Gaseous Brainstorm: Is Blogging Just for Old Buggers?
The Kids: they’re laughing at us. Compared to when I was growing up and a crappy Gameboy or impossible to tune in b&w portable telly were the heights of the technology accessible to the average teen, kids these days “don’t know they’re born” with their infuriatingly flippant use of PS3s, iPhones and what-would-until-recently-have-been-considered-witchcraft wireless broadband. ...
Wired Magazine (US) preview their iPad app
This isn’t fanboy stuff, this is future of journalism/publishing/entertainment stuff. (via Mashable)
Gaseous Brainstorm: Google’s Buzz is here, but who will win the Tech Wars?
Today Google launched Buzz. On the face of it, it’s a fairly small (and pointless) update to make their gmail service more social. With the ability to update your profile from within your email provider, t’s a direct attempt to compete with Twitter. However what it clearly shows is they also feel a huge threat ...
OH NO NOT ANOTHER BLOODY iPAD POST
Christ. I have iPad fatigue already and they’re not even in the shops. I have been debating whether to add to the ACRES of unending conjecture, speculation and in a select few cases, reasonably intelligent coverage but as I have talked about it a few times here I felt I owed you some amount of ...
Gaseous Brainstorm: What’s the Future of Publishing and How Will We Pay for It?
Michael Caine: photographer unknown Print newspapers, it seems, will soon be no more than a minority medium, and so owners of the big news brands are wondering just how they’re going to make money once their main outlet is via the internet – whether it’s accessed via a computer, a mobile device or one ...
2010: The Future Is Now
Detail from letterpress Aisle One calendar (click for link) So here we are in the future. 2001 may have been a year that resonated with sci-fi fans everywhere for obvious reasons, but in terms of actual futuristic shit going down, it was pretty much a disappointment. But 2010 is a different story. Not only do ...
The Best of 2009 on Products of a Gaseous Brain
Whew! Quite an eventful year. I’m not going to try and provide an exhaustive summary of world events here, instead I thought it would be a good opportunity to give a brief rundown of my favourite posts of 2009 on this blog, whilst also including those events that were most important to me personally. Whilst ...
Random Reading List – Tuesday 3rd November 2009
It’s November. Howdahelldiddathappen? I’ve been unwell and off work for several days which means I’m missing the Gothenburg Address play at the Electric Circus tonight. Whatdahelliswrongwidme? I’ve managed to weakly click on the share button for a couple of things though, go see over at my google reader shared items or below if you are visiting the ...
Random Reading List – Tuesday 27th October 2009
Above picture by James Christopher via my Tumblr So, as promised, more random links. Was very chuffed this week to get a mention in this splendid article by Glasgow Podcart which also bigs up a bunch other blogs I enjoy, many of which I’ve mentioned here at some point. I think each of the blogs mentioned bring ...
Why I’m a Paytard
Last week I wrote a guest blog for Just Another iPhone Blog about the new Spotify app. There were a couple of comments, one of which recommended jailbreaking which apparently allows the app to run in the background, the lack of which is one of its major failings (Apple’s not Spotify’s fault). He says ...