Welcome, again, to another entirely subjective selection of 15 links, humanely culled from my week's online reading and roughly collated under the seven broad categories seen below:
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Gawker's Nick Denton on the future of blogging.
CEO of Creative Commons Joi Ito on fair and innovation-friendly copyright tools for the web.
Google moves to stop bad customer service turning into good search rankings for online retailers.
Chromaroma game tries to achieve the impossible: making travel on the London Tube fun.
Social Media
Facebook wants to trademark the word 'Face'. (The cheek of it... etc.).
The persistence (or otherwise) of digital memories: preserving the digital self after death.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
A lengthy interview with William Gibson, cyberpunk writer and inventor of the word 'cyberspace'.
A veritable treasure trove of Samuel Beckett plays on film.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
The Top 50 free apps Lifehacker is 'most thankful for'.
AX: a free, time-saving utility for anyone who regularly has to type accents and special characters.
Music
Google Translate now speaks beatboxer... well, sort of.
Games & Other Distractions
The Infinite Ocean: an atmospheric, deeply-layered philosophical point-and-click mystery (more of an interactive narrative, than a traditional game).
Miscellaneous
Ads they'd never allow today, probably not even on Mad Men.
Virgin launches iPad-only magazine (to mixed reviews so far).
Man sells virtual asteroid for $635,000 - a $500,000 profit on his original purchase.
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Gawker's Nick Denton on the future of blogging.
CEO of Creative Commons Joi Ito on fair and innovation-friendly copyright tools for the web.
Google moves to stop bad customer service turning into good search rankings for online retailers.
Chromaroma game tries to achieve the impossible: making travel on the London Tube fun.
Social Media
Facebook wants to trademark the word 'Face'. (The cheek of it... etc.).
The persistence (or otherwise) of digital memories: preserving the digital self after death.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
A lengthy interview with William Gibson, cyberpunk writer and inventor of the word 'cyberspace'.
A veritable treasure trove of Samuel Beckett plays on film.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
The Top 50 free apps Lifehacker is 'most thankful for'.
AX: a free, time-saving utility for anyone who regularly has to type accents and special characters.
Music
Google Translate now speaks beatboxer... well, sort of.
Games & Other Distractions
The Infinite Ocean: an atmospheric, deeply-layered philosophical point-and-click mystery (more of an interactive narrative, than a traditional game).
Miscellaneous
Ads they'd never allow today, probably not even on Mad Men.
Virgin launches iPad-only magazine (to mixed reviews so far).
Man sells virtual asteroid for $635,000 - a $500,000 profit on his original purchase.
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