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  • The Darjeeling Limited

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    Wes Anderson, one of my favourite directors, has his latest film premiering in a few weeks; The Darjeeling Limited is the story of three estranged brothers that journey across India together in an attempt to put aside their differences, following the death of their father. You can find HD trailers at the Quicktime site, as…

  • Bingley Music Live

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    Woot! Along with a couple of my favourite bands, The Charlatans and The Bluetones, my mate Paul’s band – The Good Die Young – are playing the Bingley Music Live festival this weekend at Myrtle Park in Bingley. I can’t make TGDY’s set during the day (my cousin’s wedding reception…!) but I’m gonna try catch…

  • Microblogging: Tiny Social Objects

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    Jaiku’s Jyri Engestrom‘s recent presentation at reboot 9.0 orients successful social networks around ‘social objects’ – such as Flickr’s photos, del.icio.us’ bookmarks and MySpace’s music and five principles for building such services… Define your {social} object. Define your verbs. Make your object sharable. Turn invitations into gifts. Charge the publishers not the spectators. All very…

  • Bat For Lashes: What’s A Girl To Do?

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    Descended from an ancient dynasty of gravity-defying Pakistani squash players, Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes is kinda like a Björkian Goldfrappy Portishead. Haunting and poppy at the same time…the new single, What’s A Girl To Do, is this week’s iTunes free download and the video is a cool, eerie collision of ‘E.T. and Donnie…

  • Jetpacmanhattan

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    Earlier today, I got talking to Tom Scott about organising simultaneous BarCamp events in Leeds, York and Manchester next year…I could then jetpack across the Pennines after presenting a session in Leeds and re-run it in Manchester 🙂 Epiphany! Never mind Barcamps, why has no one run an alternate reality version of 8-bit classic Jetpac!…

  • Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0

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    The emergence of web culture continues in the North of England with next week’s inaugural Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 conference, hosted by the University of York and focusing largely on the emerging culture around social media and its implications for the social sciences. MIT’s Web Science Research Initiative, augmented by the participation…

  • Gelato CMS

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    I’ve just spent the afternoon tinkering with Gelato CMS, a tumblogging application, kinda like an open source version of Tumblr. Apart from WordPress, I haven’t really played around much with installable web apps, so I’m patting myself on the back for successfully installing Gelato on MAMP! Gelato’s neat – as a simple tumblelog for sharing…

  • Tarek Atrissi Design

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    I was recently asked to help a client develop an Arabic language edition of their web product. They have strong brand with a great contemporary aesthetic and some Web 2.0 flava, but there is a dearth of contemporary Arabic typefaces that would enable their brand to retain its design DNA once translated. Aside from Saad…

  • Norman @ Telecom TV

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    My previous boss and mentor, Norman Lewis (recently appointed at Chief Strategy Officer for Wireless Grids) was recently interviewed as part of a panel session for Telecom TV…

  • iTunes Gets Friendly?

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    I always wondered why Apple never added Last.fm-like social features directly to the iTunes user community – a world which seems really very closed. However, it seems Apple’s finally getting friendly with the launch of a bunch of iTunes Widgets to show off your iTunes purchases, reviews or favorite artists. I guess it won’t be…