By mattr on June 22, 2008
Great article from the Independent on Sunday about how to act on social networks.
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By mattr on June 22, 2008
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (in english – with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly) is the fifth full length album from Sigur Ros and is released on 23rd June in the UK.
For the first time, they have drafted in some outside production talent and enlisted Flood (Depeche Mode, U2) the [...]
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By mattr on June 22, 2008
America – Please don’t let us down – the dark side of John McCain
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By mattr on June 21, 2008
Interesting article on interviewing at Microsoft, and comparing to Google
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By mattr on June 21, 2008
The media has been full of Coldplay in the last few weeks, as they release their album ‘Viva La Vida’ – and it’s not a bad album, well produced, excellently performed and pretty well written.
So, I watched the ‘Coldplay live at the BBC’ concert this week and listened to the concert from Brixton academy. [...]
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By mattr on June 21, 2008
Just spotted this over on Steve Clayton’s blog, a great implmentation of the Virtual Earth maps, using Deep Earth and Silverlight. The zooming capabilities of this map are fantastic, and the level of detail (take a look at the center of London for instance) is astonishing. I zoomed in to take a look at [...]
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By mattr on June 20, 2008
After finishing Devil May Care, I decided that I needed to read more of Sebastian Faulks work, so I plumped for ‘Engleby’ first. After finishing it late last night, I’m glad I did – it is an absolute corker of a book.
Engleby is the story of a man who wins scholarships to first a [...]
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By mattr on June 20, 2008
Great interview with Portishead from the Guardian
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By mattr on June 20, 2008
Do you use SMS to send messages to Twitter on the move? If so, you should probably check out TinyTwitter, which as the name suggests is a Twitter client with a tiny footprint that runs on Windows Mobile devices.
Big hat-tip to Jason Langridge for pointing this one out.
By the way – you can find me [...]
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By mattr on June 19, 2008
Wait for it! Wait for it! It’s not what you first think it will be…
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