Writing tagged Misc
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Wired Index
The Wired Index is very similar to Wired UK’s advertising campaign from 1996.
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Pay-per-point
Pay-per-view seems a bit rude when you want to show people things. Maybe pay-per-point would be nicer.
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Sieve filters
My Sieve email filters, an example.
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Today’s Guardian feature requests
The three most common feature requests for the Today’s Guardian website.
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Today’s Guardian
The thinking behind my new Today’s Guardian website.
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Nothing else to do
Sunday’s aren’t what they used to be, but Tony Hancock’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon At Home’ reminds us what they were.
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What have we today?
Some clippings from the New Statesman’s ‘This England’ column from the early 1990s.
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Foods I craved
Food I wanted when on holiday in Morocco with stomach trouble
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This is an outrage
Frustration at both the Digital Economy Bill, but also at the Twitter echo chamber spouting nonsense about proceedings.
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SXSW 2010
I had a good time at SXSW, despite the conference itself being a bit uninspiring.
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SXSW & NY
I’m off to SXSW and then New York.
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Replace comments with letters pages
Maybe we should replace commenting on popular websites with letters’ pages.
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News week, day 2
I think I’m tackling the wrong problem with this project.
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News week, day 1
Frustrated after only one day of this news project.
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Next week’s news
What I plan to do next week: write a weekly news website.
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Small publishers of news
Wondering whether there’s a future for small publishers of news.
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Looking for news
Why I don’t read, watch or listen to any news, which isn’t a good thing.
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Pretend Office RSS feed improvements
The feed now includes the full text of emails sent to the mailing list.
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Finishability
BERG’s video about digital magazines mentions the importance of a magazine being finishable, which is also true for news.
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Making news easier to read online
The New York Times Skimmer is an improvement over most newspaper websites, but it’s not there yet.
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Not too many buttons
The problem with the OpenOfficeMouse isn’t too many buttons. It’s more fundamental.
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Flickr machine tags for film photos
Creating Flickr machine tags to store information about photos taken on film.
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Haddock Blogs down for a bit
Haddock.org is down for a bit, but the RSS feeds are now back up and running.
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Games have rules
Frustrated by the lack of rules in Foursquare making me feel like a loser.
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A still more glorious dawn awaits
Getting excited about outer space futures for the first time in years.