#""Go The Fuck to Sleep" is free on Audible at the moment" via boingboing.net I grabbed it for the Kindle here: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B00551W570&qid=1308132794&sr=1-2 Also check out all the genius fake "Werner Herzog Reads....." videos in that BoingBoing post. »
#“Some day I want to make a promo video this good - Swype 3.0” via youtube.com »
#“My Next Radio ain’t a Radio” I did a bit of messing this week on Turntable.fm followed by Google Music on my phone and I've been doing some mulling.Google Music has been uploading my music collection to the cloud for a week. Probably another week to go. The genius bit is that the new music player on Android then shows all of your music. If a song is not on your phone and you try to play it, it'll start streaming it. »
#“12 Key Social Media Strategies to Grow your Turntable.fm Fan Base” Why did you click on that link? Why? Why? But it's only a matter of time before those posts start for real. I shall then be engaging the services of a team of snipers to deal with the infestation.Turntable.fm - Quite seriously the first web-app to give me butterflies with excitement in a very long time. If they play this right, there is no limit to how big it can grow. »
#“And people thought I was kidding about the spaceship.” Apple to Build Spaceship Shaped Campus in Cupertino.Rumour has it that the main entrance will be known as Heaven's Gate. »
#“Some of the new touchpad gestures in OS X Lion” via youtube.com Of course you only need one button when you have gestures. »
#“17 Years of Cork Ancestral Project - Nothing Online” It is now seventeen years since the Cork Ancestral Project, funded by Fas, started their digitization work and none of it is on the internet. via mjordan.wordpress.com Read @margaretjordan's piece on this. She knows the area better than anyone. My fear about some of the current half-assed talking about Government OpenData is that we'll just have a repetition of this. »
#“Facebook Like + Facebook Credits = Workable Micro-Payments?” I was mulling this morning over the silly post I did yesterday on Stephen Colbert. In my ideal world, the TV show regional-licensing nonsense would go away and consumers in Europe would pay the US producers directly for each show (and vice versa for US consumers). If I want to watch Colbert right now, I want to flip 50c to the show's owners no matter where I am in the world. »
#“Stephen Colbert Apologizes to all of Ireland” I'd almost forgive them their ridiculous region-limiting of media based on this message. But not quite. Time to power-up the US VPN. »
#“Google App Inventor Just had a Rocket Strapped to its Back!” via appinventorblog.com You can now access Web APIs. HURRAH! Finally! OK, you won't be able to build Twitter OAuth Apps but now anything with an open API is accessible and consumable. RSS feeds for a flippin' start. Watch the number of really cool apps using App Inventor go through the roof. We're building one this evening. »