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Links for Wednesday 11 April 2012

Your Choices | YourOnlineChoices UK: Opting out of ads that creepily follow you round the web. Includes advertising services that weren’t on the Network Advertising Initiative page I linked to a couple of weeks back. (via @rooreynolds)

11 Apr 2012 at Twitter

07:59am: I'll need to watch 'Caine's Arcade' again, just to counteract all the grumpy ranting Twitter delivered to me this morning. Twice.
04:55pm: I wrote this, poking at the idea of whether we’ve created Instagram’s value by posting our photos: http://t.co/wm12Iili
05:00pm: @holgate A pleasure. For once something nagging at my brain coincided with a moment of feasibly spare time at the computer.
06:13pm: @rooreynolds Yeah, I eventually went from intrigued to creeped out. Opting out of a bunch of ad networks has helped: http://t.co/ZFZIJGwy
06:58pm: @iamdanw @jonty A similar system was invented in 1927 http://t.co/ZtavjQ46 (plus my photos of the Barbican’s http://t.co/PugBJEon )
07:02pm: @jonty I think the Barbican Estate Office organised it, but I don’t think I’ve heard of them doing so since.
07:03pm: @jonty I think the system is only used by a minority of flats now. Not very eco-friendly and can be smelly.
09:26pm: HTML/CSS/JS for Client 1; to Greenwich for ace Client 2 meeting; to office; fixes for Client 3; blog post; home; 4 Whit Stillman blog posts.

The value of our historical Instagram products: Looking at the potential value of all the Instagram photos we’ve taken, with regard to Karl Marx, John Lanchester and Matt Webb.