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  • The Emperor Has No Clothes on Nov 23, 2009 in delusion of crowds Facebook information media

    Slacktivism has been exposed as a joke. Half way through last week a nation erupted; the Republic of Ireland football team crashed out of the World Cup at the hand of Gaul, that of a certain Thierry Henry. A Facebook group was established. It took...

  • Product Over Platform on Nov 18, 2009 in mobile

    Jase Bell made a prediction in his startup column in yesterday’s local press regarding the proliferation of small home-based projects in response to hard times in corporationland: “With the amount of high-tech skills out there I predict a...

  • Friday Linkdump on Nov 13, 2009 in linkdump

    linking to a specific time frame in youtube vids - append ‘#t=xmys’ to the url, where x,y are the number of seconds, minutes respectively like this picked this up late - you can now delete your GAE apps the great big massive ’subsc...

  • MW2: The First 12 Hours on Nov 10, 2009 in gaming

    First of all - thanks Asda for selling it at 32 quid. Played single player reg through til completion and while it was as polished as you’d expect from the Modern Warfare franchise it failed to eclipse the heart-pounding immersive nervousness o...

  • Nofollow Stops Google Indexing Your Site on Nov 9, 2009 in web Google

    I posted about Google’s inhouse deadpool a couple of weeks back.  Strangely though although I use one of the wordpress sitemap plugins to update mine accordingly Google stubbornly refused to index it.  The reason? Google appears not to add pa...

  • The Google Deadpool on Oct 28, 2009 in web Google

    Mobile, Music, Real-time and er, that watery thing - make no mistake about it, Google is the new borg. But they don’t always succeed. Like the finely tuned crack team of elite geeks they are, they bury their mistakes. For this piece I’...

  • Apparatchiks Vs Technocrats? on Oct 25, 2009 in Tech Labours

    This was sitting in draft form for a while now - I’m not sure why but probably until I fleshed it out a bit more. Here it is in unbridled terseness Let me begin by saying I don’t want this blog infected with politics. Notwithstanding thi...