The Bleeding Edge of Technology

Finding blogs with Blogcode

2006-02-14T14:12:00.000Z

I've been playing with Blogcode.com.

It's an interesting idea, a tool that allows collaborative review (and then comparison) of blogs. I've used it to add basic reviews of my sites - they encourage multiple reviews from different people, so feel free to add your impressions of this blog!

Apparently the most similar blog to this one is currently Robert Scoble's...

Technorati Tags: blogs, blogging, tools

Testing Bleezer

2006-01-17T21:49:00.000Z

A quick post to try out Bleezer, a new Java-based blogging tool.

Technorati: bleezer blogging tools
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Flocking

2005-10-21T10:06:00.000Z

Flock, a Firefox variant for working with blogs and social bookmarking services is now available as a developer preview. We heard a lot of buzz about it when we met up with the folks from varios blog search companies in September.

Now to see if it meets the hype.

I've configured it to work with my main two blogs on two different services. It's relatively easy - as long as your blog host supports ATOM, and you know the URI of the ATOM API for your blog.

You can download a build here if you want to give it a spin.

Testing Semagic Blogger support

2005-10-01T13:24:00.000Z

Just testing the Blogger support in my blogging tool of choice, Semagic, before launching my new Blogger hosted blog.

A New IT World: Coming soon.

"The world of enterprise IT is changing - from server to desktop and everywhere in between.

You've heard the buzzwords: service architectures, loosely coupled applications, virtualisation, serialisation, network storage, network processing. These are just some of the ways in which the way we do IT are changing - a change that will have as much effect on the way businesses work as the arrival of the desktop PC."

New Blog Homes

2005-07-31T23:44:00.000Z

It's been a while since we posted anything here - and that's because we're currently blogging (rather a lot) elsewhere...

Simon is blogging at www.simonbisson.co.uk and Mary is at marypcb.livejournal.com.

See you there!

Extreme Gadgetry

2001-05-16T15:41:00.000Z

Silverman's Secure Online Store for those extreme gadgets (and so I don't lose the URL)

New Homes For Old Phones

2001-05-14T14:12:00.000Z

I often wonder what to do with old kit, and mobile phones in particular are hugely expensive to manufacture, buy and use but have little resale value. Here's a great idea: Great Ormond Street Hospital is asking people to donate their unwanted mobile phones to help children with hearing problems. Mobile phones will be recycled by West One Technology for resale in developing
countries. For every mobile phone collected through the GOSH Phone Raising scheme, the hospital will receive up to £5 to purchase the latest equipment for the Audiology Department. Details at http://www.phones4gosh.com/

Earthrise

2001-03-20T15:40:00.000Z

SPACE.com Earthrise See this fragile world from a little further away; a hundred thousand astronauts' photos.

Search Engine Poetry

2001-03-19T12:22:00.000Z

Mary: I started off searching the Web for a carpet fitter who could come and show me samples for the hall, but along the way I discovered a new game; search engine poetry. Google and some other search engines show you the fragments of text that have produced the match with your search terms, and even omitting those from porn sites where words like carpet are mixed in with a trail of 'hot words' so they'll appear in innocuous searches, there's some stunningly surreal prose appearing from this.

... so chaotic before leaving to London ths time.... well ... internet cafe
in Putney (and no David) ... panther, a magic carpet and an angel ... I think they sample the
Soft Cell ...

... were able to sample 'Injura' for the ... which closely resembles carpet
underlay. Generally Injura ... Arriving back in London, the weather ...
arrived in Putney. We hadn't ...

Tiny teens dividing carpet nyphomanics
mexico instant in london are the affiliate ...

for job sample ... to has shows carpet monster not shows ...
... in dark wood, a chinese carpet, beautifully coloured lay on the ... me. I
lived in London.

All this was after he ... He had a bicycle shop in Putney." She added to ...
... 52 Festive Road, Putney apparently where creator ...
show around South London in the last ...
visit to the shop.

Hunter.
Nothing ... Frogman. Magic Carpet Bloke.
Astronaut ...

At this point I dived into the Mr Benn Web sites and discovered that: only 13 episodes of Mr. Benn were ever made, that this narrative can be seen as a rejection of the commerce environment which keeps Mr. Benn from entering into the rest of society, that the Magic Shopkeeper is a character who has been printed on t-shirts more than most other Seventies animated television characters.

Mr Benn Case Study

Pleasantly surreal...

China Online

2001-01-01T11:52:00.000Z

One of the best of the current crop of British sf and fantasy writers is China Miéville. His Perdido Street Station is a wonderfully dark story in the vein of Ian MacDonald's Desolation Road and of M. John Harrison's Viriconium series. The Register has just published one of his short stories: An End To Hunger. Enjoy.

Baldwin's Bruno

2000-12-28T19:53:00.000Z

One of the best online comics around, and definitely one of our favourites is Christopher Baldwin's Bruno. Give it a visit today!

Read Me, Start Me

2000-12-26T18:10:00.000Z

Welcome to www.sandm.co.uk's Blog. It's intended to be an infrequently - or frequently (depending on how we feel) - updated list of thoughts, links and what-nots from the online lives of Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe...