Archive for 2nd of June, 2009
Seen Elsewhere
Jun 2nd
I’ve only seen the first half of The Secrets of Stonehenge. That looked to me like a reheated version of the National Geographic special from last year. Paul’s post has reminded me there is plenty of interest still to discuss about that.
Why Dr Who beats Einstein these days: Quentin Cooper thinks the stereotype of scientists is so deeply ingrained in public consciousness that if you look normal people don’t think you count as a scientist.
The epistemology of history as such may be parsed as the historicization of the public sphere.
Finally thanks go to the Guardian for lists Silence is the Enemy on their Best of the Web list at Comment is Free.
Friendfeed: Tech Tuesday
Jun 2nd
So far we have Twitter, Flickr and possibly Audioboo. We could add more services like delicious or Zotero in the future, but we’re getting messy. How can you pull them all together? The answer is Friendfeed. I found Friendfeed easier to understand than Twitter, but I’m told I’m in a minority, so I’ll try and take it slowly.
If you sign in to Friendfeed you can then sign in to all your other online services. Friendfeed then pulls together a page of the latest things you’ve been posting around the web. So in my case if I comment on AJCann’s weblog, which uses Disqus for comments, those comments will appear in my Friendfeed stream. That’s because I’ve told Friendfeed where to find my Disqus account. It’s a bit like a collation of what you do on the social side of the internet. Like a lot of social things it gets more interesting when you add people.
If you have a Friendfeed account you can go to my page, subscribe, and you’ll see what I’m up to on your page. Do that with several friends and it starts to look like the social web in one convenient location. You won’t just see our tweets, you’ll see More >
