Russell Davies

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social docking

Coupling

I bumped into someone new the other week. Someone who seemed nice, interesting, someone you'd think would be a good person to know. And we exchanged email addresses and the usual pleasantries about staying in touch. Time was that would have been it. But in the 48 hours after saying hello a thing happened that I'd not really noticed quite so bluntly; a form of social docking. Various connections were offered and accepted, on flickr, last, dopplr, twitter ; it struck me at the time as being like one of those space station docking sequences in a movie. Hoses extended and were coupled on, and the vapours of ambient intimacy started being pumped; the vapours that convert acquaintances into friends. It's good. I've always liked those docking/undocking sequences.

March 11, 2008 in technology | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

digital and back

Open

I just noticed that we've had a day of blending and bleeding digital and analogue.

Strike

We went bowling this morning. And the fun was considerably enhanced by running back to look at the animations on the computer scorecard.

Fence

Spare

You'll notice that we got many more of the 'you've not done very well animations' than the strrrriiike! ones.

Spardini

Ubfunkeys

And then, this afternoon, we've been playing with UB Funkeys (which seemed less of an inexpensive treat once I'd bought copies of Parallels and Vista). It's quite good. Like Club Penguin with a real world token. Not as much fun as Club Penguin though.  Seems like we're edging toward spime-iness through the world of play.

September 30, 2007 in technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

tweetvolume

Tweetvolume

tweetVOLUME is another great little twitter tool that you can imagine using for, er, something. via Data Mining.

May 24, 2007 in dashboard, technology, tools | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)