Documents with Tails: Blogjects
Evidently there’s a nice new ‘theory object’ neologism for the class of things of which Documents With Tails are members: blogjects. Thanks for Stephen for reminding me to read that paper.
London Crawling
A while back, there was reported a new law enforcement surveillance system which could automagically switch/integrate multiple data feeds into a single presentation layer — designed to automatically follow individual people or vehicles, as they pass from one camera/feed to the next. Think it might have been a new toy from Qinetiq. Sounds like their kind of thing — 3D maps with patches of realtime footage from CCTV, helicopter cameras, whatever is available, all integrated in realtime for officers in the field or back at C&C. Anyway. Can’t find it on Google, but there were some very CSI-stylee screengrabs (probably …
The Italian Boj
Interval at Addictive TV/Optronica‘s night out at Waterman’s. Some fine fine short things — respect to Tom Wall and Somniscope [above], and of course Addictive themselves for a reprise of The Italian Boj, which was quite a thing last year at the South Bank…