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7 months ago

in Viva La Vida: Coldplay Need A Good Lawyer on The Inquisitr
Ouch. It sometimes happens that you pick something up and then later when being creative "come up with" that something. cold comfort to both parties though. sucks to be in that fight.

On the other hand playing both together does sound cool aside from where the notes are discordant with each other.

7 months ago

in Telegraph.co.uk partners with Wesabe on personal money management site on The Evolving Newsroom
I guess as industry news goes it probably is quite interesting actually. I forget that coming from the bleeding edge of geek technology things take a while to filter through to every day use.
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Julie Starr I know what you mean, I forget that the New Zealand market isn't big enough or competitive enough to warrant the kind of big-budget integration project I worked on at the Telegraph.

It really does take a while for things to filter down.

I often meet people who see the web as something they might have to worry about 'later'.

Most don't know what RSS is or don't use it, few have heard of Twitter or Del.icio.us, the cloud is a moist thing in the sky, bookmarks are saved in a 'Favourites' folder, tags go in sheep's ears and not many people blog. In fact, lots think blogs are the sole preserve of talentless people who keep cats. Sigh.

7 months ago

in Whoops: turns out the Indian Navy didn’t sink a Pirate Ship last week, they sunk a hijacked vessel instead on The Inquisitr
Generally a mother ship is the ship that tends the others in the fleet "as mother". Surely you SciFi geeks should know that it's the big one. Generally in shipping we talk of "the flag ship" anyway. That being the best ship in the fleet with the highest ranking officer on board. As these terms also do not count when there is one ship I fail to see how any such terms apply. But if a fishing boat was "mother" that makes all the others pathetically small.

7 months ago

in Telegraph.co.uk partners with Wesabe on personal money management site on The Evolving Newsroom
If this had taken place five years ago it would have been newsworthy, ten and it would have been significant but web development is moving so fast this is rather middle of the road these days. That's not to say this is not a good move but just a very conservative one.
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Julie Starr Agree it's not particularly newsworthy Matt, just one small part of an arsenal of change brought about on telegraph.co.uk and countless other news sites over the past couple of years.

That said, there are not many partnership services like this on NZ news sites yet.

1 year ago

in Am I Really A Good Person? on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
My gut reaction would be to put you in the "good people" category too. I only know you through online chat, comments and the like but you seem level headed and not too snooty to talk to people. In my books "good" is a good word to describe you with...

1 year ago

in Am I Really A Good Person? on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
My gut reaction would be to put you in the "good people" category too. I only know you through online chat, comments and the like but you seem level headed and not too snooty to talk to people. In my books "good" is a good word to describe you with...

1 year ago

in Social Media Is Defining The New Rules Of Engagement on Go Beyond MLS
Amen.

This is very true - people have grown immune to hype and on the whole are only irritated by adverts. The business stone age is gone and we must leave it or be left behind.

1 year ago

in Another project - Public Swimming Pools in the UK - deferred until inspiration hits on deferred until inspiration hits
Go for it. Consider using strict xhtml with semantic id's so the entire site exists as a very rough XML of the data - that way other people can build on your work.

1 year ago

in Advertising Offer on Sage Blogger
I can't say much for the language it sounds like me half asleep and with a massive headache (*grins*). It is true that you will get a better conversion rate if you allow people to know the prices. I would say that your best bet would be an on site "squeeze page" that says what you get etc - and then passes you tot he sign up. That might work more effectively.

Also I've seen a lot of bloggers that give a breakdown of demographics of readers. I understand this works really well.
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