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“It’ll never happen to me”
2008-02-25 14:45:00 …but it did. Just less thana year ago my wallet and all but one of my debit cards were stolen, including one for a business account that’s no longer used. Now I find I’ve racked up an overdraft of £54. Not a huge amount, but frustrating nontheless. A month or so ago I got a call from the company I used to bank with when I ran my former consultancy, MSO Media. They did their usual trick of asking me to tell them who I was, and when I refused I was sent a letter…to an old address. They rang back today to tell me that I had an overdraft and to ask when I would be thinking of paying it. I explained that I’d had my wallet stolen quite a few months ago, but that when I had tried to report the loss of this particular card to the bank after reporting it to the police, the number I was given by their website didn’t work! How’s that for customer care? Because there was no balance on the account and (I thought) no overdraft facility, I saw no harm in letting it g...
Play beat Amazon to the punch
2008-02-15 16:06:00 play.com, the place for CD and DVD on the cheap has beaten Amazon .co.uk to the punch by selling DRM-free music downloads online, via the catchy URL http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download/6- /DigitalHome.html. As a rule, all of their content comes without digital rights management (so no limits on burning or transferring your tracks) and there’s no horrid propriatory software to download. Once you’ve bought your tracks, you can access them again and again through your account. Brilliant! The selection they’re offering is surprisingly good, considering they must’ve done a hell of a lot of negotiating with the Big 4 in order to secure their distribution rights. and they’re boasting quite a respectable “coming soon” list, including the superb Duffy. Last year Apple were beaten at this game by Amazon in the US, who offered a much wider range of unprotected music than iTunes Plus, also without the need to download their hideous software, but Amazon UK have been lazy,... More About: Play , Beat , Punch , The Punch
How to make sense of your blog
2008-02-14 01:28:00 The Web is a pretty relaxed place, and no-one really gets too hung up on “correct” use of English, but not everyone’s content makes sense because people often forget some of the simplest rules of the language. If your content doesn’t make sense (if you say “was” instead of “were” for example, or you capitalise random words or forget to format your text), it might make sense to you and to many others, but little wrinkles like that can become a minefield for those for whom English is not their first language, or for people using screen readers or text-only browsers. Because I love writing for the Web and reading what others have written, I thought I’d present my Three Pillars to Better Online Writing. Please note, I’m not trying to wag my finger at anyone or be a grammar bully, but if we all obey a few simple rules, it makes reading people’s content a lot easier. It’s worth mentioning before we get into the ... More About: Sense , Blog , Make
Chris Moyles: arse about Facebook
2008-02-11 23:31:00 BBC Radio 1, not content with polluting the air with garage music and low-grade techno have now found a new, even clumsier way of “relating to” us kids. It’s called Facebook . Heard of it? Well this is the new bee-in-the-bonnet for Chris Moyles and his team: Aled, their sometime day producer has made it his personal mission to setup and promote what he calls the show’s “fan page” on Facebook. It’s a reasonably-well put together page, and Aled makes good use of the site’s update system. But what niggles me is not the page itself, it’s the idea that someone thinks they “should be on” Facebook. Essentially the people who inhabit social networking sites “because they should” are those who, ipso-facto, are the least suited to do so (to paraphrase Douglas Adams). If you’re not going to take the time to understand and then fully engage in a site like Facebook - or even, heaven forbid MySpace - then why bother signing up in the first place? The Chris Moyles Show i... More About: Arse
Please God, let it be good!
2008-02-11 00:45:00 You find me sitting in my dirty flat with my neglected cat Misty munching on a crisp sandwich and feeling very sightly drunk. The flat is dirty because I’ve been focused diligently on my latest project for the past 48 hours and have not had the time to clean. The cat is neglected because I have been knee deep in audio clips and have not had the time to give her the love and attention she deserves, and I am munching on crisp sandwiches because I am an unsophisticated man who likes crisp sandwiches. I am slightly drunk because I have drunk a decent amount of alcohol. This is in turn because my new baby is having its first day at school and I’m worried it might get bullied. The first episode of the New Media Junkie podcast which was uploaded today, is the first of what I hope to be a long-running series. I’ve always been a massive fan of radio, and even as a kid wanted to be a DJ. Maybe the podcast will demonstrate why I’m not the right man for the job. It’s a very odd posi... More About: Good
Link exchange request
2008-02-05 13:10:00 An email I just received from oswaltech.com More About: Link Exchange , Exchange , Link , Request
Link exchange request
2008-02-05 13:10:00 An email I just received from oswaltech.com More About: Link Exchange , Exchange , Link , Request
Embrace the change
2008-01-26 18:08:00 Why am I intent on writing everything myself when there are so many great web apps around? More About: Change , Embrace
Embrace the change
2008-01-26 18:08:00 Why am I intent on writing everything myself when there are so many great web apps around? More About: Change , Embrace
Embrace the change
2008-01-26 18:08:00 I used to think of web apps like WordPress, FeedBurner and Flickr as tools for the uninitiated, the non-programmers, people who want a quick and easy website and a quiet life. I didn’t for a second begrudge the fact that fewer “techies” were contributing to the Web; my reasoning was that, by using these apps and linking to them on your site rather than developing the functionality yourself, you were sacrificing control. And that’s still true. You can’t tailor Flickr to render your slideshow as you might want it - what if you don’t want cross-fading? What if you hate Flash? Blogger templates might be fiddly and WordPress is written in a language you might not be familiar with. But the question is: why does all that matter? Why does everything need to fit so nicely? Do people look at sites that embrace these apps - sites like carsonified.com or jonbounds.co.uk who are both developed by developers incidentally - and think “well they obviously don’t know what t... More About: Change , Embrace
Say goodbye to the ?BBC style?
2008-01-14 14:26:00 The BBC's new layout goes into beta More About: Style , Goodbye
Say goodbye to the ‘BBC style’
2008-01-14 14:26:00 The BBC's new layout goes into beta More About: Goodbye
It’s all broken!
2007-12-06 15:21:00 I can’t help wondering why almost nothing works propertly anymore More About: Broken
It?s all broken!
2007-12-06 15:21:00 I can?t help wondering why almost nothing works propertly anymore More About: Broken
It?s all broken!
2007-12-06 15:21:00 I can?t help wondering why almost nothing works propertly anymore More About: Broken
It’s all broken!
2007-12-06 15:21:00 I can’t help wondering why almost nothing works propertly anymore More About: Broken
The Internet: It'll never catch on
2007-12-04 21:50:00 I find some words of wisdom from 1996 on the ?future? of the Internet More About: The Internet , Catch
The Internet: It'll never catch on
2007-12-04 21:50:00 I find some words of wisdom from 1996 on the “future” of the Internet More About: The Internet , Catch
The Internet: It'll never catch on
2007-12-04 21:50:00 I find some words of wisdom from 1996 on the “future” of the Internet More About: The Internet , Catch
The Internet: It'll never catch on
2007-12-04 21:50:00 I find some words of wisdom from 1996 on the ?future? of the Internet More About: The Internet , Catch
Webmonkey goes for a Burton
2007-12-03 09:04:00 UK web design directory disappears into a puff of error message More About: Burton
Webmonkey goes for a Burton
2007-12-03 09:04:00 UK web design directory disappears into a puff of error message More About: Burton
Webmonkey goes for a Burton
2007-12-03 09:04:00 UK web design directory disappears into a puff of error message More About: Burton
Webmonkey goes for a Burton
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