Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century might be the most important book you buy this year, if, you know, you want to help save the world. If you want a copy of the book, beautifully designed by Stefan Sagmeister, you can help hack the publishing system and get the book to number 1 at amazon, which will of course generate much more coverage, sell more copies, and thus help to save the world faster. I knew the book was coming out, but forgot about it, so thanks to Bruce Sterling for reminding me via his speech at ideaconference 06. While we are on the topic of important books that can maybe help save the world, I highly recommend Mr Sterling’s Shaping Things, particularly if you are a designer. We’ve got ourselves into a very sticky situation here, and designing clever solutions is one of the ways we might possibly get ourselves out of it…
Archive for October, 2006
How cool is that?
I know EVERYONE is blogging about how they are not blogging these days, so once again I am slavishly following trends, but I haven’t been blogging much lately (unless you count embedding videos and songs, which frankly I don’t). I started blogging back in 99, before blogging software, you know, old skool, and I guess I just ran out of steam…
So, I’ve been thinking I really need something to kick me in the pants and get me blogging again, I recall I used to rather enjoy it. Thank the intarwebs, then, that November has been decreed NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month - motto ‘Post or Die!’), as brought to my attention by Banjeroo. We’re just going to ignore the ‘National’ bit and pretend that it is GloBloPoMo.
I’m totally going to blog every day next month. Or die trying.
The wonderful box.net online storage site now allows you to post MP3s and videos (and what have you) straight to your blog. Which is nice. Here is ‘Baby Kate’ by Heartthrob, on m-nus. Enjoy!
As if that weren’t enough, box.net is also thoroughly integrated into the equally wonderful netvibes. Netvibes is a ‘custom made web 2.0 home page solution’ (they say) which basically allows you to aggregate together lots of feeds from various sources, plus add an ever-increasing number of custom modules for functionality like calendars, to-do lists, and so on. And it’s free! The new cinnamon release of netvibes also feature lots of swanky new features including video search (search for and play videos from google video and youtube) and writely document integration.
The box module allows you to access all your files while in your netvibes page, and to play any music tracks in the integrated netvibes flash player. Yay! I have an ever-growing library of tunes uploaded which I can now enjoy from any web-connected computer. It’s like we are living in the future, or something….
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