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A technology-media-music party for your brain

Allow me, if you will, to pitch an idea to you; one I believe in and am excited by. I’ll give you my reasons and once you’ve read them do you promise me you’ll at least think about what I suggest?
Here’s the crux: If you’re a Twitter addict who loves the fast-paced discussions and news [...]


In recent months it’s become apparent that a lot of people find themselves overwhelmed by too much information.  Subscribe to too many RSS feeds and follow too many people of Twitter and FriendFeed and suddenly you find yourself struggling to keep up with what is mostly irrelevant nonsense.  Louis Gray wrote a commonsense post on [...]


Follow my Japanese adventure

I’m watching Sky News and they’ve just announced the second major earthquake in Japan in the space of a week.  Hopefully I’ll be okay as I’m heading there tomorrow for two weeks of traveling round the main island.  As per what I wrote in this post, look out for daily Twitter and Flickr updates (internet [...]


Increasing FriendFeed’s diversity

I’ve written previously about one of the benefits of using FriendFeed.  Beyond sharing your life with family and friends, though, it also allows you to discuss any items that you share there with all sorts of other people.  That creates a discussion that’s fast moving and anyone can be part of. Fantastic stuff!
As great as [...]


While I’m looking forward to keeping people up-to-date with my adventures in Japan via Friendfeed next month, it’s arguably much more difficult to keep people updated from the middle of a field at the Glastonbury Festival. After all, Japan may be thousands of miles away but it has 100% 3G coverage and loads of [...]


A month from tomorrow I’m setting off on what can only be described as “The Trip of a Lifetime”. I’ll be boarding my first ever long-haul flight and heading to Japan! I’ve wanted to visit the land of sushi and cheap electronics ever since I was about 13 and read Super Play, a [...]