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Make Government websites like Facebook

08 Feb '10 | New media

Or perhaps like an operating system with a consistent user interface, access to data and applications and less Comms-spinned content.


Yahoo! & the Taiwanese Hack Girls: If girls & Gods can mix so can girls & geeks

20 Oct '09 | Miscellaneous

Chris Yeh, Head of Yahoo! Developer Network apologised for the female dancers hired to make the Taiwan Open Hack Day a little bit more spicy. He shouldn’t have. 8XN43YTET69W.


Is Facebook helping phishers hack email accounts?

13 Oct '09 | New media

Social networks contradict themselves when they state in their terms that users should not share their accounts and passwords and then ask people, duing sign-up, to submit their web mail details to ‘invite’ their friends too register too.


Online newspapers need their own economy

11 Sep '09 | New media

The question shouldn’t be ‘how can we engage readers to the point they are happy to pay for content?’ but a much more ambitious model where users can earn, spend, invest and speculate as part of the experience.


EBRD Blog: transitioning towards... web 2.0

20 Jul '09 | Miscellaneous

Good to see my former colleagues in the EBRD Comms department trying to make the most of new media. But I don’t think they haven’t got it quite right yet.


The site's first special feature: Google Chrome OS, simply put

15 Jul '09 | architxt.net

Purpose of the guide is to explain in simple terms what Google Chrome OS is, who it’s for and what you can do with it.


Why Building43 isn't a... community

11 Jul '09 | New media

I’ve had a look at the latest Rackspace / Robert Scoble effort and didn’t find much of a community. I found a blog.


Why not Pay-As-You-Use?

01 Jul '09 | New media

Why do we have to buy set amounts of things and not just pay what we use?


Logos with a distinct dot.com flavour

27 Jun '09 | architxt.net

A selection of logos for websites I have designed.


A renaissance for bibliographies

25 Jun '09 | New media

No one likes bibliographies. For writers, it’s the final, tedious step before completion of a piece. Readers ignore them altogether.