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Microformat logo pumpkinOriginally uploaded by Kevin Marks. I was wondering what to carve into the pumpkin, and a vision of orange came to me. The orange Microformats logo, as seen on Pingerati.Technorati Tags: halloween, logo, microformat, microformats, pumpkin, web ...

Armando Iannucci explains that comedy is making the serious points in politics:I still want comedy to matter a great deal. I want it to tackle big subjects. The idea that we are making someone laugh about something does not mean we don't take it seriously. Sometimes, we can take something so seriously that the only practical way to release the tension is to make a joke. Sometimes, we can be so appalled...

My boys' blog is up for voting in the vloggies in the "children's" category. To encourage you to vote we have put up a video they made about 5 years ago called Christopher's Buttons, when Christopher invented some magic buttons, and they started working.Here's the full, Director's Cut edition, and here's a short version on YouTube:Do please vote for the boys.Technorati Tags: button, funny, magic,...

Reading Ev's post about buying back Odeo from the VC's and refocusing on smaller faster development, along with Aaron's on how Google could decentralise I see several trends converging.Software startups used to need lots of VC cash and time because of the old packaged software cycle, where you had big, annual releases that you sold for hundreds of dollars apiece. On the web, we have daily releases,...

Ohloh has done some year-on-year comparisons of programming language use.From this chart they conclude that 'The web is being built with PHP':However, if you combine it with this chart:The conclusion looks more like 'PHP programmers write lots of extra lines of code compared to programmers using other languages'.This fits in with my experience - the PHP version of the XOXO code ended up much longer...

The European Union's plan to regulate the net as if it were TV - Television Without Frontiers - picked up a lot of attention in blogs this week, after the Times covered it. The basic idea is flawed - TV involves handing a monopoly over spectrum to organisations, so regulating how they use it makes some sense, but there is no spectrum scarcity online, all you need is a webserver. So the EU limits on...

John Dowdell graciously responded to my attack on Flash video, asking for more solid points, which is fair enough - I did rather assume that Flash video's flaws are self-evident. This post is adapted from our conversation in his comments.First of all, let me say that Flash gets one big thing right, which is unobtrusive ubiquity. Tom Green's history is spot on about the stupidly self-destructive things...

Mark Liberman at Language Log turn pitch in speech into pictures.Radiolab discovers that repeated speech becomes music. Listen to it in this mp3, it's amazing.Technorati Tags: mu...

The Lifeboat foundation is thinking about future threats. I was struck by this one:A system that evolves freely is potentially very adaptable and creative. It could also become nearly anything, with consequences ranging from the annoying to the disastrous. It is likely unlimited self-evolution will need to be contained carefully even as we mine it for truly new inventions. The arrows nicely hint at...

This American Life is the best radio documentary series I know of (Suw Charman and Kevin Anderson agree). I heard on the radio today that it is officially becoming a podcast, and their website confirms it. Free for a week, old episodes for 99¢ each.Subscribe on iTunes or in your feed reader, you won't regret it.Technorati Tags: interactive radio, iTunes, podcast...

The BBC terminology guide, 2006:The word "terrorist" itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding. We should try to avoid the term, without attribution. [...] We should use words which specifically describe the perpetrator such as "bomber", "attacker", "gunmen", "kidnapper", "insurgent" or "militant."George Orwell, As I Please, 2nd June 1944Nearly all human beings feel that a thing...

Foxtrot is way ahead of Dilbert these days.Technorati Tags: Google, long tail, puppy, RSS, video, web 2.0, YouT...

Creative Commons are having a fundraiser:ORG is looking for members:and recruiting a full-time Executive Director to build on the great work Suw Charman has been doing there bootstrapping ORG.Technorati Tags: creative commons, digital rights, Open Rights Group, ...

Now YouTube has Google backing, they can stop making us watch Flash video. Everyone who cares about video quality, from Hollywood, to the BitTorrent-using TV bootleggers use mpeg4. Everyone who doesn't uses Flash.I've pointed out before how Apple screwed things up, but it is still fixable. Heres my 5 point plan.Apple, drop the tacky upgrade ads. Seriously, they make you look like the Giselle wannabee...

Neil Gaiman writes:An interview with Terry Gilliam about Good Omens (really, if someone would just give Terry $65,000,000 he could get going. Do you have $65,000,000 you don't need? Check your pockets. Maybe it's in a drawer somewhere. No? Look harder.).Google buys YouTube, meaning a couple more chaps may suddenly have that much money lying around.PS - Terry Gilliam's first usenet post (I watched...

Doc wrote about Vendor Management Systems to counter Customer Management Sytems.One technique I picked up from Stuart is to register a domain (preferably your own name), and forward any email to it to your inbox. Then, when you need to give a vendor an email address, give them their name at yours, eg godaddy@kevinmarks.com. That way, if the subsequently get spam, or unexpected mail, you know who it...