Paul Mackenzie Ross
The Best Camera
Before I got my iPhone I had a Nokia N95 – It had a 5 megapixel camera, lense cover, flash and zoom. As a camera on a smartphone it spoiled me and the lack of camera features & functions was one of my main criticisms of the iPhone with its 2 megapixel no flash/no zoom … Read more
Power to the People
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
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 … Read more
Jan Moir, Nick Griffin, Twitter and the Mob
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
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 … Read more
I don’t know why I watch The Apprentice…
…within 60 seconds of the start of the first episode of the fifth series on BBC One my humble sensibilities were assaulted by the sheer brutality of these people’s egos. For me, making money is better than sex. Oh dear. What a sad and lonely man. If civilisation collapsed or if we ever achieved utopia, … Read more
Joomla Day UK 2009
I don’t normally do conferences. That’s not for lack of trying, mind you; there have been a number of events this year, particularly in marketing, where I’ve been keen to attend to get a feel for the direction of the technology in the sector and catch up with some PR & SEO friends. But work … Read more
SEO Snake Oil
On Twitter this morning Matt Cutts highlighted an interesting article by John C. Dvorak from PC Mag. Dvorak writes about SEO: I really don’t know where to start. Dvorak’s piece entitled SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble with Search Engine Optimization seems like an all-out attack on SEO and coming from such a decorated columnist in a … Read more
No More Heroes
Nostalgia is an incredible thing. For one, life was definitely less complicated “back then” and the lack of complication allowed times of sheer unadulterated joy. Boards of Canada, although a modern sound, take me back to the ’70s but in the last few weeks I’ve been to see true legends from that decade; Motörhead, Saxon … Read more