Lockdown Great bit of writing from Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper. It reminds me of the post from Anil Dash ‘The web we lost‘ and I’m not sure there is much greater praise I could offer at the moment. Marco rails at the way Google has treated RSS and how they have damaged the promise…

Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire This is a great article/profile on Jimmy Wales. I am a big fan of Wikipedia and I pay my membership to Wikimedia UK each year to stay involved. The relationship between Wales and Wikipedia itself has always fascinated me though – it is a pretty unique dynamic and…

  Words  This piece by Justin Jackson maybe one of my all time favourite things I have read on the web. It sums up my feelings about things more articulately than I could ever manage. Despite everything at its heart the web is all about words and that is what makes it special (to me…

Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility This is an article from January that has popped up a couple of times in my stream recently. After I mistakenly accused the Jisc website of having a carousel I was reminded of it again. The tide does seem to be turning against this feature on…

What If The Product Is The Service Is The Marketing? Great post from Emer Coleman (recently of GDS) about the changing face of ‘marketing and communications’ in this digital world of ours. I particularly liked this line “if you’re relevant and have standing in the conversation, then things like press releases become pretty irrelevant.” The…