Net Culture
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Are Web Design Conferences Becoming Too Safe?
Earlier this week, Simon Collison revealed the first fruits of his newly established private entrepreneurship. ‘New Adventures In Web Design’ is an affordable one-day conference landing in Nottingham on 20th January 2011.
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Green My South By
Once again, I feel the duty falls upon me to remind those attending this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, that you really need not pick up that big, heavy, cumbersome and frankly useless bag of marketing junk.
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The Multipack Turns Four
The web development community has certainly grown up in the last four years.
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Birmingham City Council Versus the ‘Twitterati’
Last week Birmingham City Council launched its new £2.8m website. Delayed, over budget and woefully inadequate, it rightly faced a storm of criticism on Twitter and from the local press.
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Upcoming Attractions
As Summer hurtles towards it’s conclusion (and let’s assume for a second that it actually started) so the anticipation for two very special geeky events can begin.
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The Multipack Presents: Being Green
After the success of the first ‘Multipack Presents’ event in February, so we return to the plush offices of One Black Bear, this time to learn how the web can help us become eco-friendly citizens.
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Nothing Green About SXSW
Friday saw the start of this years SXSW interactive, film and music festivals in Austin Texas, and once again they highlight the scourge of swag: the ‘stuff we all get’ that soon becomes the stuff we don’t want.
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Wordle
A word cloud generated from content that has appeared on my site over the last few months.
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The Multipack Presents…
Every year the Multipack — a community of web developers based in the Midlands — seems to undergo a renewal, finding confidence to try new things. This year is no different.
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Christian Bale Rant: Batman Edition
I’ve not been able to get enough of Christian Bale’s recent rant on the set of Terminator 4, yet sadly there has only been audio available for this moment of madness.
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8 Random Things
It looks like my blog has been a little undernourished these last few months, but thanks to being tagged in a meme, I have an excuse to at least post something for the month of September.
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Whose Space?
I’ve held my tongue on MySpace for far too long, so let this be the first of many complaints I have about this service.
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If SXSW Made Beer, It Would Probably Be the Best Beer in the World
Before leaving for the airport, I sat in an isolated part of the Convention Center and felt a huge part of me not wanting to leave. I have been to a few conferences now, but SXSW is a stand out favourite.
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What If…
In just under a months time I will be turning my trousers brown before placing myself upon a small stage and speaking for just 2 minutes at 20x2 v7.0, a small event that takes place during the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
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Project 365: Taking One Photo Each Day During 2007
Taking and selecting a photo to mark each day is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while. Seeing as I already have a photo from the first three days of this year, I’ve decided to commit myself to recording 2007 by taking a photo each day.
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Moblogging: Results
As I indicated in a previous post, my trip to New York earlier this week was a good opportunity to try out the ‘Blog This’ feature of my new Sony Ericsson K800i, and I guess the whole concept of keeping a moblog as well. Here are some of my thoughts from this experiment.
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Moblogging in New York
Last week I upgraded my phone to the lastest Sony Ericsson — the "K800i. This is the fifth Sony Ericsson phone I have owned (previous models being the T68i, T610, K750i, W800i), which I think says a lot about how much I love the design of both the user interface and the phones themselves.
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One Year Stories
A lot has happened in the last year, and October seems to be a month for celebrating anniversaries.
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When Geeks Come Out to Play
Organised by Trevor Morris and presented by the Multipack, next month (August 27th) sees the first annual Geek in the Park.
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Enough of the Plodding, Time for Some Blogging!
I often hear from fellow bloggers, how they have a folder on their desktop full of half written posts intended for their blogs. For me, that folder of files seems to get stuffed in the deepest darkest parts of my brain. Every so often it will explode into verbal (but not physically written) prose, yet never make it onto the web.
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@media 2006
At the end of last week I attended the @media conference in London, the premier web-standards conference held in the UK. Having enjoyed myself so much last year, I was really looking forward to this, but somehow, I’ve come away feeling a little disappointed with the whole affair.
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Signature Tune
To make up for the lack of ‘life commentary’ on this blog these last few weeks, let me allow you to explore my musical taste.
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I Feel So Naked!
For today only, I’m letting you see under my CSS clothes and peak at my muscular (semantic) physique.
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Four Things
Show me a bandwagon and I’ll jump on it! Sadly I haven’t been tagged, but I’ve seen enough blogs that seemingly tag me by mere sight of them, so here goes.
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The Journey So Far
As of this week I am no longer an employee of Orange Vision Ltd, but working for Ning, Inc. where I am now a Senior Designer. It doesn’t take a genius to realise what a fantastic opportunity this is, and one I don’t think I have fully come to terms with.
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The ‘We’ in Web
Yesterday saw the inaugural meeting of a new Midlands based web community. This comes at a time when I’m noticing that I’m part of a much larger community within our industry.
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Reflecting on @media 2005
In traditional fashion, a week has passed before I can finally bring you my thoughts on what was certainly an interesting and exciting two days in London.
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Get Firefox
As Mozilla’s Firefox quickly approaches 1.0, there’s a campaign currently running to spread the word.