Karlin Lillington’s weblog on whatever comes to mind
Feb 27 2009
I’ve just put the new podcast up, a recording of a talk and Q&A session with Joe Rospars, the man behind Barack Obama’s phenomenally successful use of Web 2.0 technologies in his presidential campaign and in particular, on his campaign website, barackobama.com. Rospars was in Dublin on Wednesday for the launch of Fianna Fail’s new [...]
Feb 26 2009
Wow. Very cool. Verrrrrrry fast. I like it. Like the “Top Sites” display and nice little zoom in feature — helpful to eyes that have a harder time reading very tiny print compared to days of yore. “Mail contents of this page” — love that. I use Firefox and Safari about equally, but this beta [...]
Comments Off
Feb 25 2009
I have blog archives going back years and years — to early 2002 on Radio Userland. I’d like to pull those archives into this blog, or let them stand alone, and have the folders… but am not sure on the best way to do this. When I transferred over to Wordpress the only way to [...]
Feb 25 2009
Believe it or not but Fianna Fail has President Obama’s new media director, Joe Rospars, and his Blue State Digital company focusing on a revamp of their party website. The new website launches later this evening, and I’m not clear on whether it will incorporate these new elements or if they are to come in [...]
Feb 25 2009
The Guardian has an extraordinary and depressing lead story on the front page today. In it, Sir David Ormond, the former head of security and intelligence at Whitehall, outlines his view that the privacy of the masses must be sacrificed for greater security against terrorism and that we will all just have to get used to huge [...]
Comments Off
Feb 23 2009
BRADENTON, FL. – A 19-year-old man is arrested after stealing a laptop computer so he could check his Facebook page online.According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, at around 4:45 Gary Lyman was inside Starbucks on the 5500 block of Factory Shops Blvd.
Lyman was using his laptop computer when 19-year-old Corey Kinney approached him and [...]
Feb 21 2009
Another fine link courtesy of Good Morning Silicon Valley.
Comments Off
Feb 20 2009
The latest Technoculture podcast is available today, here. This week, I talk to Prof Anthony Dunne, head of Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Anthony Dunne is also a partner in provocative and challenging design firm Dunne and Raby, which produces speculative future design scenarios around existing or possible technologies. These are [...]
Feb 15 2009
I popped into Penney’s on O’Connell Street to pick up some items and was thrilled to find these Pacman socks in the ladies socks section. Only €2.50 — and that includes the stripy pair as well! What a recession-proof geek bargain!
My only regret was not buying a second pair — think I’ll have to [...]
Comments Off
Feb 14 2009
Let me count the ways… or rather let PC World, in a rather amusing column. I like reason 2:
The store will have six different entrances: Starter, Basic, Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. While all six doors will lead into the same store, the Ultimate door requires a fee of $100 for no apparent reason.
And also [...]
Feb 13 2009
When it comes to online coolness, the Queen has shown she can have the last laugh. Even as businesses and media companies struggle with new technology and creating an interesting, useful and appealing website, Britain’s Queen Liz has relaunched a laudable effort that includes links to the Royal Family YouTube channel and has a helpful [...]
Comments Off
Feb 11 2009
I’ve posted my story on this leaked bill below, but if anyone is interested in some light reading, Digital Rights Ireland has posted the full bill. Meanwhile, yesterday the European Court of Justice upheld data retention… sort of. It wasn’t really deciding on the substantive issue of retention but rather responding to a challenge as to how the EU [...]
Technoculture Podcasts Blog RSS feed