08-26-09

Hello. Still here!

Update 4: This is getting embarrassing now. The redesign is *still* in progress. It’s May 2010.

Update 3: The redesign has started . . .

Update 2: It’s 2010 and this hasn’t happened yet. It will do – I’m just super busy on lots of other stuff (OK, mainly Twitter)

Update: It’s October and I still haven’t done this. Eeeeek. But, looks like I might be doing it this week. Yay!
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Wow. That went pretty quick. I can’t believe just how long it’s been since I last blogged. Sure . . . I’ve had a few wobbles before but this time it’s been ages. And it seems like I’m not the only one. These days like a lot of people most of my online time gets spent on Twitter where I share loads of stuff and do all the stuff I used to do on the blog, but in micro format. The other place that gets a hammering is delicious, where I’m up to a silly number of bookmarks.

Anyway, just in case anybody is still listening – I wanted to let you know that over the next couple of weeks I;m going to be revamping my online presence and as part of that this blog is going to be upgraded and re-skinned. Hopefully all that spring cleaning and me feeling all nice about the blog again will give me that little bit of added motivation to get blogging in long form again. In the meantime though . . . . see you on Twitter.

01-06-09

It’s all about the data

Hello and Happy New Year. I am now back online after a nice refreshing break from the interwebz. Well almost, kind of in an iPhone kind of way. Anyway, like everyone else, I have a gazillion of things that I’d love to do this year, lots of thoughts on what might be in store for us netizens, loads of ideas about the future of the web and how it’s all about being human, lots of questions to ask and people to talk to.

But for the time being, whilst I play catch up and get my head back into everything after playing way too much Guitar Hero and spending too much money on geeky stuff, here’s a simply awesome data visualisation of a year’s worth of edits on OpenStreetMap.org.

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Data is the future. Of advertising, of the web, of everything. (Yes, I watched the Kevin Kelly 5000 days TED talk again recently!)

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