How Will We Be Long?
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli is Lord Mayor of the City of London from 10 November 2023 until 10 November 2024. Michael’s working theme is ‘Connect To Prosper […]
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Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable
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
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
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
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 […]
Testing out this AI thing
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?
Is that a hi-fi or a soundstage?
Net Zero Data
Net Zero Data ™ Data related to delivering Net Zero impact on our ecosystem.
Data governance — how to move fast and *not* break things
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)
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
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
“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
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
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
Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
The porous city
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!
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
Nice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)
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. […]
Periodicity
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
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
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?
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 […]
Web 0.0 – the zero-energy web?
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 …
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
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
An amazing spot of blue in a hot dry landscape – Qatar.
ATCs
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
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
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
Human Tamagochi is a mass-market, consumer-controlled interactive TV format.
What does d::gen mean?
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”
Wrote a 3-part feature for .Net magazine (Future Publishing) called “Sound on the Web” (I really enjoyed doing this)
Australia concert
Computer-music festival in Australia. Played “Glass” in concert
I joined Virgin Net
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 […]