Category: thoughts
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Doing dConstruct
After trying and failing to get tickets for the previous 2 years I have finally made it to dConstruct in sunny Brighton. Its slightly hard to describe dconstruct as an event. In theory its a web event…but no one really talks about the web. It most resembles a full day of the talks I would…
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2007 – a year of social media mania
In early summer 2007 I spent a month traveling across America with a bunch of complete strangers. It was an amazing experience and one I think I’ll always look back fondly upon. The funny thing is it clearly had some kind of effect on me and I returned with some kind of social media mania…
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Three of a kind [4]
Why your news site should never automatically open external links in a new window Martin Belam is making this case for news sites but I think it is true of just about every website out there and certainly every website I have ever been involved in. It is also true that I have had to…
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My Twitter Olympics
I wasn’t particularly excited about the Olympics. It seemed so London-centric and the insane concessions to sponsors pretty much disgusted me. While I am a fan of a fair few sports the Olympics has never really been something I engaged with so I fully expected to give it a bit of a wide berth and…
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Three of a kind
Three things I came across this week and found interesting enough to share :) Guess – there are services like BuiltWith and extensions like Chrome Sniffer that will tell you the frameworks, libraries etc that make up a website but Guess is particularly focused on identifying what, if any, content management system is publishing the…
