As you can see, I’m running another experiment: recording the websites I find in del.icio.us and publishing a daily collection here. Just as with the daily Twitter updates, though, the list of random pieces changes the character of the site. And the experimental system provided by del.icio.us doesn’t let me format the posts — the most annoying aspects for me being the last of capital-L in the headline and not being able to format the entries. I may take up Brad Kellet‘s offer to use his script instead.
Links for 2008-03-13
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OK,he’s my other half but this i still an interesting photoblog.
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This is the method I’ll be using to post daily link digests. I’ll comment upon it in due course.
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This is MY website. I reckon I should include it eh?
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Tim Dunlop was an early and popular Australian blogger. He was absorbed into the Murdoch borg, but he reads my blog so he must be good.
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One of the best retro-futurism blogs I’m stumbled across.
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An interesting-looking live blogging tool. They says it’s “free for now”, so I’m not impressed with the drug dealer bait’n’switch tactic.
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Official website for the Australia 2020 Summit to be held 19-20 April 2008.
Twitter updates for 2008-03-13
- @bck It’s illegal for employers to monitor employees’ private communication, so what happens when private communications are public? #
- Off to brunch on Enmore Road, AFK. #
- Note to Ticketmaster: If it’s a routine list of events you can buy tickets to, sent at the same time every week, then it’s not an "alert". #
- @SilkCharm From Saudi, please bring a map of the public transport system, if they have one. #
- Still plodding thru the "paperwork". Not really paying attention to anything else. It is not exciting, however. #
- Mac vs PC choice is irrational: a good start to a sensible debate! http://tinyurl.com/3736qa #
- Starting to explore del.icio.us … unless someone can think of something better for me to do tonight. #
- @garthk Glad to be of service! Miro TV looks like a goodly thing. RSS and BitTorrent-capable, VLC the under hood, FOSS goodness throughout. #
- @bck Ta for the offer of your del.icio.us script, but will use this method as an experiment first. http://tinyurl.com/ec7gw #
- @bck Agreed, customisation would be nice, but hey I’ll see how I go with this for now because it was a no-brainer. #
- I’m not happy with today’s blog posts. I feel very uninspired. So does half the city, I’m told. #
- @duncanriley Interesting. Channel 10 is shit digital reception for us too, in Sydney, tho all channels are dodgy here in Enmore. #
69 Blankets
’Pong has just published a lovely photo series, 69 Blankets, documenting the diversity of picnic blankets at Mardi Gras Fair Day the other weekend. See them all as a slideshow with music.
The New 7 Deadly Sins
One of the Pope’s groupies came up with a new version of the 7 deadly sins. I haven’t bothered chasing this story ‘cos it seems like such a wank, but there’s some interesting commentary from friend and colleague Zern Liew and Murdochland blogger Tim Dunlop [waves].
Australia 2020 News, 13 March 2008
I wonder if Australia’s Jewish communities will be suitably placated by having their own kosher pre-summit summit on 14 April, since the main Australia 2020 Summit on 19-20 April clashed with Passover?
Meanwhile, the process of selecting the 1000 “best and brightest” (minus the politically-handy pre-selections) started yesterday. There’s “more than 10,000 applications” to deal with — though previously the figure was 7000+ so who knows who to believe.
[Summit vice-chairman] Professor [Glyn] Davis met Mr Rudd on Tuesday to review progress for the huge gathering. A team, including Victorian public servants and some of Professor Davis’ staff, is working on the agenda, while a Queensland bureaucrat is helping with background material for the summiteers.
Mind you:
The committee also has lists of possible summiteers sent in by the public and CVs that are not accompanied by formal applications.
I’d have thought that being unable to follow the published nomination process would automatically exclude you from being Australia’s “best and brightest”.
It’s sounding like we’ll know the list of 1000 early next week.