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On holiday...
I went on holiday yesterday, and, with the exception of my commitment to write a blogpost for Ada Lovelace Day, I'm also going to be taking a long overdue holiday from blogging. currybetdotnet will be back in April. In the meantime, here are some dates for your diary, of things I'm speaking at or attending over the next few weeks. March 30th: I'll be chairing "London IA 2010 on Innovation" which features speakers Richard Rutter, Glenn Jones, Claire Rowland and...

Published March 12, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 6 - Germany, Canada, and video overview
Over the last week or so I've been reviewing online newspaper coverage of the recent Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. In the final part of this series, I want to look at elements of coverage in Germany and Canada, and present an overview video with some clips of the sites in action.

Published March 12, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 5 - Austrian coverage
The fifth part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is an overview of some of the features that appeared in the Austrian press before the games got underway.

Published March 11, 2010 - Read the full post

Whatever Paul Waugh thinks, The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment was no "total failure"
In describing The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment as a "total failure", the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh gives us a glimpse of one of the reasons the traditional media industry finds it hard to innovate with technology.

Published March 10, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 4 - "The Twitter Olympics"
In part 4 of this series examining online coverage by newspapers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I'm looking at uses of Twitter from Sweden and Germany, and a community platform in South Korea.

Published March 10, 2010 - Read the full post

"We should have hung them when they were ten. Killing children is wrong" - Retweeting without verification
Yesterday I tweeted a comment I'd noticed on the Daily Mail website underneath an article about Jon Venables: Best ever user comment in the Mail? "We should have hung them when they were ten. Killing children is wrong" http://bit.ly/cTnFrE Whether the original comment was intentionally funny or not, my message got retweeted quite a bit, and I noticed something curious about the way it was distributed. A lot of the retweets missed off the link to the source. People echoed...

Published March 9, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 3 - Online tabloids in Sweden
In the third part of this series, I'm reviewing the very similar online coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from two of Sweden's biggest papers - Aftonbladet and Expressen.

Published March 8, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 2 - Visual navigation in Italy and France
The second part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games has a focus on visual navigation elements appearing in France and Italy.

Published March 5, 2010 - Read the full post

The Winter Olympics online review: Part 1
The opening post in a series looking at online newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from around the world.

Published March 4, 2010 - Read the full post

Privacy, distribution, licences and standards - more notes on the London Linked Data meet-up
In the last of several posts around the web about the 2nd London Linked Data meet-up, here are my notes on issues of privacy, distribution, software licences and setting usable standards for open linked data.

Published March 3, 2010 - Read the full post