Up and Coming

A mostly frus­trating day for me strug­gling with CSS and PHP for the site for our summer con­fer­ence day at work (to be revealed). I guess I learned a lot about both of those things in the struggle, though, so it will undoubtedly pay off eventually.

In the meantime, I want to sing the praises of Upcoming. It’s

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Blogging and Drinking

… are not normally to be mixed, of course.

But a night out with my friend Dave Cruickshank has proven too strong a lure. Having set much of the Web 2.0 world to rights, the theme of ‘crossing the chasm’ versus ‘the tipping point’ became the main topic.

For the unini­ti­ated, these two books, both

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On Being Memed

Kent Newsome — happily returning to blogging this month after an extended period AWOL — asks me to “Name five reasons why you do (or do not) respond to memes” and tagged me in the process. The answer is that I do and this is why:

1. He did it so very nicely that I would feel

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Sheer Idleness

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Perhaps. Just finished a post due to fire up at NMK tomorrow when I’m away at the Search Engines Strategies (London) con­fer­ence. Is anyone else going?

It’s my Valentines’ tie-​​​​in feature, which isn’t really neces­sary on NMK, but what the hell. Great timing from instrata to produce a press release about dating sites today.

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Two Tips

Subscribe to the Sense Worldwide news­letter for genu­inely inter­esting internet news that you haven’t already read a million times on blogs that think reading Techmeme is the same thing as finding inspir­a­tion. I used to think, in this age of RSS and at-​​​​your-​​​​convenience dis­tri­bu­tion, that the email news­letter was dead. It isn’t. There are a couple

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Boom or Bloom?

I’ve just wobbled home from Wobble 2.0, the first of the new Chinwag Live event series. The big question on every one’s lips was, of course, whether we’re in a new economic bubble.

Mike Butcher has seen more booms than Basil Brush thanks to his time spent at NMA and the Industry Standard.

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