Last year I wrote a post decrying the decision my favourite musician, Matthew Friedberger, to release 8 albums worth of material on vinyl only. Given that he apparently saw my post, judging by this tweet... MF's "Solos" now done. --Typical, in its way, fan testimonial: martinbryant.net/dont-make-me-b… — The Fiery Furnaces (@Fiery_Furnaces) November 18, 2011 ...it would be wrong of me to ignore the fact that a digital version is now available. The Diabolical Principle melts tracks from the…
Of all things I expected to wake up to find in my inbox today, a drawing of me depicted as Two-Face from Batman wasn't one of them, but here we are. I'm pretty sure that the folks at Australian site Mobile Phone Finder aren't trying to say that I'm a former District Attorney turned insane villain - this is more about getting people to link to their site by depicting a number of bloggers as Batman characters. But hey, it worked.…
I've got huge respect for the Web Summit team. They've built two of the best-respected tech conference brands around - the eponymous Web Summit (in Dublin and London) and f.ounders, the exclusive, invite-only event for some of technology's biggest names - "The Rolls Royce of tech events," as Zee once put it. Setting out to meet technology communities around Europe, the team is currently on a pub crawl around the continent, meeting people from Spain to Denmark for informal gatherings consisting…
This morning I gave a talk at the Communicate Magazine's HTML5 Communication seminar in London. My role was to give some examples of inspiring uses of HTML5 from around the Web. Here are the slides from my presentation.