These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 7th through May 14th:

• Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram – Just amazing. This is a step ahead of TrueKnowledge in terms of polish and presentation, but seems only to focus upon ‘things that may be computed’. TK is more flexible and ‘relational’ – an ‘inference engine’. Be interesting to see how WA is populated, but it’s extremely exciting.
• Ken Rockwell: Leitz Minolta CLE – Ken Rockwell pronounces on the CLE. Now that he’s blessed it, my chances of getting a cheap second body on ebay have totally, utterly disappeared 🙁
• le hook rigging hook keyring safety hook clip fastener quick release key ring climbing camping – I so need one of each size, and two of the K66. Or maybe three. And the K50. Make that 6 of each.
• Get your SPINS for the Leica M! – What a great idea – interchangeable pinhole camera ‘lenses’.
• Why text messages are limited to 160 characters | Technology | Los Angeles Times – Great story.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 3rd through May 4th:

• 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools –
• scRUBYt! – Scrape. Shape. Integrate. Profit. – Great approach – even better if I could get it to work on OSX. Bookmarked in hope of that wondrous day.
• Dapper – Amazed to find that I didn’t already have Dapper in my bookmarks. Error. Rectified.

  If ONLY it could work nicely with password-protected sites. LinkedIn, I’m looking at you… 🙁

• The Future of the Web » Easy web scraping with PHP » HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax Web Developer for Hire –
• How to compile and install Ruby 1.9.1 on Mac OS X Leopard –

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 29th through April 29th:

• 6 Creative Ideas for Filtered Navigation | Get Elastic –
• Tips for filtered navigation in e-commerce | Blog | Econsultancy –
• isbndb.com – free ISBN database – Free ISBN database (er – isn’t that Amazon ?!? 😉 ) with new, fast price-comparison too.

  via @winjer

• Master List ‎(A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples)‎ – Global examples. Useful and interesting starting point if you’re interested in examples of corporate use of social media
• BBC NEWS | Business | How Christmas works: Supermarkets – Tell me that logistics is not interesting? Go on, I dare you! Wonderful, short video of why warehousing and logistics are the undiscovered sexy part of retail. Mmm – computer controlled fork lift trucks and voice-controlled humanoids picking for stores…
• A.P.C. – Jeans. Japanese denim. From France.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 19th through March 26th:

• Arduino – HomePage –
• Asahi Black – Beers of Europe Ltd – Japanese Beer – Yay. At last a source of Asahi Black that’s not just retail (ie Wagamama and Abeno).

  Delivery’s a bit steep – maybe I should buy in bulk??

• User:Matt/Famous Blogs « WordPress Codex – Famous blogs, eh? Good source of hard-working but smart WP template ideas.
• From punctuated futures to permafuture « Magical Nihilism – Interesting consideration of the word ‘future’ and how it might be reclaimed, considered and reused.
• Chrome Experiments: Google Launches New Site to Showcase the Power of Chrome and JavaScript – ReadWriteWeb – Links to some amusing and thought-provoking eye candy. Ours in not to wonder why…

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 9th through March 15th:

• https://www.neurofocus.com – Quoth them:

  “SIX CRITICAL MEASURES FOR SUCCESS
  Neuroscience provides a deep, clear view into the real-world, real-time reactions of consumers at the most elemental level: their brainwaves.

  The human brain reacts to stimuli in milliseconds. NeuroFocus captures these reactions thousands of times every second.

  Our sophisticated methodologies measure:

  * Attention
  * Emotional Engagement
  * Memory Retention

  From those we derive gauges of:

  * Persuasion,
  * Awareness
  * Novelty

  These are the six critical metrics that determine consumers’ engagement with your brand, with your marketing, with your messaging or other content. ”

  Coo.

• 10 Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Blogs –
• Visual Recipes – Okonomiyaki aka Japanese Pizza Recipe –
• Hacker Public Radio – Nice site, nice idea, well implemented. Hacker podcasts, by experts, for experts, but with others able to listen in.
• Wooden train buildings & Scenery – Discounted Brio wooden trains. Everyone needs more trains. And more track. And more trains. And more track…

These my micropostings and bookmarks – February 25th through February 27th:

• www.processaway.net – Credit card processing available on the iPhone… Interesting development.

  “We are all retailers”.

  Not sure about security or my happiness about pin/card harvesting, but conceptually it’s a further interesting move for mobile apps and commerce.

• The Circle – a simple ToDo System to Get more Things Done : font.is – Elegant. If only my a) handwriting and b) self-discipline were ready to meet this challenge of this elegant approach.

  I think I’ll go as far as adopting circles rather than my current squares (either a square or a square with a tick. Simple, but not a circle).

• TripAdvisor’s 2009 Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels – This is what I call catchy marketing!

  Making a feature of negative reviews. Wonderful. Also puts them in the category of honest and fearless advisor. Near.

• Stevey’s Blog Rants: The Universal Design Pattern –
• A Framework for Representing Knowledge – A Framework for Representing Knowledge

  Marvin Minsky

These my micropostings and bookmarks – February 6th through February 24th:

• Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word – oooh – a tingle of desire.

  Not only (yet another) magic digital pen, BUT it now has a Mac desktop client (yay) AND rather tasty leather-bound pads of specialist paper…

  Tech, stationery, mmmm

  Now, all I need is Pelikan to make a digital fountain pen and heaven beckons!

• Q&A: Matthew Yeomans on social media measurement | Blog | Econsultancy –
• Brandbook – Notebook World – Oh – heaven is a place on earth. It’s here.

  Not only is this every desirable element in my “Hi Fidelity-esque” Tourette’s Stationery Specification Fetish, but this allows you to construct the very book(s) of your dreams.

  I’ve asked for a quote, but I sense that the cost may be more appropriate for a buying club approach than a personal indulgence…

  It’s made my day though.

  Courtesy of Monocle who’ve gone and had a bunch made (although not as I’d have specc’d of course. Sigh).

• Leica camera repairs – Luton – Old skool repairs for old skool cameras.
• ActiveCollab for Agile | activeCollab – Using ActiveCollab for Agile-ish projects…

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 25th through February 5th:

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Parking ticket leads to a virus – Combining ‘real world’ scamming and deception to get people to go online and install a virus.
• Nikon F4 resource page – Uber-geekery on the F4. Respect.
• Ocado secures £10m Sharia’a financing – Interesting financing option – probably the most high-profile commercial deal for Sharia’a finance.
• Getting Started – Tribesmart – Social shopping service that allows collection and aggregation of products across the web using Firefox bookmarklets.
• Fujicolor Pro 800Z – My new favourite fast colour neg film. Lovely grain, beautiful, cool colour balance and predictable exposure. I could swim in this stuff.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 15th through January 22nd:

• TheBrain.com – About TheBrain – Hyperbolic Tree navigation and association returns! 9 years after seeing some nice examples move from PARC to production here’s another one.
• recycled composting instant desk mini bin : Inventoids – Wonderful! Another great idea from the fertile Inventoids mind. This one is a detailed ‘how to’ – the combination of a great inventive mind and too much time (or distraction activity?). Should be cross-filed under origami 😉
• Hydra 2.0 + Aperture Plug-In | Creaceed – Woo. High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography plugin for Aperture. HDR is essentially a ‘morph’ of several photos of the same scene, each at different exposure values, so that you get a combined, higher dynamic range – ie details in the shadows as well as details in the highlights. This will make HDR as easy as stitching panoramas.
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags – Hashtags – the # on Twitter and how to aggregate and follow these ‘channels’.
• Credit crunch support | Technical and Business Topics | ICAEW – ICAEW’s credit crunch portal. Good idea for a professional body to set up a ‘theme’ or ‘collection’ page.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 6th through January 12th:

• Bride’s advert for wedding guests – a new franchise idea?? (BBC NEWS | UK | England | London) – Why stop at this? Surely, there’s a business here? A sort of modern ‘rent-a-friend’.

  Service extensions could involve an in-depth advance interview with the bride (memorising key dates, anecdotes, family names, locations); the “Silver” level would include carrying pictures; “Gold” would involve repeating stories to emphasise key personality traits; while “Platinum” could involve learning jokes in the bride’s language and some national dances/folk songs.

  Of course, the Platinum is no more than a good Welsh or Scots wedding, so I think there’ll be a pool of trained people in the UK.

  Best of all, a full service would cover ages from 1 through 100 and therefore bring back into the workplace the old and the very young (aka “new apprentices”).

  I’m now just waiting for Gordon Brown to announce this as a new recession-busting initiative, and how Britain can be the Wedding Capital of the World.

  Indeedy.

• Carbon cost of Googling revealed (BBC NEWS | Technology) – Two googles = one cup of tea.

  New equivalences for a new age.

• How To Twittersquat The Top 100 Brands @ErikJHeels – How To Twittersquat The Top 100 Brands

  Link courtesy of @Peter_abrahams

• Usernamecheck.com: Where is Your Username registered – Useful service to check a username against dozens of social networks, microblogging and other services. Ideal for monitoring use of a brand name, or helping maintain a consistent user identity across so many services.

  Thanks to @peter_abraham for the pointer.

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech fair offers greener vision – ‘Green-ness’ is becoming a factor in purchasing:

  “In the near future, the “greenness” of a gadget will have a big influence on whether consumers will buy it, suggests research published as CES begins.”

• ProfCast – ProfCast Features –