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FOWA 2007 - day one
This 'stream-of-listening' feed was provided for folk that couldn't make the event. In the end I'm not sure it's very useful, so today I'll just take notes and publish more structured thoughts after the event.
Techno-bollocks,
More Joy of Issy
Billy claims that Issy-Les-Moulineaux is the star of a famous example in pragmatics.
The people’s princess
Her name will forever live on in the halls of justice for her victory in the landmark Supreme Court case Marshall v. Marshall, which struck a blow for the rights of millions of young widows of elderly billionaire ...
Merde
Oh bugger, the fabulous Mom and Pop southwestern restaurant (renowned for snails, duck dishes and cassoulet) which by all acounts was always bustling and well worth the détour changed hands two years ago. Serve me...
Les Gourmands - Nathalie et Philippe COSTE
OK. I for some reason that escapes me haven’t managed to eat a decent meal in Paris recently (and that must take some doing) so I’ve got a plan. I’ve asked around and apparently this place is great.
Greed, DRM and Steve's thoughts on music
I do hate agreeing with what Steve Jobs has to say but I do…
The new BLINK
The helping-corporates-move-towards-standards thing started for me when I did a longish contract at an insurance company and helped them embrace semantic markup and the separation of style and structure. Anyways, ...
Most car drivers don’t know what revs are…
Not like us cheeky biker-types who are familiar with little two-stroke Yam’s and their ilk (tho now that I’ve aged and drive a lumpen opposed twin, my serious revving days are behind me)…
Techno-bollocks,
They did the iPhone thing!
Jason D. O’Grady is blogging the conference in real time. They did it!!!! They really did the iPhone thing it wasn’t a red herring!!!
Techno-bollocks,
Monday morning
Her forearms are long and thin, and the sleeve of her floppy jumper keeps dropping as she fiddles with her empty teacup. She is reading Tolstoy.The sun is rising over Sidcup.I have padded plasters on my ankles as ...
More on Flickr
Rob Ferrara isn’t 100% in agreement re Flickr. His point is that the free account doesn’t give him enough of an incentive to upgrade.
flickr,
The MySpace murders
Welcome to a world of prurience we didn’t even know existed. No longer will the currious need to dig through the sleazier end of the tabloid press to get their thrills. We can all now view our serial killers’ MySp...
Zune (you can’t do that, no, sorry, not that either and you’ve done that once too many times in the last 12 hours so sorry, you’ll need to reset…)
Really good piece on the Zune’s user experience chez Lefsetz:
Paris
So I’ve been in Paris all week. I was here last week and will be here for three days next week. I’m so totally sad, I’ve been commuting out to the burbs on the RER, working all day and then coming back to the hote...
Family,
The Thresher thing
Jonathan and Ross over at TMW are working through the Thresher promo thing apparently organised by Mr Gapingvoid Hugh Macleod. They both make some good points and Ross points out that the promo represents a 7% inc...
Family-friendly shopping in Paris
Trying to score Nicki some perfume in the Galleries Lafayette yesterday and came across this chap. Great poster next to him with a guy reclining in a bulge-accentuating pose. I figured I should definitely get myse...
Gmail down, arse, fech:-(
Damn, Tuesday morning and Gmail is still on the fritz. Problems started around Sunday lunchtime and the service has been intermittent since then.
Clinique 3 steps and a pumpkin double latte
Gosh, the word “Starbucks” appears twenty-three times on this Lonelygirl15 comments page…
Starbucks relaxed about metrics
I'll be happy if we create a single cheer chain," said Brad Stevens, VP-marketing for Starbucks. He said he's more interested in the qualitative response, as the effort has no traditional marketing metrics tied to...