• the slow death of the website: http://bit.ly/aCShQl (via @steverubel ) #
• Save BBC 6 Music, add a twibbon to show your support! #savebbc6music – http://bit.ly/cFlRBK #
• just walked past "banksy" attempting to do a stencil in soho in broad daylight – mobbed by camera phones. is that his style these days? #
• RT @pibbers: Dear Mr BBC – please see sense and drop Radio 1 – it's only giving the youth of today bad taste in music #save6music #
• BBC signals an end to era of expansion – Times Online http://bit.ly/94HUux #
• Hmmm. @DalaiLama has loads of followers yet only only fave – about himself. Transcend the ego, dude #
• Google moving on from Gears: Hello HTML5 – http://bit.ly/bwdaJA #
• Brunch at http://www.homebrighton.co.uk – good stuff. Nice people too #

• HTML5 video from Vimeo – http://bit.ly/cJAFBI – it's the future, don't you know #
• #decode at v&a followed by drinks in next room to prince philip at arts club? Aren't we quite the lardeedar. Time for some urban toss… #
• Code (from decode @ the v&a)
  http://twitpic.com/13s3yz #
• South ken tube. Ergh. Half term #
• YouTube registered their domain name only 5 years ago – http://bit.ly/dreS8a #
• Nice intro to multivariate testing (mvt) – http://bit.ly/btozbh #
• Shorter working week soon inevitable, forecasts nef | the new economics foundation http://bit.ly/941RLb #

I walked past this scene outside the Barclays Bank on Dean Street in Soho this afternoon - what on earth is this all about?  Have they spent their massive profits building a new private army?

Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

Roger Ballen is old-school and in this video he makes some great points about the role books play in learning. I agree with him because paper adds a certain depth to photos that just cannot be recreated on the screen.

I’m greedily building a beautiful photography library, but I’m not just stopping at photo books: I’m also collecting my favourite fiction.
People who know me well would say why? Why are you not buying a kindle or an iPad? Truth be told, I just don’t think either of them are immersive enough.

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• A day on Chatroulette, the web's weirdest new outpost | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  Fascinating. Whilst I will not be using it anytime soon I think the concept is interesting: voyeurism meets spontaneous social networking.

  A friend of mine once said that walking alone into a bar, in an unfamiliar town, is an exercise that can teach you reams about your own social skills; striking conversations with strangers is a natural gift for some people—and not so much for others.

  Chat rooms and social networks have, in many ways, given introverts the ability to build relationships online, without face-to-face interaction. I often think: do these insular environments prohibit the development of social skills? Most psychologists would agree that they do.

  A concept such as Chatroulette, if vetted and controlled, could be used as a personal development tool for people who suffer from various forms of social anxiety.

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• Buzz buzz buzz #
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• Looks like we're in for more snow then. @rosiesherry and other #Lewes peeps – is it laying there? Not sticking about in Soho… #

• Will School Libraries Go Book-less? – Education – GOOD
  Due to the launch of the iPad news like this will soon be common place. Digital natives will soon use ebooks with the same ease that we use normal books. People are habitual creates and we become comfortable with what were used to, in our case its books and we find reading off screens ergonomically challenging.

  Children who grow up with screens will not share our discomforts and they will be the generations that fuel the mass adoption of Kindles and iPads.

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  When will we be able to see a tool that provides trends insights across all types of media?

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• YouTube – Microsoft LookingGlass Video Demo – AdWeek NY 2009
  This one nearly passed me by, but I have to say it does look very promising.

  The UI is well designed and it seems to provide a nice layer of analytics.
  The tools market is getting slightly cluttered now and every week I’m told about another piece of technology that’s going to change my world. If anybody is going to do something differently, or better, it’s going to be either Microsoft or Google.

  A few years ago Google turned the Analytics market inside out when it released Google Analytics for free. Are we about to see the same thing happen to the monitoring tools market? Most probably so, and this is a GOOD thing!

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• No brighton trains from Ldn vic. Told to bike to clapham j. No trains at cj. Told to bike to Ldn bridge. No trains. Should've stayed in pub. #
• waaa waaa wiggle eeeeek #
• My eyes are watering from the thumping techno in my head but it is helping me power through a mundane afternoon of coding intensity. #
• Clapham junction – the indicator at platform 13 reads "next train expected 0832". "Current time – 09:26" http://uktra.in/sn #
• I vote for @TheRSC for a Shorty Award in #culturalinstitution because… http://bit.ly/shorty #
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• RT @Econsultancy: Website development is like having a baby http://bit.ly/bevJ8U <– great analogy #
• ooops. dye not die! #
• I wonder how many geeks are now working out how to convince their girlfriends to die their hair red #bbcrevolution #vrev #