Originally appeared on Kasabi’s Blog: This last weekend, I found myself wearing a lab coat, meeting people working on some of the most interesting projects on the web, while in the queue to an entirely free espresso bar. And, I kept seeing human-sized foxes walking about and dancing. I was fairly sure I needed to… Read More
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Media, Freedom, and the Web
Kasabi and Mozilla Festival
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 Tags: computing, http://blog.kasabi.com/2011/11/10/media-freedom-and-the-web, Kasabi, London, London,Greater London,United Kingdom, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, multi-media web tools
Category: Digital, Featured, Perspective No Comments
“You’ve had an accident on your bike,” a familiar voice gave me something I knew. “You’re in the hospital,” and the familiarity fled with being awake. A few more dreams, and I slowly recognised myself lying in bed, surrounded by scrubs and unfortunate people. I pushed myself upright, and oddly felt the mattress move beyond… Read More
Friday, June 24th, 2011 Tags: consultant, doctors, hospital, injury, lessons
Category: Featured, Life, Narrative, Perspective 6 Comments
The internet is full of information of dubious quality, and I have recently spent quite a bit of time trawling a particular subsection of this by trying to trace family information. I have found many lists of names, and I appear to be lucky that my maternal side seems to have been recorded doing things… Read More
Friday, April 29th, 2011 Tags: American folklore, Queen, Richard Payton Bailey, United Kingdom
Category: Featured, Life, Narrative, Perspective No Comments
The more I use it, the more conflicted I am about the iPad. It’s bright and renders images beautifully. I love the way designers are now taking this big screen into account when they produce apps like Pulse news reader and FryPaper. It’s really fun for showing photos to people. But—and there are so very… Read More
Friday, December 24th, 2010 Tags: Apple Inc., iPad, IPhone, tablet computer
Category: Digital, Featured, Perspective, review 3 Comments
Friends very often ask whether I feel myself to be American or whether I’m English yet; and I find I always stammer a bit, and hedge. Do I feel like an American? I don’t know. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Colorado, so you could say I’m definitely American. But it… Read More
Guest post by Stephen Leighton So who am I? My name is Stephen Leighton and I’m the owner and head roaster at Has Bean Coffee based in Stafford. Has Bean is an online retailer, roasting and selling fine specialty coffees from all around the world direct to home consumers. So, before I go into the… Read More
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Tags: Bolivia, coffee, Food and drink, online retailer, Specialty coffee, Stephen Leighton
Category: Coffee, Featured, Narrative 1Comment
I was asked on Formspring.me: “Do you think it’s possible for a religious politician to put aside the teachings of their religious institution, and make decisions purely on evidence and for the benefit of the population as a whole?” What follows is an edited version of the answer I gave there. My immediate reaction was… Read More
Sunday, September 19th, 2010 Tags: belief, Critical thinking, faith, Religion_Belief, religious politician, Spirituality, Thought
Category: Featured, Formspring, Perspective 2 Comments
Ebooks are doing rather well, with Amazon announcing them outselling their print counterparts in bestsellers lists. I’ve enjoyed using the Kindle app for various reasons including: Instant purchase/download (even Amazon Prime can take too long!) One device, not many books Reading in the dark (on the iPad, any way) Searching and smart(ish) bookmarking Now I’d… Read More
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, E-book, e-books, Kindle, Mass media, Publishing, Richard MacManus
Category: Digital, Featured No Comments
This is a podcast I recorded for Talis’ Nodalities series of talks. Because Facebook has recently made announcements about moving in a Semantic Web direction, I spoke with their Senior Open Programs Manager, David Recordon, about Facebook’s perspectives on many of the technologies they’re beginning to use. We ended up discussing Social Networking as a… Read More
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Tags: David Recordon, Facebook, Online social networking, Podcast, Senior Open Programs Manager, Social media, Talis, the Nodalities Magazine, World Wide Web
Category: Featured, Podcast, Semantic Web No Comments
Following my post about using the iPad recently, I’ve spent some time using more of the content-focused apps. As I mentioned before, the iPad has turned out to be a great device for consuming, reading and just experiencing media. This has obvious benefits for video, and many of the examples I’ve seen have made use… Read More
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 Tags: Andrew Sampson, App Store, Apple, building FryPaper, development, Digital, FryPaper, iPad, Stephen Fry, stephenfry.com, Technology/Internet, Technology_Internet
Category: Digital, Featured, Perspective 1Comment
