May 2009
7 posts
nebulae
Well it’s nearly half past ten in the evening and I’ve just been wandering around in my garden after a wonderful three day break. I could smell that kind of ozone, that ionic pressure in the air before a storm and that silence, the birds went deadly silent. There was a strange light, I’m sure most of it caused by Gatwick Airport, an orange strip along the horizon. The clouds were...
lester bangs on funhouse
Like most authentic originals, the Stooges have endured more than their share of abuse, derision, critical condescension and even outright hostility. Their stage act is good copy but easy grist for instant wag putdowns. At first glance their music appears to be so simple that it seems like anyone with rudimentary training should be able to play it (that so few can produce any reasonable facsimile,...
summertime...
The fields of Britain are alive with soft light and the networked chatter of nesting birds.We live in a small cottage nestled in the countryside and it is a great pleasure to watch the birds that nest under our eaves flying back and forth, worm-hunting, nest-building.
I too, and worm-hunting. Looking for juicy media, fat projects, writhing unformed and blind in the dirt. I too, am nest-building,...
it's alive!
…and relax.
A week of late nights and the first phase of boobase is done bar the finer design points. Boobase.com is alive! So - built on the audioboo platform, boobase allows you to filter, search and organise the sonic treasury of audioboo in a way that isn’t possible on the site. Ditto for the iphone - we still need to address some cosmetic issues but those facilities are there...
boogle to boobase
Boo hoo hoo - looks like we can’t have boogle so our audioboo toolkit has been rechristened boobase. Many a fraught hour was spent last night wrestling with ssh, rsa keys, git, rails and heroku but we managed to deploy boobase into the cloud, and as soon as the domain purchas has been finalised boobase will exist as a proud new entity and hopefully help define the sonic web.
In the...
boogle it!
Coding goggles on, we have spent the last week or so building a little toolkit that plugs into everyone’s favourite audiomicro service, audioboo. Boogle is a site that lets you access pre-defined streams and search by tag and then hit links to play the boo inline in a map. It also lets you see what trending terms on twitter are also being tagged on audioboo and access that stream. All...
48 hours in denmark
Well, voting has now closed over at 48hoursindenmark so let’s see what happens. We offer our full and unbridled support to the winner if that doesn’t happen to be us and will consume their media like a jackal on steroids! Denmark is about to be hit by the social media virus!
I have learned a lot of lessons during the process. The most important is really feeling how ego can be a...