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A blog plug for something I’m not involved in…

December 8th, 2009 · Comments

I realise I’ve been blogging a fair bit about my day job recently – it’s hard to avoid when I work with really cool people who insist on launching interesting stuff all the time. But to redress the balance somewhat, here’s a plug for something really interesting for someone’s elses work.

It’s the awesome Slingers , [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture · Pop Culture - TV

Stocktwits gets funding, Bit.ly get’s safer, Cli.gs gets bought

December 2nd, 2009 · Comments

The Twitter ecosystem is busy as always, so rather than try to write 20 posts to cover everything purely for SEO benefit, I thought I’d round up three things which stood out:
Stocktwits has gained $3 million in another round of financing for the social and microblogging network for the stock market. It’s interesting that the [...]

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BBC reminds me of two elements of consumer satisfaction

August 17th, 2009 · Comments

I’m a big fan of much of the work the BBC does online, and in general it does a very good job of providing a massive amount of content in a fairly logical manner.
But using the site as a consumer with a couple of urgent needs highlighted a couple of things which I think are [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing

Creative inspiration – interviews with TV writers

January 8th, 2009 · Comments

It’s easy to like Charlie Brooker for his ability to rip something apart in a suitably scathing way, but sometimes he also betrays himself by giving away insights into how to build something up in the first place.
Which is why I’ve spent a happy 50 minutes watching a Screenwipe episode in which he interviews some [...]

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