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The best stickers ever

Les Invasions Ephémères is a really *fabulous* Paris-based (but you can buy online and they ship to the UK) company that does decorative stickers. Normally I find it hard to get excited about decorative stickers, but these are in a whole different league. Their interiors stickers are completely poetic and charming, but I am especially mad about the ones they do for various pieces of technology. I mean, look:

And so on. I could post the whole range, really - everything is lovely. The stickers are inexpensive and would make fantastic presents. Here's the online shop. 

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Alltop is brilliant

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Beautiful home phones

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National Assembly for Wales Cross Party Digital Group #digitalwales

Tomorrow evening is the inaugural meeting of the National Assembly for Wales's Cross Party Digital Group (6pm, Tuesday, 10th November, 2009 - Conference Room 21, Tŷ Hywel, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay)

It's going to take the format of panel discussion and questions, chaired by Rory Cellan Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent, asking the question:

"How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?"

Panelists include:

• Sarah Hunter, Google's Head of UK Public Policy. Her background is in Government, where she was a Special Adviser for two Culture Secretaries, and was Tony Blair's Senior Policy Adviser on Culture, Media and Sport.
• Karina Brisby, who has led the campaign and advocacy digital strategies for Oxfam since 2004, as the Head of Digital Campaigns for Oxfam GB, where she has focused on supporting global efforts to end poverty and injustice, such as; Make Poverty History, In My Name and ClimateVoice.
• Jag Singh, a veteran of American political campaigns. He is currently Chief Information Officer at online campaigning and advertising agency MessageSpace in London, which aims to connect a politically influential and aware audience with brands and organisations that aim to harness the new participatory processes taking place on the Web. Jag has worked for Democratic Presidential candidates (Wes Clark, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton), as well as Senators and Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Georgia, on both sides of the political aisle. His specialisation revolves around using technology for voter/stakeholder profiling and contact, but has more recently branched out into targeting voters and audiences online.

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Live TV on your iPhone

If you have an iPhone, this lets you watch live TV from your handset. It's not an app - it's free and there are no downloads. Just point your phone's Safari browser to www.iphone.tvcatchup.com, and lo. It's amazing. Also it means that if you're stuck at a boring dinner-party tonight, you can pretend you have cystitis and keep escaping to the loo for your X Factor fix. The joy! UK only, also works with iPod Touch.

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WikiReader

The WikiReader is a funky Hitch-Hikers Guide style gadget that gives you Wikipedia in your pocket. I love the form, the touchscreen, the low power consumption, the low price and that it uses a MicroSD card. You can subscribe to bi-annual updates and they will post you the cards, or you can download the (4GBs of) data yourself.

     

Click here to download:

WikiReader_tag_brainfart_gadge.zip (179 KB)

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Upgrading my Eee PC to 2GB of RAM

And I'm pleased to report that it was as dead easy as it looked, took five minutes and caused zero complications. I can't say that I've noticed any speed bump though.

I also bought a 1GB SD card for about £3.40, which I plan to just leave in the SD slot instead of the blank piece. Next on the list: Mobile broadband dongle and big extra battery...

       

Click here to download:

Upgrading_my_Eee_PC_to_2GB_of_.zip (1710 KB)

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I still haven't find the perfect place to read my RSS feeds... Any suggestions?

• I use Google Reader for EVERYTHING I find and want to check back on occasionally.
• I tried feedly for a while. It's pretty good, but I didn't like how it chose to present the feeds to me.
• I like Netvibes, and use it as my homepage on all my computers, but I keep my feeds on separate tabs, and don't delve into them that often.
• I briefly used Thunderbird as a reader, but never liked it (I always click through to interesting stories). 
• Standalone readers won't work for me for the same reason.
• I don't like friendfeed for RSS either.

Is there anything else I could try? What do you use?

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So I just joined Strands - *another* lifestreaming service

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