Science commons, the video, explaining all about how the science commons works.

Adobe have been working on a cool user interface for visualising how web pages have changed over time, called Zoetrope.

From Technology Review: Back-Button to the Future.

One of the latest impressive innovations to come out of Google is that they have speech recognition software good enough to automatically index audio and video streams and make the spoken word searchable. Due to the impending presidential election, the project is currently focussed on political speeches, and makes it easy for you to compare what different politicians have said about any particular issue. You can find it here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

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UPDATE: I've reconsided my position on this, and I think I've underestimated the issues involved in keeping the bytes safe. I'll write up some notes here.

I've not really had a chance to blog about what I do now, and how it's different from what I did before. In a nutshell, I help create software for Digital Preservation. This is an interesting field, as it is full of problems that sound like they should have been solved, but haven't...