Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
We seem to have had such a dull, damp and dismal start to 2006 in London. So much so I’ve lost track of what season it is (although I see next week’s weather forecast is suggesting we’re going to be plummeted straight back into winter). The plants carry on doing Read more …
London Bloggers is a seemingly simple site which allows people to list and promote their London-based blogs. Nothing remarkable there, but the real beauty is the way they have structured the site, based on the London tube map. If you’ve seen previous posts on this blog, or browsed through some Read more …
The Way We See It is a fairly new site which gives a challenge every week – to go out and photograph a nominated London location. I haven’t been able to try it out myself yet as all the locations are in central London, but it looks like fun. Comparing Read more …
Living in West London, the site of a flock of parakeets is not as unusual as it may be to other visitors to Kew Gardens, but seeing what must have been well over a hundred surrounding an old field of sunflowers was certainly a unique site. plantsandanimals/animals/birds/051022024.jpg plantsandanimals/animals/birds/051022032.jpg You can Read more …
One of my favourite sites used to be The Big Smoker, a blog about life in London. A year go it was changed to londonist.com, and though I don’t think it’s as good in some respects now it has gone ‘mainstream’, it’s still a good read. 127They’ve recently run a Read more …