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Glastonbury - home to ley lines, juggling hippies, gurning students covered head-to-toe in mud and publicity-hungry minor celebrities showing off in their wellies. And, this year, they were joined by 407 BBC staff. Yep, 407.
When John Updike died in January – of lung cancer, aged 76 – it was received as dreadful news by most of his readers. Updike was still producing novels and stories at a dazzling rate; he was still granting interviews and grinning for photographers.
Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's arms around as a real cloud. A seemingly limitless pool of processors and memory and disk space, and you just scoop out what you need. Sounds great, doesn't it?
In the space between a long-form blog and a short-form Twitter account, there are mini-blog services like Posterous and Tumblr that seek to make blogging much more immediate, support all types of rich media, allow for longer entries if needed, and support short spurts that auto-post to Twitter as well. Once the niche powerhouse dominating this middle space, Tumblr has since seen Posterous, the ...
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