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Weblogging Links…

A few interesting links about weblogs that have emerged recently (including a few about new-favourite-subject: permalinks) – many of these links taken from Many to Many: Permalinks considered harmful “So basically, we have a nice concept of weblogs, but one of the key elements, permalinks, is being treated like a necessary evil, and hidden away. […]

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Why Content Publishers shouldn't host weblogs…

This is a post about why mainstream content publishers shouldn’t host weblogs on their sites – and the special circumstances under which they might be able to make it work. Firstly the reasons why they shouldn’t do it: If you have an established and authoritative brand associated with the fact-checked information that you publish, you […]

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Technology

On the ethics and responsibilities of running a web-site…

The ethical and legal problems that occasionally Google is confronted with are essentially the same as any site run by any individual or business: Do I have an obligation to the people who use my site? How do I reconcile that with legal considerations? How do I reconcile that with my personal need to make […]

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On the World's Best Newspaper Website…

The World’s Best Newspaper Website? Astonishing, ground-breaking, “future of the web” kind of stuff – the International Herald Tribune‘s site screams class while being incredibly functional. It’s not immediately intuitive because it really is such a leap into the future, but it comes with this kind of functionality: CSS and DHTML coding keeps the important […]

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On a web-based intermediary for hit-men…

Katy and I have just had a great idea for a new money-making venture targetting a completely underexploited section of the e-marketplace – professional hitmen and the criminally violent. The idea is just like that in Strangers on a Train, where two people arrange to kill each other’s worst enemy. Since there is no connection […]

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How I stay informed…

A few months ago, a lovely chap called Kavi Guptta asked me how I stay informed. I wrote way too much and he had to edit it down aggressively. For anyone who is interested, here are my full, unedited responses… Describe your daily reading habit: My reading habits have changed a lot over the years. […]

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Links for 2007-11-18

Fire Eagle and Brickhouse make Business Week The recent press around Fire Eagle has been pretty interesting. It’s always interesting to see where they get some of the facts wrong. Helps me work out where we’ve not got it quite right yet. John Gisby’s headed over to Channel 4. He’s a nice chap who I […]

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On writing my talk for dconstruct…

A few people have asked me to put up my slides for the dconstruct talk. However, I’m going to be doing a variant on the talk at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin in a few weeks so I thought I’d let it relax a bit in my head and see if there’s anything I’d like to […]

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Links for 2007-07-12

Poor old Mr Vander Wal, a YouGov survey of the hated technology terms puts folksonomy out in front… It seems a bit unfair since it’s such a specific piece of terminology, but hey. I still prefer fauxonomy. It’s funnier. Also hated blogosphere and blog. One of the founders of Blogger once told me she felt […]

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Links for 2007-04-19

Those lovely chaps at Moo have launched their second product – attractive combo post/greetings cards that you radically personalise… I got a few of these a few days ago as part of their beta-testing programme and they’re pretty lovely. I’ll probably post a snap of them on Flickr if you’re in the area… Josh Clark […]