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5 random things about me meme

December 11th, 2008 · Comments

Back in October I tagged Danie with the Three for Three meme, and as a type of blogging revenge, she’s countered tagged me to respond with ‘5 random facts about me’.
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Whilst working for www.motorcyclenews.com I once managed to crash a mini-motorbike without leaving the office car park. It may have involved jumping a kerb and [...]

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Tags: Funny

Are web companies as bad as Hollywood with releases?

August 15th, 2008 · Comments

It’s easy within the Web 2.0 technology bubble to poke fun at other industries that don’t get it – for instance, Hollywood complaining about piracy, and yet still releasing films in different countries at different times.
And yet there is still a huge U.S. bias in software online. I know a lot of the big online [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture

Twitter shakes the ground under major news websites: How they have to adapt

July 30th, 2008 · Comments

It’s happened again. Yet again, an earthquake has occurred, this time in the U.S. – and yet again I found out about it from Twitter as it happened, rather than from one of the news websites minutes later. In fact, I’d even reported on it, and uploaded an image from Twitter to 140char.com before the [...]

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Tags: journalism · twitter