Bowblog

Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
@bowbrick@bowblog.com
1,334 posts
0 followers
Blog

bowblog.com/

Profile

bowblog.com/author/bowbrick/

  • Tily in the gloom

    The questionable low-light capabilities of this Ericsson cam-phone (have you wondered why the TV ads all seem to be set in the Sahara or Southern California in high summer?) and the sepulchral gloom of Blacks in Dean Street produce interesting results. Here’s Stuart Tily, another.com‘s new capo, looking like a Rembrandt merchant (you might need…

  • Time for a photolog

    I will use these instructions to create a photolog using MT in five steps when I get around to it. I will. I will. I will.

  • Matt’s meme for Christmas Number 1

    Partly to celebrate Matt’s meme and partly to test Ben’s ‘More Like This from Others’ thingie, Im blogging Ben’s link to The New York Times‘ Ideas of the Year. Do I have any idea how this works? No.

  • King of the fishes

    Olly, our four year-old, is on his way home dressed as a fish after his impeccably multi-cultural, non-denominational Xmas concert yesterday.

  • Category theft

    This blog needs better categories but the prospect of coming up with a useful set was too boring – besides, it’s hard work thinking up categories for things that don’t exist yet – much easier to retrospectively categorise. Anyway, the nice people at the iSociety Blog have solved the problem for me. They’ve already invented…

  • Oxford conference on code, the net, ideas

    I just registered for this conference. Looks like a good opportunity to hear Lessig et al in action – organised by the ambitious (and well-funded) Oxford Internet Institute.

  • Telecoms mast toppled – singularity deferred

    Here’s a tough reminder that technology always exists in a (potentially hostile) human context. People respond to technology and to change in complicated and often contradictory ways. As a result, technologists and businesses cannot assume unhindered forward progress. It’s this kind of human friction that practically guarantees we’ll never arrive at the dreamed-of ‘singularity‘ but…

  • “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy” – Tim O’Reilly

    I’ll join the throng bookmarking this cogent defense of file sharing from publisher Tim O’Reilly. Tim is the man who made a fortune by selling his early portal, the Global Network Navigator, to AOL and has been able to pursue the life of the Libertarian Gentleman Publisher ever since. His books (with their beautiful Dover…

  • A ‘documentary musical’

    I have no idea what it’s like to live in a young offenders’ prison like the notorious Feltham but I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the arrival of Crime TV veteran Roger Graef, poet Simon Armitage, pioneer documentary director Brian Hill and Channel 4 to make a ‘documentary musical’ in…

  • Barbie is among us

    My daughter Billie is three today and yesterday we had a party. Barbie came. I mean the real Barbie. Then she left and fifteen dumbstruck three and four year-olds won’t ever be the same again.