Friday Chill Out: a day in the life of the Olympic Park
Go HD, full-screen and ramp up the volume:[via Ciarán Norris].
View ArticlePeak hype?
The 2012 Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies seems to have snuck out this year, without realy catching the blogosphere's attention. The one thing that struck me this year is just how densely...
View ArticleWhy your website is ugly
We’ve seen traditional publishers we applaud for beautifully designed print publications throw out their own rulebook for their web-based versions. High-end design, it seems, has been viewed as...
View ArticleQuick wins vrs long-term victories
We've seen this movie before. In the early days of the web, it was the website that created a browser-fueled gold rush — until organizations realized that maintaining a website that provided real value...
View ArticleThe Assange Myths
Nice post on the New Statesman from David Allen Green, attempting to bring legal facts to the many consipracy-ish theories around the Julian Assange situation.
View ArticleFriday chill out: The iPhone 5 - everything you ever needed
Please tell me how much fun I'm having. . .
View ArticleThe HTML5 speed tax
It's odd, given how much HTML5 is celebrated as the grand panacea that will save us all from nasty native apps, that what should be the flagship example - the Facebook app - has just shifted from HTML5...
View ArticleLiveblogs! On a Podcast!
Rachel from journalism. co. uk was kind enough to interview me for a podcast on the fine and ancient art of liveblogging, alongside such luminaries as Neil Macdonald and Josh Halliday of something...
View ArticleSaturday morning coffee reading - 25th August 2012
Five things that are worth reading over your morning coffee. . . The shop window is the only place to be in the digital high street - a nice summation of the problems with Apple's Newsstand, based on...
View ArticleDeep follows wide - why Facebook went native
By allowing us to write once and ship across multiple platforms, HTML5 has historically allowed us to keep the Facebook mobile experience current and widely available, and has been instrumental in...
View ArticleThe "placed" story and other failures of journalism
A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story, paid for and produced by...
View ArticleBoss free? Or co-owned?
Oddly, since my "liberation" from corporate life, I've become fascinated by alternative working models. This is just fascinating:.
View ArticleThe Zeitgeist Project - speakers liveblogged
The Zeitgeist Project is a response to the "noise" of all the consumer electronics companies 'shouting' their products at us at IFA. It turns the idea on its head, focusing on the people and working...
View ArticleThe Zeitgeist Project: The Curators Objectify
The one speaker that frightened the life out of him was the Google guy. He wanted his lifestyle and his pay check. He was talking about the physical all the time. Google don't do physical - but if they...
View ArticleHacks/Hackers Brighton tomorrow: popup newsrooms and community clinics
In the Brighton or Sussex area? A coder or a journalist? Then we'd love to see you at Hacks/Hackers Brighton, because there are some great things in store:.
View ArticleAral on identity and privacy - Hacks/Hackers Brighton
He's going to talk to us about identity and privacy. He's an experience designer. He makes things for people - mainly virtual products, his focus is on the human side of things.
View ArticleJoanna Geary: So, that online community stuff - it's all sorted now?
In 2010, the last national reporter picked up a Twitter account, and we're done with online community.
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