Autumn 2010 is bearing a distinct resemblance to autumn 2009. It’s busy. But the excellent new PC Site website that we are just finishing off at work will be my last. After three years I’m going to try my hand at something a little different. If you want to keep up with my writing work, …
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Add ons for Firefox and other tools
My Firefox Add Ons This is a list for myself as much as anything. So, Peter. The next time that your computer breaks and is wiped clean by IT – then these are the main things that you need. Delicious Bookmarks – Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organised Firebug – Web …
Digital jobs (four of them)
We’re getting busier by the day at Net Media Planet. So busy, in fact, that we are currently recruiting for four new positions. So, hopefully you’re looking for a job in digital media. Hopefully you’re bright and passionate and you know a lot (or a bit) about Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and you’d like …
The General Election 2010. Ha ha ha.
Image credit: My David Cameron How to laugh at a politician On election morning I thought it’d be a good idea to look back at the last few months’ online political satire. I’m not sure that it has been quite the digital election that I was anticipating, with TV being, if anything, the defining medium, …
Google Caffeine: run as fast as you can
Search (or mathematics) A friend who works for the Times once told me the following story. The digital department had spent many hours redeveloping their website. They had tinkered with the site architecture, the wireframe and page design, and they had experimented with different types of content: audio, visual and interactive. Everything was ready to …
A Staffordshire shake up
Spring cleaning With a few afternoon hours on a public holiday to spare, I thought it would be a fine thing to give My Digital Notebook’s design a bit of a shake up. And with bigger pictures, videos and slideshows, I think that this theme works rather nicely. For the last five weekends I have …