Waze to go
Just installed Waze, the social traffic app, to find out about the traffic jam outside my office before it was on any of the regular traffic outlets. The social internet is so cool, and Waze is one cool aspect of it.
Web influence
This bus shelter advert looks influenced by web layouts. Interesting turn around.
Powerpoint me
I have to do a PowerPoint presentation about myself. I have ten minutes and three slides. Should be plenty for a journey into my mind to explore the always-on connection to the internet.
So, I thought I’d put it on SlideShare, just because ‘You are what you share’.
Doing it the hard way
Spent the past few days downloading each individual page and image from a website in preparation for moving from Joomla to WordPress. It’s going to be a pretty big job, but hopefully if I’ve planned it right, got all the content I need and get all the 301’s set up, it should all go smoothly.
Multi-share shapshot
I’ve been thinking about some kind of ‘Multi-share’ service where you can update to all your social networks at once (which of course is doable with FB and TW integration), but also to be able to share what you are doing on other sites such as ‘I’m watching…’ on YouTube, ‘I’m working on…’ on GoggleDocs, ‘I’m reading…’ this blog, etc. It would provide a snapshot of your online activity at any given time. It would build up an online profile for you that would be constantly updating with your most visited sites, topics you are interested in, activities you do, etc. and it would do this automatically. This is obviously different from the kind of profile you have on Facebook which you make when you join and don’t update much expect for joining new groups. Maybe it could be an evolution for Facebook since they already integrate with Spotify, Newspapers, etc. and already have all the people. It would just mean Facebook working more closely with rival google for things like YouTube, but it would make for more interesting personal profiles.
My first Kindle is live
My first Kindle book ‘Remolition – The Interviews‘ is live on Amazon. It’s only had three downloads so far but as I was only expecting four, that’s pretty good.
I wonder what will be next…
Remolition on Kindle?
Yeah, that’s right. You can now get Remolition – The Interviews on your Kindle.
Now you can take Remolition with you everywhere, so you’ll never be without something mountainboardery to read. The Interviews includes chats with some of the best and most influential riders in the world, and you also get a bonus interview with the Remolition crew. Just head over to Amazon to download it and start reading. Enjoy.
Remolition – The Interviews
Fireside chats with some of the best mountainboarders in the world
Reviews
“I must be honest, I went into the purchase with very low expectations but I figured “what the hay” I’ve given one dollar bills to homeless people before, so why not throw one away for a chance to read the rants of of a bunch of british wheelie boarding nutjobs? Boy am I glad I did, suprisingly British English is easier on the eyes than it is on the ears and it turns out that those british nutjobs know quite a bit about the ol’ mountainboard and are jolly good blokes when not posting drunk on the surfingdirt forums. Easily the best dollar I ever spent.”
“There aren’t many books about mountainboarding. There are even less available electronically.
Buy this even if you only have a passing interest in mountainboarding – its a fun read and keeps your stoke gland primed & ready to go!!!”
Free speech
Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia was in Oxford yesterday at the launch of an Oxford project which aims to generate global debate about free speech. Along with Wikipedia’s blackout in protest of SOPA, which I don’t know enough about to comment, it seems the citizens of the internet are feeling the ground start to shake with rumble of tanks rolling into their territory. I guess it’s always the nature of government to want to control the people, and without a government for the internet, governments of countries will attempt to fill that gap and control the people on the internet within their geographic boundaries.
And then today, Megaupload and Megavideo have been shut down for piracy with the sites owners facing court and most likely jail. But I wonder what the charges will be against them? If it’s not paying tax on their earnings from the site, then that’s justifiable in my book. But it’s the piracy bit which is more messy. I think it comes down to a clash of world views. Virtual vs. real. Trying to apply the way the real world works to the online world is never going to succeed in any clear or satisfactory way.
I think this realisation is going to have to be one of the big things that comes out of the information age. The online world that we exist in as online citizens is to all intents and purposes a separate country from the geographic countries we live in, and as such has it’s own language, customs, cultures, currency. Not accepting this and dealing with people as if they are only physical entities, and not virtual ones too, is not only an out-dated way to consider a human being, but is also destined to fail because of that. Maybe the UN needs to look at and recognise the Human Rights of the virtual aspect of the citizens of the world.