-02-28 “EFF Response – Music Licensing” (hublog feedback) 2004-02-20 […]

Human Tamagotchi

28th August 200111th December 2019 Gavinstuff

Human Tamagochi is a mass-market, consumer-controlled interactive TV format.

What does d::gen mean?

19th December 19993rd February 2019 Gavinstuff

d::gen unpacks as ‘digital generation network’, or ‘data generation network’, for ‘networking in a digital generation’ The double colon is derived from both the “scope […]

“Sound on the Web”

1st May 19983rd February 2019 Gavinstuff

Wrote a 3-part feature for .Net magazine (Future Publishing) called “Sound on the Web” (I really enjoyed doing this)

Australia concert

1st September 19963rd February 2019 Gavinstuff

Computer-music festival in Australia. Played “Glass” in concert

I joined Virgin Net

15th December 199521st March 2021 Gavin2 Commentsstuff

I joined Virgin Net as the 5th employee, in 1995. 2 weeks later they took the ex-Wired UK / Guardian PDU team wholesale, including Tony […]

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