links for 2010-10-12
by Martin Belam, 12 October 2010
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Roo delves into some data on Twitter activity around the transmission of episode 1 of this year's Apprentice series. he's also made the datasets available.
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"Thing is, many journalists, much of our journalism has forfeited the right to distinguish itself from things like gossip, rumour, fabrication that are/were the hallmarks of what we used to think of as non-journalism."
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Say goodbye to productivity today - working Asteroids game in HTML5
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When you shorten a URL using the goo.gl shortener, it automatically generates a corresponding QR code image for the URL.
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"There are legions of smartphone owners looking for something else — and there are hundreds of millions of consumers on dumbphones looking to make the next step. For those, Windows Phone will definitely be in the running."
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Last week Quentin Letts wrote an essay in the Mail asking why today's comedy had to be so obsessed with smut, sex and toilet humour. This week, the Mail is giving away free "Carry On..." DVDs
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"This is where the London IA Mentor Scheme comes into play to encourage senior, experienced members of the London and South East UX community to support and assist junior and/or inexperienced members of the community to get work and grow their experience and portfolios". @solle is working on a scheme to increase mentoring and support for young UX/IA professionals in London
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As the inquest has thrust the London suicide bombings back into the spotlight, here is a blog post from earlier in the year rounding up the things I wrote about being involved in the BBC web coverage at the time
Slightly better version of Asteroids, albeit with less easy to use url.
Copy paste the following bit of Javascript into your web browser address bar once any other webpage has loaded. Arrow keys to move and space to fire.
[Ian here inserts some Javascript that my comment system is going to totally remove, so basically...]
Go here and follow the instructions for fun in-browser Asteroids