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National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) Retrospective

As a bit of an experiment I participated in National Blog Posting Month for January 2009. It was a real test of discipline to write something every single day. But the goal was achieved and now I'm going to drop back to a less aggressive blogging schedule of

Has web 2.0 gone mainstream?

Given the statistics in this 2007 report from Avenue A Razorfish and recent anecdotal feedback from non-geek friends, students and relatives web 2.0 is firmly entrenched in the mainstream. Ordinary people regularly get their news by checking online newspapers, flick through YouTube when they are bored, share links

Future of the web

This chart from 2007 shows the trajectory of the web future moving in a straight line from where we are now (or were in 2007) to the future of web 4.0 and beyond. But I don't think that the future of the web will such a simple

News is really changing

There has been much talk of the death of mainstream media and the impact of the blogosphere on news gathering and journalism. People have pontificated long and loud about the rise of citizen journalism. But it seems that many have failed to see the breadth of this change. Thus not

Shanks' Pony (a.k.a. taking a walk)

This fine institution - shanks' pony - has been a vital part of human transport for generations. It is an old-fashioned term that means travelling by foot. I've been experimenting with this novel concept all week. Walking between appointments in the city during the business day (rather than

Goal setting is not enough

Many time and productivity experts recommend goal setting and suggest writing down goals to help focus on them. But what is it really that stops us from achieving those goals? Perhaps we are starting with the externals - i.e. the goals - before looking at the internals? We need to look

Ada Lovelace Day is 24 March 2009

Ada is an amazing role model for women in science and technology - more here. I'm always surprised to hear from people who have studied computing or programming but who don't know about Ada. Also worth looking at - to put Ada's achievements in context - is

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