no2self.net

Hello 2007. Hello new blog address: no2self.net When you have a blog that’s named so as to remind you not write posts that are too self centred, using your own name as the URL is a little daft. After 3 years I finally got round to re-launching under a proper address. The RSS feed will [...]

Found by pressing the ‘related feeds’ button in bloglines.com to get a list of blogs similar to my own: Architecture Sketches quoting Michael Maltzman: “I can’t say that I design in one way or another it is a lot more back and forwards… It is like casting a broad net and seeing what comes up… [...]

Here’s our entry to the Euroclad drawing competition, which asked entrants to ‘sketch a fresh look for Brighton’s West Pier’. Chambers for a Brighton Memory Palace Concept: “The first pier at Brighton was known as The Chain Pier, and there was a silhouettist working on it throughout most of it’s history. The slhouettists moved to [...]

Flickrmap have just announced version 2 of their photo/map mash up service. They’ve improved the Google Earth network connection that you use to tag photos with GPS and also introduced a Google map rendered option as well as their own stylised version. Here’s mine: (which, of course, doesn’t appear in the RSS feed) And I’ve [...]

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | It’s not as easy as it looks ‘…After years spent dissecting the works of the great artists, critic Jonathan Jones decided to put his money where his mouth was – and learn to draw…’ (via rodcorp) no, 2 self mobile rss rss feed of this site for mobile [...]

Extensive quotes in this baby. Some new, some old; go put the kettle on first. Emphasis in bold by me… Geert Lovink on Blogging and Nihilism: Instead of merely looking into the emancipatory potential of blogs, or emphasize its counter-cultural folklore, I see blogs as part of a unfolding process of ‘massification’ of this, still, [...]

Memories pour from 43 year old chairs like sweat from a glass blower’s arse. Used wisely they are tools for dislodging anecdotal diamonds from the deepest mines of architectural history. Returning from the book shop at lunch, clutching my RIBA bag containing William Curtis’ book on Denys Lasdun, an unattractive degree of smugness causes me [...]

Podbasket – the easy way to build podcasts ‘…Podbasket allows you to create your own podcast feed just by providing the URLs for offsite audio files…’ – Strewth, this is good. Very good. (via tesugen.com) (taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)

HassleMe ‘…Not eating enough fruit? Forgot to feed the fish again? Need a little help keeping your New Year’s resolutions? Tell us what to hassle you about, and we’ll nag you via email at semi-unpredictable intervals…’ (taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)

del.icio.us: casting the net wider ‘…Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added…RSS feeds that have one of those system tags will automatically become a rss-with-enclosures file…’ Riffathon 2004/5 ‘…The Riffathon is an annual guitar competition designed to encourage players of all [...]