http://www.microphonefire.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignright" width="378" caption="An image of the headlines listed on the NY Times site on the Third of March 2010"][/caption] The New York Times website has come up with a new(ish I’ve been pretty lazy with updating) way of displaying the news. It’s called the Times Skimmer http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ and I ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=76 I'm doing two subjects at uni at the moment, one is Technocultures and one is Introduction to Media and Popular Cultures, so I'm mainly thinking about media related things at the moment. Next week as part of a tutorial I have to give a presentation on someone's interpretation of McLuhan's ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=69 Photographs, for me, are on a trajectory that's essentially the opposite of petrol (or oil, depending on which crazy country you come from). When gas was cheap we would just drive around with our friends, and enjoy nothing more than the freedom. But then the price went up somewhat significantly ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=49 There's a really interesting iPhone twitter application called Twinkle. It covers the usual bases of allowing you to update your status and receive status updates from your friends, but also it does one more thing; It displays tweets from people who are near you, not just your friends. I found out about this ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=52 A few months ago I was talking to some friends about sending emails to lecturers (I know, we're an exciting lot), and the topic got on to how they start emails. It turned out people would go to great lengths to find out what the official title was (Dr, Prof, ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=32 Social psychologists seem to love two types of studies. The ones that either tell us what we already know 'People like attractive people' or the ones that tell us the complete opposite of what we thing 'The more people around, the less likely they are to help'. They like to get ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=35 [caption id="attachment_19" align="alignright" width="216" caption="The arrow pointing up shows approximately where Baarle-Hertog is, the arrow pointing right shows approximately where Maastricht is."][/caption] When I first looked at a map of where Maastricht, the town I'm studying at, is located I was kind of puzzled about why it was part of The Netherlands. ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=17 Introductions are one of those uncomfortable things that often make you have to think fast on your feet and come up with nice things to say about people. In the case of introducing a written piece I have the benefit of time, and an ability to edit. It follows, then, ... http://www.microphonefire.com/blog/?p=8