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Not a (digital) native
A term that comes up again and again in reference to the wider world of the web – and in particular around both mobile and social media – is ‘digital native’. I’ve seen a little burst of it being used again recently and while this is all old news for the folks who occasionally read…
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The Unveiling of #Alphagov
As my favourite 20th century philosopher once said; Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Bueller, F – 1986 So despite nominally being on annual leave today I was catching up on my Google Reader and scanning my Twitter feed and so was…
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Drumbeat 2011 – Media, Freedom and the Web
Alongside landing my job with the MRC probably my best experience last year (at least relevant to this blog) was my involvement as a blogger and conference attendee at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona. I met a whole heap of interesting people and had a great time exploring Barcelona for the first time as…
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Watching the Wikipedians
I spent a few hours yesterday at Bristol University listening to a few members of Wikimedia UK (and Alex making a guest appearance from DC) give some extremely helpful insights into the world of Wikipedia (and some of its related projects.) While I’ve never been an active editor of Wikipedia I have followed the project…
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WordPress Woo(hoo!)
I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…