Month: May 2009

  • Find web references to the page you’re looking at

    I thought I’d share two small bookmarklets I’ve been using to find references for a page I’m looking at: Web references: page Web references: site To use them, drag each link to your browser toolbar. This will create a couple of buttons that you can click when you want to find more information about whatever […]

  • Notes from a working group

    Standards geek: “I think we need to establish a standard for representing poetry on the Internet. I’ve drawn up this draft which encapsulates stanzas inside an Atom feed. It’s pretty simple; the spec fits on a page, so it should be easy to implement.” Visual poet: “That’s pretty cool, but what about visual poetry? You […]

  • Elgg’s new round of funding

    Congratulations are in order for the Curverider folks: over on the Elgg blog, Dave’s announced a new round of funding for the company. Additionally, Leonard Lin is working with the team on a consultancy basis. Although I left to pursue other projects last month, Elgg is close to my heart. I headed technical direction through […]

  • Ben’s Big Gig

    North Oxford is the wealthiest part of a wealthy city, where BMWs sit in gravel driveways and wine bars nestle amongst delicatessens and stylish cafes; a part of the city I always yearned to belong to as a kid, but never quite did. It was where I went to school, and where we had our […]