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Power to the People

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:26:44 +0000

I hadn’t touched Wordle for about a year. Today I stumbled across Wordle again and decided to paste in the text from this home page in, and what did we get?

foursquare

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:46:12 +0000

As with so many things in this accelerated world, getting into foursquare was one of those moments that I don’t recall exactly where/when/how/why I got into it. It was probably the twitter updates from a friend along the lines of “Joe D. has just become the Mayor of Bur Gerking (Maida Vale)” which piqued my curiosity. I [...]

Jan Moir, Nick Griffin, Twitter and the Mob

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:41:48 +0000

Ever since Jan Moir wrote her piece in last week's Daily Mail column questioning and commenting on everything surrounding Steven Gately's untimely death her name has seemed to be a permanent fixture in the trending topics on twitter.

Sure, it was a pretty rude article, but it was in the Daily Mail so what do you expect?

Accelerando

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:51:17 +0000

28th day of August, 2009: For more than a year I’d been involved in a hefty Joomla! project, migrating a large 1.0.x website to the 1.5 version of the CMS. Having been far more involved in the SEO and editorial arts of the web in recent years, I’d lost touch with my artistic side, the [...]

Healthcare in America

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:30:09 +0000

I have to say that I am quite appalled at the amount of venom that’s been pouring out of the United States recently over the proposals of Barack Obama to reform the healthcare system. There are a number of points that I find pretty unsavoury: That there is any objection to improving America’s healthcare system is [...]