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Some great, controversial, magazine covers
From TwistedSifter. Number 15 is the most striking…
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Unusual clouds
Some rather amazing cloud photos from the Guardian. I love cloud photos.
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Tumblr and Twitter aren't friends any more...
From TheNextWeb: The enormous blogging platform Tumblr appears to have become the next property after Instagram to have its friend-finding privileges revoked. The option to find people that you know using Twitter has been removed from the site after its axing was predicted by Matt Buchanan in an article on
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Are ad-funded social networks like Facebook and Twitter on their last legs?
Facebook. Twitter. When you ask most people what ‘social media’ is, chances are it won’t be long until they mention one or both of those. I’ve written before about how both of these are really just advertising businesses, but two things have happened recently that make me think
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The Olympics: better than they looked on the tin
Charlie Brooker: Understand this: for 100% of my life so far, I found watching sport – any sport – marginally less interesting than watching cardboard exist. Now my eyeballs are eating it up, even while my brain fails to make sense of it. This. For the past two weekends, this.
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Why I love practicising Yoga
Where I was, 20 minutes ago…I’ve just finished a 20 minute yoga practise, at the end of a mentally taxing day. In 20 minutes I’ve moved from being slightly stressed and tired, to being relaxed, and happy. You might consider that bollocks, and wonder if I’ve
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Hey @greateranglia, you're frustrating me...
I’m a bit frustrated with Greater Anglia, and let me tell you why. Back in December 2011, I wrote a post asking a few questions of them as a new operator, and in February 2012 I interviewed them via email about how they’ve been using Twitter to better
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Me, drumming (video)
Video below of me performing with some old and dear percussive friends, for The Big Dance Day in Ipswich, in the gorgeous Spiegeltent. I’m the one in the middle, not the one in the white dress…
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Hanging out
In a pre-emptive move against potential Olympic travel woes, over the next two week’s we’re experimenting with getting our team to work remotely as much as we can. As part of our experiment we’re trying out Google+ Hangouts [2. Think Skype’s video calling feature, but with
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"Late bloomer, not a loser"
Such a great post from Dave McClure, found via the excellent Svbtle blogging network: and so here I am: still standing in the arena, in hand-to-hand combat with demons mostly of my own making, aiming to make a small dent in the universe. nowhere near a great success story, yet
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FINDS 2 - a crowdfunded photography project
Speaking of crowdsourced funding my brother Harry is launching a new photography project, and he’s looking for donations. The original issue of FINDS was distributed guerilla-style during the Brighton Fringe Festival 2010 and around various locations in London, creating a social frenzy to ‘find’ FINDS. FINDS was a great
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The Good Internet
It’s easy to be cynical when you work in marketing, especially if your work involves the web, and ‘social media’. It’s easy because a lot of the time things get made more complicated than they need to be. There’s obfuscation between what people think the social web