November 2008
well, we lost. but ronaldo got sent off which pretty much made up for it ;)
on our way to the City of Manchester Stadium :)
excited about the Manchester City vs Manchester United derby game (soccer) this afternoon - come on City! Robinho FTW
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Food blog post! Green & Blacks Maya Gold Chocolate Orange Mousse: http://bit.ly/mayamousse
Just cooked a chinese banquet for my parents with @sarahconnolly. Finished with an awesome Green & Blacks Maya Gold chocolate mousse. yum!
Why did I just get 10 people’s ‘now following you’ emails from twitter at exactly the same time. Backlog? Or did I make a top 10 list again?
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An amazing camera and stunning results.
ntrigued by how the Brunel photograph was created, photojournalist David White set out - using non toxic methods - to recreate some of…
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still fuming about losing my black&red notepad… two months of work, gone! that’ll teach me to use paper and ink…
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Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user centered design techniques to…
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Dan had a play with the Eee Top, which is receiving mixed reviews across the internet. Personally, having looked over his shoulder for at least 40 seconds, I can confirm that’s it’s brill. For a more…
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The BBC Trust’s rejection of the BBC’s local video strategy last week has led to the plans being misinterpreted, according to Pete Clifton, head of editorial development and multimedia journalism at…
News | Yell.com adds more local content while BBC... →
The classified listings specialist is hiring journalists to create content, including advice on things to think about when hiring a serviceperson as well as quick facts about towns across the UK.
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Giles appointed publisher of Wallpaper.com - Brand... →
IPC’s design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper has appointed Ben Giles to the new role of publisher of Wallpaper.com, with immediate effect.
Regionals fear £15m planning application ad... →
The Newspaper Society is seeking an urgent meeting with the Government, arguing that new plans on planning applications could result in newspapers losing £15m a year in ad revenue.
just realised I’ve left my note book on the train last night… all my plans, gone!
Damn, power socket on train is not outputting any current. Have document to write, battery fading fast. FAIL.
Portsmouth vs Milan finishes 2-2 after Pompey were 2-0 up. Injury time goal from Milan. How gutted must the Portsmouth fans be! So close.
How to Grow Your Follower Numbers to Over 10,000... →
It’s never too late to build a large, loyal Twitter following—if you think outside the box. In this guest post, Matthew Magain from SitePoint shares some tips on how you can grow your Twitter…
Google Laughs at Yahoo! and Microsoft →
The monthly domestic search-engine rankings from Nielsen Online are out, and they’re as predictable as ever. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) keeps getting stronger, and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and …
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If you’re a web designer working alongside print designers with little to no web design/dev knowledge, how is your experience?
Teeth-grindingly annoying.
had to skip thanksgiving turkey at Google London HQ as i’d already eaten at a lunch meeting… shame, it looked nice!
News | MEN Media appoints Revenue Science - NMA →
MEN Media, part of the Guardian Media Group, has appointed behavioural targeting specialist Revenue Science to provide targeting opportunities across its sites.
Our Message for Obama book is now on sale →
On November 5 we started a photographic project, with users of guardian.co.uk and of Flickr, entitled A Message for Obama. The essence of the idea was to see if we could capture reaction to…
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: H is for... →
Today H, for home page… which was launched in May 2007 and incorporated a huge amount of flexibility to tell the day’s news in different ways.
There are two major aspects to the home page’s…
Planning ad changes could hit newspaper revenues →
Newspapers could lose millions of pounds a year in advertising revenue under new proposals on planning application notices presented to the Government, the Newspaper Society has warned.
Channel M the future of regional news →
In the latest of a series of debates looking at the future of Public Service Broadcasting, a senior member of Ofcom suggested that the Channel M (http://www.channelm.co.uk/) model could be the future…
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The Bible, but not as you... →
as a densely printed book with no pictures, but a version of the scripture that resembles a glossy coffee table magazine aims to change that. It’s part of a wave of radical presentations of the…
Newsquest axes editors and publishers at northern... →
Newsquest has parted company with the editors, publishers and managing directors of several newspapers in the north of England as part of a management restructure.
50 jobs to go at Telegraph Media Group | Media |... →
Fifty editorial staff are to lose their jobs at Telegraph Media Group, management told staff today.
It is understood the cuts represent a 13-14% saving to the editorial budget and will be brought…
Train choices. Go back tonight, get in at midnight. Go back tomorrow but get up at 5am and pay an extra £45…
LBi, UK’s largest digital agency lays off 17 design & build staff - 5% of workforce (via http://bit.ly/RBj4)
News | FHM.com prepares for site relaunch - NMA →
FHM.com has appointed digital agency Ralph to drive awareness of its relaunch next month.
The Bauer Media brand is to go live with a more interactive-focused site, aiming to offer users better…
News | LBi confirms redundancies in design and... →
LBi CEO Ewen Sturgeon confirmed 17 mid-weight staff from the design and build departments of the agency had been made redundant.
News | Bebo's Kate Burns labels Google 'a... →
Kate Burns, Bebo VP & MD for Europe, has labelled her former employer Google, a ‘nightmare to deal with’.
Burns, Google’s first employee in the UK, made the comments at The Media Festival in…
yay, my last project at Pod1, Jigsaw clothing has just gone live! Not too many deviations from my wireframes… http://www.jigsaw-online.com
glad i took @stephenfry ‘s advice on not getting a Blackberry Storm. Also gets shite review by NY Times (http://tinyurl.com/555fch)
thinking about abandoning www.ma.gnolia.com for www.delicious.com…
just had a few beers with the MD of Timeout UK and their sales team - a good bunch! off home now as sarah’s doing dinner, yum.
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: F is for... →
Today F, for flexible advertising… which was one of the key goals of the project. This exposes one of the significant aspects of R2: it was neither editorially driven, nor technically…
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: G is for... →
Today G, for Guardian America… which was not part of the project scope when we started R2. It’s fair to say that when we began implementing in February 2006, the idea of a Guardian America…
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I hope nobody I know is affected by Google cutting down on contractors… (http://bit.ly/sbHF)
no hot water/tea on london train. i’m not fussed but others grumpy. @natbentley would be trying to boil water using the handdryer by now ;)
News | Google to cut number of contract workers -... →
Google is to reduce the number of contract workers it uses as part of further cost-cutting measures, according to reports.
The search giant, which employs approximately 10,000 contractors, revealed…
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