Stuart Johnston

A Poem on the Underground Wall (Last.fm) by Simon & Garfunkel.

Beautiful track, easily my favourite of theirs.

The Daily was launched yesterday, though the big story seems to be a sighting of an iPad 2 by Reuters.

The Daily looks interesting but Allen Weiner from Gartner nails the key issue for me:

Those on stage were naturally evasive about what “voice” The Daily will have. The answer of “that’s up to the editors” was clearly in deference to Murdoch’s presence on stage.

via Crooks and Liars

Not sure whether it’s scary or just funny.

by Foy Vance

Favourite track this week. Love the second half.

Available on his iTunes Live: London Sessions EP

The Iraq Inquiry published the transcript of Sir Richard Dearlove’s (Head of MI6) evidence.

After redaction, all that’s left on page 42 is: “Okay. Thank you.”

Insightful stuff.

Full evidence

Spring cleaning my feeds.

Out:

• Techcrunch
• AppleInsider
• FeedMyApp
• RubyCorner

In:

• Boy Genius Report
• betali.st
• NY Times Bits
• ReadWriteWeb
• The Next Web
• The Setup
• VentureBeat

37signals are retiring their support for OpenID in May.

I only used OpenID for Basecamp and a handful of other sites so its no big loss - particularly since 1Password is so easy to use.

Sunset over Portstewart

Watched The Switch tonight starring Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Jennifer Anniston.

Made the mistake of watching the trailer first. Looked really good but sadly all the good/funny bits where in the trailer. The actually movie was pretty dull and not that funny.

One to miss.

Helpful and easy to use banking app from First Direct.

Continually impressed by these guys.