Skip to content

Monthly Archives June 2011

Five radio station iPhone apps

Dandelion Radio Update, 30 June. Paul Webster, on Twitter, prompted me to stick a sixth radio iPhone app in here at the top of the post: a lovely app from Dandelion Radio, the online-only indie music streaming service ‘inspired by John Peel’. He’s right, the app is lovely and although Dandelion’s licence only permits live [...]

Posted 27 June 2011 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

From the NASA archive

I love this 1965 image from NASA’s archive. The caption reads: Gemini Water Egress Training. Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are pictured during water egress training in a large indoor pool at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas. Young is seated on top of the Gemini capsule while Grissom is in the water with a [...]

Posted 22 June 2011 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Is that it for the PC?

The latest Mac OS is the first that can only be bought from an app store, from a tightly-integrated, locked-down, official source. I reckon that’s pretty much it for the freerange, open platform we call the PC. Googling myself the other day, I found this article from The Guardian nine years ago. It’s about the [...]

Posted 09 June 2011 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

David Hepworth – a Q&A about curating music

It has been my privilege, over the last few years, to write a few pieces for Britain’s best music (and arts and movies and stuff) magazine The Word – including, a couple of issues back, an article about the curation boom (my articles about Wikipedia and archiving the web are on the web site). The [...]

Posted 04 June 2011 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,