I enjoyed a splendid East London coffee with Iain Tate of crackunit on Friday. An excellent man who pointed me at two of the best sites I've seen for ages. Netvibes which you probably all know about but which is a fantastic way of drawing all your RSS stuff together and is my new home page, and We Feel Fine which Iain explains much better than I. I was also pleased to learn he's another East Midlander (Staffs). We E-Midlanders have to stick together. Maybe we should start an East Midlands blog ring. It'd be called eyupmiduck.
Jonathan Harris (one of the guys behind We Feel Fine) is a genius; do you remember his 10 x 10 project from last year?
http://www.tenbyten.org/now.html
Posted by: Dino | May 22, 2006 at 10:45 PM
I lived in Lincoln for 3 years.
Coming from the South West you never forget the first time someone calls you Duck.
Posted by: Ben | May 22, 2006 at 11:06 PM
It was the first thing they tell you when you get to Staffordshire Uni... The mating call around Stoke is "Yer goin up h'Anlee Duck?"
Posted by: Rob Mortimer | May 23, 2006 at 01:08 AM
Being from Nottingham means 'Ey Up Me Duck' & 'Are You Mashin' are in my DNA .. so imagine how I go down throughout Asia when I say it in casual conversation. PLUS I support Nottingham Forest, so they see me as some sort of bloomin' circus freak show! Ha!
Posted by: Rob@cynic | May 23, 2006 at 01:57 AM
Love netvibes - way forward - Google [IG] and Microsoft [live.com] both have a verison but they don't pull the images from the Flickr stream! Rubbish.
Can't wait until that is the desktop - rss / xml is the future - for content, software and file storage - at least once the gdrive happens [Google's planned free storage space where you can store ALL your files - like Box.net on netvibes.]
Whoa. Geeked out there.
Posted by: Faris | May 23, 2006 at 04:02 AM
Eh up mi duck. Hast mashed?
Posted by: lucy | May 23, 2006 at 11:38 AM