I had my first letter printed by The Guardian in September 2000, 4 days after my 25th birthday. Talk about the ultimate present. It was in the Weekend magazine; it was a response to an on-going joke in the letters pages…
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A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 7
Once again, a week here is more like a fortnight. I was on holiday last week and couldn’t drag myself away from the pool to jot down any thoughts on the latest developments in tech. But this week, I hope…
Tagged with: Adidas, facebook, Instagram, journalism, Nike, Oddbins, Paddy Power, Publishing, Specsavers, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, Twitter
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Posted in A Week's A Long Time
The Guardian Likes Facebook
I just popped over to The Guardian site and noticed a bar running along the top of the page encouraging me to log in to The Guardian using Facebook, presumably based on my usage of their existing Facebook app. I’m…
Tagged with: facebook, open graph, social graph, social networks, The Guardian
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
The Paucity Of Tech Comment & Analysis
Last week SEOmoz announced that, after a couple of failed attempts, it had raised $18 million in funding. Now, I’m a fan, so I’m, biased, but to me this was a great story. A company that, to use the tech…
Tagged with: AllThingsD, Blogging, journalism, PandoDaily, Techcrunch, The Economist, The Guardian, The Kernel
Posted in Publishing
Posted in Publishing
All The News That’s Fit To Link
During the recent UK elections, The Guardian took to using a rolling-blog style of article to keep readers up-to-date with all the latest news around the campaign: in the frantic days during which the Tory/Lib Dem coalition came into being,…
The Guardian: The Scrooge Of SEO?
I am, as anyone who knows me would tell you, a massive fan of The Guardian. I get the paper delivered every Saturday (as well as The Observer, its sister paper, every Sunday). I have its Tech section set-as my…
Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells 2.0
As any of you who know me will be only too aware, I’m a sucker for a good bit of letter writing. Like the proverbial my Dad helped put men on the moon, whilst I develop Facebook strategies, so I…
Why Doesn’t The Guardian Like SEO?
It’s always sad when someone you look up to and admire rebuffs your affection. Like when the prettiest girl at school wouldn’t talk to you because you were a nerd (oh, sorry – was that just me? OK). So I’m…
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