D1.1. State of The Art and Requirements Analysis for Hypervideo from LinkedTV Interesting! BBC and ARD researchers quietly hammering away on methods to extract the visual language of cinema into structured XML. Sadly, though, the tradition that anyone in a use case must be the most boring person in the world is upheld. Also, “Nina,…
Read More A link.I have just realised I’ve also written notes expandable to about 800 words of final blog on what to do about the pathological firm, ranging over Occupy, MPs’ expenses, Corey Robin, conservative arguments for radical goals. Whew. And I have drafts on other subjects. But I think I’ll let the first one get home and…
Read More Closing the books on the weekOn a similar theme to the last post, this Twitter discussion led me to something interesting: https://twitter.com/relume1/status/265117766896476160 The linked Harvard Business School paper, which is good and worth reading, concludes that the craze for delayering in business since the 1980s, which was sold as a way of devolving decision-making authority to lower levels in organisations,…
Read More On the theory of the pathological firmSo, are we going to get the name of the Tory paedophile (or paedophiles) or the confirmation of just how far Becky Asbo and Dave from PR’s relationship went first? I just ask because I want to prepare for the inevitable storm-surge of everything that is creepy in advance. Sandbags. Back-up generators. Areas of wetland…
Read More The year everything went impossibly creepyI was recently pointed to NESTA’s report on innovation in the British economy and our recovery, or otherwise, from the Great Recession. This is a pretty good example of the first two functions in the post on thinktanks – it’s assessment and comparison first, with ideas arising from them – but that’s not really my…
Read More More radical consensus – the innovation strikeTristram Hunt: Perhaps an unfair comparison, but it does highlight two criticisms. The first is the lack of particularity: for a thesis so rightly concerned with the intimacies of national identity, this is a broad-brushed work of political science that seeks to impose the policy solutions of Canada and Australia on Britain. In particular, it…
Read More Tristram, not JeremyHere’s a story that throws light on a lot of things that are wrong with thinktanks, even the ones that have content beyond just wanktanking. Neil O’Brien has advice for the Tories. O’Brien observes that only rich people, and specifically rich people from southern England, want to vote Conservative, and that this is not enough…
Read More In which I write the piece on thinktanks Dsquared promisedReally superb study of the Iraqi post-Ba’athist insurgent movement led by Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. Yes, that’s the guy who was a deputy of Saddam’s and about number three in the pack of cards, still out there to this day. Similarly, how the Americans were still trying to make Iyad Allawi boss of Iraq, even backing…
Read More LinksEnjoyed that K-pop Downfall refix viral? Here’s something, from following various twitter feeds. China’s Navy Flexes Its Muscles (i.e. stages a fleet live-fire exercise) and We Just Out Here Trying To Function And Smoke. The news broadcast about the Chinese naval exercise fits really well over the intro, as I discovered thanks to a browser…
Read More [frivolous]So we now know that the thing invented to bully the exam boards because the Mail said so bullied the exam boards because the Mail said so, and no doubt something about Michael Gove will be along soon enough. How did people notice there was something up in the first place? Well, the long-term rise…
Read More Gove did it to A-levels as well