New role at the Open Data Institute
During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around the world. Decades since their […]
Author: Gavin
New record low for Arctic sea ice melt
I’ve been tracking Arctic sea ice melt for over 5 years – we now seem to have broken the 2007 record. There are a few week […]
NPG expands Linked Data Platform to over a quarter billion triples
This is good news: “Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements….The data is now […]
Energy Identity
[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets of data needed for carbon […]
ISEA 2012
I’ll be speaking at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque. Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse […]
Occupy & Climate Change: Hansen, Buffet, Chomsky
Two pieces really struck me today. I think we can expect to see this form of direct action increasing. The issues (control of resource, environmental […]
AMEE Makes Carbon Footprinting Easier and More Fun
via https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2012/amee-makes-carbon-footprinting-easier-and-more-fun/69781 At first glance, AMEE, a venture-backed UK company launched in 2008, looks like any other carbon tracking and management provider. But upon further investigation, it […]
Listen to the colliding “Antennae Galaxies”
A sneak preview of some of the work I’ll be presenting on Sunday. Below is a radio-image taken by ALMA of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding. […]
The utterance of a cosmological model?
“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. 2011 sees the fiftieth anniversary […]
Those are my stars…
Calling Virgin Galactic: “if we could get our political leaders to have a summit meeting in space, life on Earth would be markedly different” Alex […]
Educational biomes?
I’ve got some thoughts about a different way to create a distributed education. One I think could break through silo’s in our Psychogeography and Biogeography. […]
Binary Dust …
Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
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 […]