OKMYWAY
Posted on | December 29, 2009 | No Comments
Well, not posted for ages. Been playing too much with Facebook. Initially this was to get to know it better for the new app we were working on but after a while it got a bit hooked.
The app however is now ready for testing and is available at http://apps.facebook.com/okmyway/ with the fan page at http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=279702080636
Will be looking for some feedback and thought from folks trying this out and will be posting updates here and on the fan page.
Here’s to 2010
John Cooper Clarke - just brilliant
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
best comment on this was that he really should be poet laureate.
OkMyWay ready for testing
Posted on | July 13, 2009 | No Comments
After a long incubation our new site for route creation and travel planning is starting to take shape. The beta is live at okmyway.com and if you want to have a look at what a route looks like check out here:
Deptford to Brighton
Glasgow to New Jersey
We have huge plans for expansion and this early beta to test core functionality is just the start.
At the moment you can:
- Create a route for your own personal journey. This can include any travel type from bus or car to walk or cycle.
- Search for a route that you have created already or that may have been created by another OkMyWay user.
two animations
Posted on | June 11, 2009 | No Comments
how long did these take to make or prepare these?
This first one is a guy with too many post-its and too much time. Amazing to think of sticking each one to the wall for each frame.
This second one is by a bunch of students who played ’snake’ by turning on and off lights in their block of flats. This must have been done with computer operated lights?
Pain in any language
Posted on | June 10, 2009 | No Comments
Something about this last track that Billy Mackenzie ever released that is so dated and yet still sounds great. (Audio only and vocals don’t come in ’til about 1.30). Poor guy never wanted to be a star, just loved singing.
Transcopyright Engine… maybe time is finally here
Posted on | May 28, 2009 | No Comments
I have worked in music copyright for over 25 years and I was recently reminded about an old paper from Ted Nelson on his idea for a Transcopyright Engine. Essentially it says that there would only ever be one copy of any copyright work and people would have a licence to access that copy. Given this was proposed about 20 years ago it was purely conceptual, or should have been but there’s a tale, perhaps apocryphal, that he blew huge amounts of money on the first 5Gb drive thinking this would solve the storage problems. As we know, Mr Nelson can be a bit flaky at times as many smart folk are, but I just looked this up and it’s still going as part of his Xanadu project and more interestingly he has brought Lessig into the frame to learn from Creative Commons. There’s a summary of it at http://transcopyright.org/. Given the ongoing push to the edge of network and network computers perhaps Ted was right?
Sadly my own project (for a Licensed Copyright mark that would be an active identifier, such as DOI, back to a contract licence database) that I kicked off for the UK record industry did not get moving which is a real shame. Creative commons is great for giving away for free but the problem with copyright is not the law, it’s communicating with the copyright owner (my mantra I know). Piracy of the future will be breach of licence rather than no licence at all so if the industry can’t even manage things just now then it will only get worse.
The alternative to this poor government…
Posted on | May 27, 2009 | No Comments
… must be better of course. I’m not usually political but it has to be raised that the UK Tories are saying the answers to the recessions come from a failed economist that was even fired by Nixon.
Good summary of thjis in today’s Independent
extract…
‘…two weeks ago, Cameron, when asked about whether the government’s proposals to increase taxes on the richest one percent would raise more money for the Treasury replied, “It’s a very difficult calculation about where we are on the Laffer Curve… We have to put this [top rate of tax] in a queue of things we would want to get rid of… and I’m always interested in topping up my study of Laffer.”
To most people, this sounds like gibberish. Who is this “Laffer” who Cameron is turning to as the measure of whether tax policy works?
Arthur Laffer is an economist who was fired from the Nixon administration in disgrace and went on to invent a false economic theory. He was picked out by the Watergate-wet Richard Nixon when he made a prediction about economic growth that was way ahead of every other economist. Nixon put it into every speech – until it was revealed that, while other economists had used thousands of variables to arrived at their predictions, Laffer had used just four – and got it totally wrong. He was fired, and that should have been the end of him.
But Laffer was befriended by Dick Cheney, and in 1974 they invented an economic theory on the back of a cocktail napkin – literally…’
I know the current political leaders are failing on so many levels but that does not always mean the alternative is better.
We need more of this…
Posted on | May 27, 2009 | No Comments
The presentation is over the top and for some strange reason, dated. Yet the content is totally now and we need to be so much more aware- full stop.
Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets- yes, yes, yes, yes
Posted on | May 21, 2009 | No Comments
Dear Santa: I may be too old but it is nearly a toy?
cool when it works…
Posted on | May 21, 2009 | No Comments
I wonder if he found out how to do this by accident.