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  My Digital Web Magazine article

  My article for Digital Web Magazine, The Evolution of Corporate Websites, has now been published. It's a high-level look at web design trends over the past 10 years. Here's the...

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  Combined project for topic mapping in blogging?

  I mentioned in my last post that one of my ongoing interests is topic mapping in weblogs. Topic Exchange and K-Collector are two initiatives that I've hyped a lot over...

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  One Year On: Part 2

  In my previous post, I wrote about my early blogging efforts in March 2002 and the birth of Read/Write Web just over 1 year ago. In this post I review the...

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  One Year On: Part 1

  Here goes another self-referencing post about blogging. A couple of days ago I clocked up 1 year on this weblog, having started Read/Write Web on 20 April 2003, with an...

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  I guess this makes me a journalist

  Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition - right over the page from...

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  Media Literacy and How Blogs Should Evolve

  I'm currently reading Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available as a free download under a Creative Commons license. I'm only up to pg 64, but already I've...

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  Napoleon’s Glance – the Art of Web Strategy

  In my day job I'm currently working on a Web Strategy for my company. I've created web strategies in the past and I enjoy doing them. At the previous company...

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  Dirtside to Spaceside in 100 words

  Jason Kottke has summarised Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, in 100 words using Microsoft Word's AutoSummarize feature. Jason's reasoning was that "no one has the time to read books anymore". Sounds about...

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  Kill Blog

  Hands up who wants to get rid of the word "blog"? I'm beginning to wonder whether the word "weblog" has outlived its purpose. But before you call the white coats, let me...

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  Doin’ it for the People

  My first reaction when I looked at my referer logs and saw I'd been slashdotted was: Holy Shit! Actually it was Marc Canter'sPeopleAggregator that was the main link in the...

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  Interview with Marc Canter

  Read/Write Web is pleased to bring you this special feature, an interview with software pioneer Marc Canter. Marc is one of the founding fathers of multimedia, having created tools and...

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  Must. Blog. Something.

  Oh man, has it been a whole week since I lasted posted something on my weblog? I've actually been busy working on an upcoming special feature for Read/Write Web. Top...

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  CSS Libraries – Making CSS Layouts Easier for Web Designers

  Interesting comment from Lucas Gonze in the comments to my post regarding Lockergnome's CSS-to-Tables re-design. Incidentally, Lockergnome is in the process of moving back to CSS - good on ya! But here's...

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  Update on my Weblog Goals for 2004

  I've been relatively quiet on the blogging front lately, for two reasons. Firstly I've been busily reading as much of Heath Row's SXSW transcriptions as possible (thanks Heath!) - so...

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  CSS layouts vs Tables: What’s the Pragmatic Choice?

  There's a debate going on in the Web world about Lockergnome's backwards conversion from a modern CSS design to a 1997-era HTML tables design. The web design community is outraged...

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  Permutation City

  I've just finished reading a fantastic science-fiction book: Permutation City, by Greg Egan. It covers a lot of the themes that interest me - computer technology, virtual reality, avatars, evolution,...

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  There is no End User

  That is the revelation that hit me a couple of days ago. There is no End User in Information Flow (which is a term I am using a lot these...

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  Peter Jackson and the American Dream for kiwis

  Congratulations to Peter Jackson and his team for the 11-oscar sweep! New Zealanders (all 30 of us) are currently basking in the reflected glory of Jackson's achievement, like an escaped otter...

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  Remix Culture

  I might Go Quiet for a week or two following this post. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by blog reading and writing and maintenance. Time to set my focus back...

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  Moving your Radio Userland comments system to PyCS

  I've now swapped my comments system from Radio Userland's comments server to the Python Community Server, developed and hosted by Phil Pearson. The reason I did this was because I've...