Quoted in The Guardian!

It’s not often that my blog and I get a mention in The Guardian, or linked to! Funny what can happen when you install a widget without being suspicious!

Anyway, the full article is located here.

My job title is slightly inaccurate, as I was working for Emap Consumer Media at the time the article was being written, but the division has since been acquired by Bauer, so is now Bauer Consumer Media.

And editing Disposable Media is very, very much my hobby in my spare time, and one which I’m very fortunate my employers have allowed me to indulge up to this point. It has benefits for the company, in that I tend to be more experimental, and can understand community from two viewpoints…but my main role with Bauer is my employment and main focus..

The best widget on the internet

If you’re wondering what the best widget you can use is, then I’ve found it. And surprisingly, despite the fact my taste in blogs and websites is fairly liberal, it’s not being used very much, meaning you can become a trendsetter by copying and pasting.

It’s not a zombie bite in Facebook, it won’t display your latest Twitter update, it doesn’t show yur Xbox 360 gamertag or make Myspace actually worth using…

It simply shows a fragment of a text for which someone in the world has been imprisoned or punished, to try and stop censorship on the internet.


It’s from Amnesty International and can be found at http://irrepressible.info/addcontent.

And I’m amazed at the amount of people who blathered on about the restrictions of the Bloggers Code of Conduct, or could threaten Kathy Sierra etc, but won’t do something as simple as publishing a widget on their blog…

If you are reading this and feel inspired to include the Amnesty International widget, or you’ve already plugged it in, do let me know. At the very least it’ll restore my faith in part of humanity…