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Dan

Please people. Lay off the Dan Brown. I can’t commute without seeing at least one person reading a book of his. If you’re interested in crackpot theories about templars, Jesus and Sangreal – just pick up Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Brown stole borrowed all his Da Vinci Code ‘revelations’ from that book anyway). If you’re really interested in what conspiracy theories can do to a person, read Foucalt’s Pendulum – a much, much better way to spend your time reading.

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BBC social software goodness

Lots of nice things appearing out of the Beeb’s offices these days. Two recent projects that appeared on my radar:

  • Annotatable Audio is a project Tom Coates was involved with. It’s about wiki-style annotation of online audio with some extremely impressive Flash goodness (such as live audio scrubbing) thrown in for good measure.
  • The BBC archive will be opened up to the public using an IMDB-style website. Both Ben Hammersley and Matt Biddulph wrote about this. They’ve got amazing high quality metadata to work with – allowing all kinds of cross referencing. It’s built with Ruby on Rails, allowing for plenty of AJAX niceness.

(Update: I admit the last one isn’t social software; but it’s still cool.)

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I want to be a tumblelogger

After stumbling across Projectionist and being pleasantly surprised, I started to catch on to this new meme called tumblelog. Basically it’s about blogging small snipets of stuff, from lyrics, to IM transcripts to quotes to anythingh really, but with each bit in its own distinct look & feel.

Now to change Leapfroglog over to Leapfrogtumblelog…

A tumblelog

(Updated to correct some writing.) (And a screenshot.)

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