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Tom Leonard : After aeons drifting hopelessly lost in the space/time continuum, Doctor Who is finally coming back to Earth. In a move that heralds the most eagerly anticipated comeback in television history, BBC1 said yesterday that it is developing a new series of the sci-fi classic.I'd like to repeat my vote for Stephen Fry as Dr Who.Update: Tom Baker tips Eddie Izzard for the r...

I've just had a conversation with Linda Meridon of the City of San Jose Finance Department.According to her, looking for contract work counts as running a business, and I need to apply for a San Jose business license.Also, as I didn't apply when I started looking in August, I will be charged interest on the fees. And she wants a copy of my 2002 tax return.Apparently, looking for full-time (W2) employment...

Liz leads me toTim Burke: Why is so much children's software so bad? Is it the need to appeal to parents with the proposition that it's "educational", which usually results in insincere, uninvolving, hack-design work in children's culture as a whole? Anybody got any ideas?The problem is twofold. Childrens 'culture' in games or TV is triply disintermediated - by parents, publishers and producers....

Tim Oren: Most hostile analysis of the music industry has focused on its inability to cope with the transition from material scarcity to digital abundance in the distribution portion of its business. However, the labels have been equally hapless when it comes to exploiting the Internet as a medium for promotion. Specifically, their promotional model still hinges on the scarcity of play slots on...

Joe Wilcox: Microsoft claims consumers and businesses can do lots of cool and productive things with Windows. But for all Windows' features, I find what I miss the most is the Internet. Or so I learned a few hours into my three days without Internet access.[...]Until this afternoon, when Comcast kicked local service back on, my computer was uncharacteristically idle, in spite of all the things I should...

Joi, Dave, Shelley and others have been talking about how Microsoft might approach the Syndication feud.They're all missing how 'embrace and extend' works. Imagine I'm a developer who wants to write a tool that can read and write to weblogs. I look into it and discover that there are multiple conflicting versions of syndication formats, and multiple inconsistent blog posting APIs. I have to pick which...

Joi comments on activist web video: At the joint Social Entrepreneurs and Global Leaders for Tomorrow meeting in Geneva, I met Gillian Caldwell. She is a film maker and an attorney and the Executive Director of WITNESS.This is incredibly important work. They are causing a great deal of impact already, but I think blogs could help increase their ability to reach a broader audience. This is such a great...

David Isenberg says: Yahoo and Google are permanently popular; they have low Zipf volatility. But my hypothesis is that there's a middle tier of blogs with high Zipf volatility, where a well expressed idea or a funny story or a new factoid can rapidly catapult a blog from #100,000 to #1000, or in rare cases even to #10, in a matter of hours.I am not sure how you'd test this idea experimentally (comments...

Our neighbour Gilda died early this morning after a long fight against hepatitis and its complications.She was a wonderful, kindly, loving lady. With her husband Bruce, she grew us vegetables in her garden, showed us interesting parts of California, and was always the neighbour you dream to have. We will miss her a l...

I had a long and fascinating discussion with Mark Petrovic today. David Beckemeyer - the Hecklebot creator - introduced us.it's very encouraging to meet somone paid to think deep...

Jason is one of the Blogger chaps inside Google, and seems to be working hard to expand Blogger's openness to 3rd party extensions and interesting additions, and very interested in Atom....

The St Luke's Chapel site now has photos.Rosie's Science Class, which is held at the church, has Photos up ...

I just posted BloggerCon IRC details over at the BloggerCon 2003 Weblog.This includes a link to my experimental simple OS X IRC client written in Python & PyObjC. (Currently it's so simple it only lets you into #bloggercon....

Interesting things are afoot with Technorati. Dave's prodigous database just keeps growi...

I met with Subutai Ahmad of Yesvideo.They have taken an interesting approach to the power law distribution of people with video cameras. They taregt the long tail who can't be botherd to edit it themselves. Instead they drop off the videotape at Walgreens with the photos, it gets shipped to Yesvideo, and they digitise it, make a DVD and ship it back. They have smart image processing to pick good chapter...

I had a fascinating lunch with Tim talking over possible futures of weblogging and how to rescue music from the RIAA mindset.He later blogged a splendid rant on all the ways the labels destroy value apart from D...

Rosie has begun teaching science to Elementary students. Some details over at Wonder Why ScienceHere she is demonstrating kinetic theory with blue ink in cold water and red in warm water:The hot water molecules are moving faster, and hence mix the ink up more quick...

People find the familiar comfortable. They want things to be like they were. So when technology did away with scarcity of recordings by making perfect copying easy, they wanted to change things back, to make these digits behave like physical goods.This is where the dream of DRM comes from - making digital goods scarce, and enforcing payment.Now using machines to enforce laws is bad. They have no capacity...

With nice history charts for all your favourite memes .Glad to see Anna found a home for it....

What the #joiito bot knows. I'm dumping it out dynamically with the Twisted webserver, which is all Python too.For some reason I needed to use a full path to the pickle data, not a local o...

Having finally got DSL via Earthlink, I'm swamped by the megabit bandwidth. Lots of nice movies to wat...

Greg Dyke's speech in full says less than the press release:We intend to allow parts of our programmes, where we own the rights, to be available to anyone in the UK to download so long as they don't use them for commercial purpos...

Don't go back to school day is a day of warnings about schools. eg "Here's a helpful tip; while at school, try not to get beat up". It's not John Gatto, but it makes the point...