Photos posted Saturday 18 May 2013
Letters: Peerless Wigan | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard describes Col Needham as the man who “created the Internet Movie Database” (G2, 13 May). While true in a technical sense, this ignores the vast amount of data contributed, free, by users of the original website. Without their unrewarded (and apparently forgotten) labours, IMDb would not have been as attractive to Amazon in 1998, if at all.
Phil Gyford
London
A comment on another site on 14 May 2013
The Sound and the Fury playlist
BBC FOUR recently had a three-part TV series about 20th century classical music, The Sound and the Fury which, to me, knowing little about the subject, seemed good. So, inevitably, I’ve made a Spotify playlist of the works it mentioned.
In Writing on 19 Mar 2013
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed
If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s been quiet for the past few days, but it should be back now.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 3 Mar 2013
Links for Thursday 16 May 2013
- The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine
- A nice summary of everything from Excel to Gephi. (via Dotcode)
- UWE Graduation Ceremony 1993 - YouTube
- Blimey, nearly twenty years ago. Everyone is so smooth and wide-eyed. (12:30 if you're wondering.)
Recent YouTube Favourites
Mike Johnston’s 266 (or so) Books By Genre
Over on The Online Photographer the host Mike Johnston recently wrote about a list of books he’s been compiling for some time:
At Septivium on 25 Mar 2013