Year: 2007
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Turning a Wispa Into a Shout
Ironically for a medium which is in many ways so accountable, data relating to the number of people who have actually looked at a particular website can still vary widely according to the source (and methodology) used. But there can be no doubt about what these numbers (from Comscore, which are as good as any,…
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The ‘E’ Trap
"E-mail now causes us the most problem in our working lives" This is a quote from Karen Renaud, Computer Scientist at the University of Glasgow. A study she’s just conducted, fitting monitors to 177 people’s computers, has revealed that people checked their e-mail up to 40 times an hour. Yes, 40. One third were stressed…
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Who’s the Funny Looking Bloke in the Corner?
Look who’s popped up on Kevin Robert’s blog. That dodgy goatee gets everywhere…
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Tony Wilson
Every now and then we all have flashbulb memories – the kind of memory laid down in photographic detail during a personally significant event. Like most people, my own flashbulb memories mostly relate to shocking events of international importance. But there are some, like the first time I saw a Jackson Pollock painting up close,…
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I’m taking a mini blogging holiday but only for a week so normal service will be resumed before you know it. Have a great week. Image courtesy
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Erm…
I should like to point out that I have never read/rated anything by Izaskun Arretxe. Nor am I particularly interested in primary school poetry from the West Midlands (doubtless good as it is). Although I was intrigued enough by the name to go and found out what he/she had written. Perhaps this is a whole…
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Art 2.0
This, I think, is a great use of Flickr. Tate Britain has launched an initiative to extend their How We Are photography project (a look at the ‘journey of British Photography’) into something called How We Are Now (a contemporary look at British life). They have invited the great British public to submit photographs of…
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Learning to Love Uncertainty
We live in a world that loves certainty. We strive for it, value it, claim we have it when often we don’t. Some theorists used to believe that the foundations of fact and objectivity on which science appear to be based meant that it had all the answers. Science produced knowledge, but as concepts such…
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In the Woods
Short and charming animated film which uses rotoscoping – a technique in which an animator has traced over live-action film movement, frame by frame.