this morning's journey to work...

forgot to pick up my book ('Frankie and Stankie' - nearly finished; and it's just got better and better - she's a great writer...) as i sneaked out this morning, so it was on with the ipod, which is currently a bit out of date ith the music i've recently bought. i fell back on two favorites - and thought i'd mention here (in a beef-out-my-profile way) they're greatness... U2's War and Nivana's Nevermind are classics it's clear - and War is rapidly becoming my favorite album... i simply can't find anything i don't like about it, apart from having heard New Years Day a few too many times in my life.

Royal Society Digital Archive visualization

Seems like someone has taken our archive and transformed the data into a number of interesting visualizations: author and word distributions and a combination of these. Leads to some interesting features, but most of all gives one a different perspective on this huge archive.

I wasn't aware of this pet-project until now, but it appeared online on 1 December 2006. And was promoted through information aestethics on 1 February 2007. If you're reading this (and from my profile, I can be pretty certain no one is!) and have a perspective, I'd be interested to hear it.

final version of web 2.0 video...

this is apparently the final version of the web2.0 vid i posted back in feb ... is there much difference?

and this was the vid the first version was in response to...

i noticed bob ducharme as blogged on this too...

connotea

while i'm praising nature, why not carry on and give them their dues for another (already proven massively successful) advancement...

me: http://www.connotea.org/user/matthewll

nature network

i think this is a really good start down a road we will all travel to keep our audience...

me: http://network.nature.com/profile/U2BB0F395

don't miss Carter

don't miss 'Carter beat the devil' by Glen David Gold. it's surely one of the most enjoyable reads i've had in a fair while. i'm a sucker for historical fiction, and this is a really fine example of taking the historical thread and weaving a great story - so well told - around it.

now moved on to Barbara Trapido's 'Frankie and Stankie', which is somewhat of a slow burner; but now i'm into it, it's getting better and better. the history of South Africa's there for the taking, but cleverly intertwined with a child's perspective and how it affects her. still reading...

Publishing 2.0 conference on 25 April 2007

this looks a must for anyone in my line of business... and even though it's still just me reading my blog, it doesn't hurt me linking to it.

excellent video on the future of education and the web