Memex 1.1

Wow! iPod eBooks Creator…

This utility/PHP script loads a large text file and splits it into notes for use on iPod. It is easy to read your book in plain text format on your iPod via Notes functionality. All notes will be automatically linked, so you can move from one to another with absolute ease. It’s as simple as turning pages of the book…

Very nice New Yorker piece by Stacy Schiff about Wikipedia. And an interesting comment on it by David Robinson, who was a guest blogger on Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker.

James Cridland’s in Berlin and has seen the future.

The television has DS:F on it, which until recently has been showing a motor-sport type show, and is now showing what QuizCall would look like if it was also a porn channel. A leggy blonde in yellow hotpants is asking questions to a caller – they could win 200 euros – and has just peeled off her top to display a fearsome set of headlights. She’s now stroking her hotpants suggestively. This is the German equivalent of ITV1, at 10.50pm, folks. This is what might happen at home. Please write to the Daily Mail now…