Broadside: write once, post many, keep everything
A self-hosted social posting tool, ensuring you own your own content In my ongoing experiments with ai-assisted dev of tools I’d like, I’ve create Broadside […]
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Category: stuff
From discovery to collection to connection
Turning your Spotify playlist into a record collection, and why that could be really disruptive Quick summary I’ve long wanted to make it easy to […]
AI-enabled Hi-Fi adventures
AI-generated image of an amplifier being controlled via a web interface.
Data infrastructure as economic power
Data infrastructure as economic power
Those who set the rules and govern data flows, control the value
GDrive sync to local drive – critical bug
If you are a Google Drive user (I’m on a Mac Mini M4), then when you set up local sync, there is a potentially disastrous […]
Don’t let the mediocre be the enemy of the good
“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
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 (‘pi-fi’)
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?
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
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?
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’, and, given the .net domain, for ‘networking in a digital generation’ (hence dgen.net) The double […]
“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 […]