Binary Dust …
Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
Author: Gavin
RIP Dr David Fleming
A tragic and untimely loss. David is still a huge inspiration, his thinking, consideration and actions have touched so many people. I am glad we […]
Energy transformation is in the hands of the many
Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and “Hero for the Green Century” in One of His Final Interviews [emphasis mine] “HERMANN […]
Webcasting radio = innovation
A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station I’ve helped with streaming that’s […]
Streaming the smart grid
While mixing up a number of metaphots here, I’m thinking that RTSP and multicast would be very good mechanisms to support smart grid/smart meter infrastructure. […]
Periodicity
Building on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation->decentralisation technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | […]
Data is not binary
Science, data, internet, ontology, work and non-work themes converging – my post on O’Reilly Radar, reposted below Why open data requires credibility and transparency. by […]
Fixing paths when moving wordpress
Keywords: WordPress, HostPapa, managed hosting, image upload, fix, migration I recently moved a friend’s blog to a managed (virtual) hosting solution (hostPapa in this case) […]
Obsfuscation as a method of closed data
Things wrong with Companies House Crown Copyright data disclosure (which allows free copying) Get the DVD rom of the data – SIGH £30 for a […]
a bit more than toothache
<not for the squemish…> I consider myself to have a high tolerance (albeit a low threshold) for pain: I can usually accept it and work […]
Δten / Δ10 / delta10
Many late night discussions over the last year from FOWA, IT@Cork, eTech, Green:net to Geekyoto, and with the AMEE team have led me to think […]
Possible futures?
Pick a future?
Age of Stupid
Official website: http://www.spannerfilms.net/films/ageofstupid Watch it here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/screening/pp/london_vue_acton
A Climate of Polarisation
(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate change debate. There are, however, […]
The Climate Change Act
Below are some highlights from a great summary on the 2degrees site (which requires registration and I’d recommend if you want to get involved). I’m […]
Soundcloud Terms – more rights fuzziness
I’ve been a SoundCloud member since Feb 2008. My most recent login threw up a “we have new T+Cs” message with no option to continue […]
Virtual conferencing at HEAD conference
I presented at <head> at the London Hub (in person) on Friday, and today online (from home). I wanted to capture some of my thoughts […]
Cape Farewell
Cape Farewell sets off today with a slightly different crew to norml; including Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstall, Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many other remarkable […]
Sea ice – update (sept 2008)
(source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/) The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of […]
Can’t everyone define the future?
At least once a year I refer someone I meet to Danny’s superb piece on Wired UK. I wanted to write about this now, partly […]
The Great Global Warming Swindle swindle
Further to the outcry at the time, this weekend The Guardian reports; “Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film” “Channel 4 misrepresented some […]
Delia Derbyshire does it again
As if she needed to leave a greater legacy, a tape recovered from her attic 7 years ago after she passed away resets the “baseline” […]
Cloudcast :: a next step in the evolution of broadcast
At last, I think the nature of [AV] transmission is beginning to reveal itself. Do we need a new term? Probably – many other terms […]
Fundamental UK science under threat
The Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK has managed to create a terrible situation which could destroy fundamental research across the country. This […]
Acoustic Cosmology at Interesting 2008
Interesting2008 lived up to its name today. I gave a rather rapid (7 minute!) summary of Acoustic Cosmology. As a few people mentioned afterwards that […]
Dopplr do it again
Lovely stuff.
Rest in peace
STEAD James, age 107 (b. 1901), passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday 8th June 2008 on his beloved Isle of Arran. Loving father […]
Food, population, climate, trade
As the UN sets out its food crisis measures, and setting aside the climate change, population growth and other globalisation issues, this image caught my […]
Remarkable insights
The Long Now essay by Daniel Hillis on “Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine” contains some fantastic, inspiring nuggets, which I couldn’t resist quoting from […]
Not at all pleased about this…
Blogs are very useful to gratuitously vent one’s disappointments out into the Ether… Dear Bicycle Thieves, As a thief you’ll never consider that you are […]
Quite pleased about this…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ For (mostly my own) reference, here’s a scan of the printed version Thanks to Wendy.
Dopplr and PMOG
Some people are too clever by half. (to the dopplr, batbit) Flying with radar, gaming trashes the internet, passively.
Uptime
The core of dgen, 30th April, 22:54:19 up 370 days. #reboot complete A bit like my brain feels.
Ulya at the National Gallery
For those interested in fine art, my friend and long-term collaborator, Ulya Gumeniuk, will be at the National Gallery (Room 21) throughout April and May […]
Sea ice – how well is it recovering?
We’re losing 44,000 square kilometers (17,000 square miles) of ice per year in winter (March-to-March). Last year, we watched the lowest ever sea ice measurement […]
Carbon target is a guaranteed catastrophe
“Carbon target is a guaranteed catastrophe” This was the headline on the front page of The Guardian today. “If you leave us at 450ppm for […]
Play me, play you
Billboard says “CBS Radio and Last.fm, both owned by CBS Corp, have teamed up for closer collaboration on their respective radio initiatives. Under the agreement, […]
GWP vs GWP vs GWP
Interesting coincidence of acronyms: Gross World Product vs Global Warming Potential vs Global Water Partnership
Convergence
Interesting convergences: http://www.opendemocracy.net/…/global_threat_multiplier “…calls for an integrated response to climate change and the wealth-poverty divide.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/20/freeourdata.politics “A government study has finally acknowledged that making data […]
RIP Arthur C. Clarke
Sad news today. Clarke‘s three laws; 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he […]
Library of Congress on Flickr
This is very promising – the Library of Congress is starting to add its archives to Flickr “The real magic comes when the power of […]
Solitary / Human Tamagochi
I was hoping that I was being ridiculous when creating the “ultimate reality TV show format” – Human Tamagochi – in 2001… but apparently Fox […]
Amazing video site
This is great (GB) || awesome (US); “PAD.MA is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire […]
Speaking at ETech and SXSW
AMEE is in the USA (California and Texas) from 2nd – 13th March. I’m presenting at 1) ETech talk (8:45am Thursday, 6th March 2008, Marina […]
CI shortlisted for “Distributor of the Year”
CI (of which I’m a Director) has been shortlisted for the Music Week Award “Distributor of the Year”. It’s a giant shift in perception that […]
Our instinct to work as a group
From TED Talks: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth […]
Crazy week
Set course for 2008…. I’ve blanked out the specifics, but each blue box is a meeting… it’s going to be a busy year.
EDF rewards customers for using less fuel
EDF are providing bonus schemes to customers if they provide easier access to their data (fuel consumption), and then additional bonuses if they reduce consumption. […]
Arctic could be “Ice Free” in 5 years
“latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.” [BBC] This is following the trends of most of […]
Google has launched an AMEE-based gadget
I’m obviously very, very happy about this. When we first began our AMEE journey, we thought it would be perfect if we could get buy […]
Web 0.0 – the zero-energy web?
Just an idea… Web 0.0 — the zero-emission Internet? The zero-energy web. The zero-emission Internet. The zero-net. The net-zero web. “I go all the way […]
Sea ice – loss rate increasing again this month
Further to my last summary on the lowest ever sea ice measurement, things are not getting any better; (source: http://nsidc.org/) “Compared to conditions cited in […]
Jodrell Bank, 50 years on …
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jodrell Bank. Today is also a landmark day for Jodrell Bank – the whole science team are moving […]
Sea ice – lowest ever measured
On 17th Aug 2007, Arctic sea ice surpassed the previous single-day (absolute minimum) record for the lowest extent ever measured by satellite. NSIDC is now […]
BBC iPlayer – strategic errors
I’ve now had a chance to download, try and then, unfortunately un-install the BBC iPlayer. There’s already a lot of commentary about the use of […]
Energy consumption debunktion
Kind of what you’d expect from the Media, but it’s still saddening to see. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece .. it’s like much of the climate change backlash and […]
BBC iPlayer
As we near the launch there are some great pieces starting to hit the wire… Currybet start with this great set of predictions, of which […]
MySociety win New Statesman awards (again)
More congrat’s to MySociety on their continuous setting of the bar on social engagement – this is the 3rd year they’ve won the Civic Society […]
Level3 acquires Servecast for £22m
I sold my streaming media company, Tornado, to Servecast in 2003 in a cash deal. At the time Tornado had doubled its revenues year-on-year since […]
Petrol consumption
Courtesy of The Economist (click for hi-res). The USA is the number one for petrol consumption at just under 1.4 billion liters a day.
Live Earth
Live Earth is live. I’m wondering what it’d be like if it’d been held by Global Cool instead of Al Gore… my weekend would certainly […]
Secret Bush Campaign To Deny Global Warming
Excerpt from Rolling Stone “… To direct the White House’s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the […]
Google joins The Climate Group
Great news – Google commits to go Carbon Neutral by 2008 – a very aggressive timeframe indeed. “This is just a start,” Eric Schmidt, chairman […]
Government launches Act On CO2 campaign with AMEE
Hopefully the last cross-post between the AMEE blog and this one… it’s launching this week. AMEE Press Area
AMEE blog now live
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GLA takes bold steps on climate change
This is great, another “hat’s off” to the Climate Group, and the Greater London Authority. DIY Planet Repairs is a public information campaign calling on […]
Fantastic visualisations
This is a great set of visualisations – would be great to see the originals (which are 10 foot wide) http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7 For example, “Depicts 11,000 […]
U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal
As reported by the Washington Post “President Bush has consistently called for the development of advanced technology to help meet the country’s energy needs and […]
2 billion tonne iceberg on the move
From the BBC “… according to Dr Copland, the fact that such thick ice could split apart in less than an hour – as it […]
Amee – preview launch
We just launched Amee – a framework for collaborative campaigning on Climate Change. It’s an API on CO2 data and calculations, and for CO2 Footprint […]