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Tu viens juste d'avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans», lui disait-il. «Tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Récemment je suis retombé amoureux de toi une nouvelle fois et je porte de nouveau en moi un vide débordant que ne comble que ton corps serré contre le mien...
September 2007 Archives
Complete Video of the SIPA-World Leaders Forum with the President of Iran from the Columbia World Leaders Forum
Apparently the campus got pretty heated but ultimately everyone did the right thing...
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thanks to Lynetter (again)
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mmmm more niceness from the folk who are nae evil...
I wrote a little brain-dump on decommodification this morning and have just now come across tom at interesting (different tom) a video from Russell Davies Interesting 2007 conference.
Tom talks about pipes (or tubes) and starts off his presentation with the example of the tobacco infrastructure, the incredible world of resources and infrastructure required for you to smoke a cigarette...
Which kinda ties-in with the aforementioned telecoms operator's pipes and their relationship to value co-creation...
No conclusions as of yet, but the video is nice, so go watch it:-)
What's that Dug? A new-year's prediction in September? Shurly shome mistake... Well, this one just popped into my brain so I thought I'd put it down on paper. I think 2008 will be the year of decommodification. The word exists already and has a few definitions. I'd like to propose a new one.
Decommodification The process by which value is re-infused into what those in the know in the telecoms industry call "pipes" as in "Vodafone is just a leaser of pipes".
The executives you'll hear using this phrase will be using it in the context of trying to find ways for the business to add value. If pipes are 'just' a commodity and the money is in what travels through those pipes then the telecoms operation needs to invest in building tools and services it can sell (like webmail applications or photo-sharing apps).
I think 2008 will see telco operators realise that the kids are creating the apps they need themselves, but what Ben Trott, Chris Messina, Katerina Fake, Rasmus Lerdorf or even today's darling Mark Zuckerberg can't do is provide ubiquitous, pervasive, reliable, cheap and universal connectivity to planet earth.
I know it's a lot less glamourous than making groovy stuff but there is one seriously big place in heaven for the operator who becomes the world's Good Connectivity Partner.
Well, that's what I was thinking anyway...
Phil asks an interesting question: open source experience design?
This just in via twitter+gtalk:
twitter: bbcvideo: Hundreds of people in Peru are reported to be feeling sick after an object from space crashed to Earth. http://tinyurl.com/2kp6er
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browser-based Joost via the flash plugin (I always like to add that word "plugin" as we forget it is still a plugin and suffers from all the usual pluging problems, and that's without mentioning the versioning issues, I mean the number of simple flash mov
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more animated interface stuff - Compiz Fusion in this case. Good track by Manau.
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and the track from the compiz thing (Mais qui est La Belette ?)
Well, I cancelled my Quechup account two weeks ago. The interesting bit was that my gmail address book was spammed two days later. Now that is fucked up...
Anyways, I just wanted to mention that I've noticed that a bunch of services (Qloud, J!NX, thetrainline, Wordie to name a few) are sending account confirmation letters with cleartext passwords and I'm wondering if this is a growing trend?
Now I realise non ssh passwords are sort of pointless anyways (an .htaccess file is but a curtain or a screen I'm told) but still, this type of email gives sniffers access to a validated email address, your name, your alias and a chosen password. That has to be bad.
If you're gonna send email confirmations, generate a random password and get me to change it on first login ok?
If Nokia were running the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, New Orleans would be 20 feet above sea level by now.
I've not read Michael Mace before but with a quote like that he's being added to my feedreader:-)
Mobile Opportunity: The war between Nokia and Apple (thanks phil)
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welovelocal.com except it looks like no one in the neighbourhoud has been to the airport yet...
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Interesting snippet from Google re ARIA
As I sit here in the middle of the night orchestrating the organised sacrifice of my current project's design quality and integrity on the altar of technocratic mismanagement I am amazed and confused, once again, at how a large organisation can structurally institutionalise mediocrity...
I am not a happy puppy:-(
I love this photograph for the Natural History Museum kids only sections (sorry about the image quality, snapped on a bus stop).
The portrait had to have been done in a massive black poly tunnel and considering the background is exposed to a stop more light than the foreground the dynamic range of the shot is astonishing. Information exists in the darkest shadows and none of the white fabric definition is lost on the sides of the hood (which are white on white after all). They should use this shot in lighting school.
Oh, and the art direction is lovely too;-)
...I have four fivers in my wallet. When was the last time anyone actually had one--let alone four--fivers in their wallet?!
