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2015

Friday Reading S02E02original ↗
12 Jun 2015
“People are on social media, so do it on social media” – Buzzfeed’s Tom Phillips on #GE2015 at News Impact Summit Londonoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2015
“We saw growth with Facebook video” – ITV’s Jason Mills talks #GE2015 at News Impact Summit Londonoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
“We put a lot of effort into designing #GE2015 for mobile” – the BBC’s Steve Herrmann at News Impact Summitoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
“We were all chasing this phantom story” – Miranda Green on #GE2015 at the News Impact Summitoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
Friday Reading S02E01original ↗
5 Jun 2015
“The VPN effect and the web’s missing billion” – Jason Mander at #qznextbillionoriginal ↗
22 May 2015
“Your next ride – Uber in emerging markets” – Jambu Palaniappan at #qznextbillionoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
“Inspiring computer hardware for young people in the developing world” – Yonatan Raz-Fridman at #qznextbillionoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
“Providing free ad-supported mobile internet access for the next billion” – Nathan Eagle at #qznextbillionoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
“What makes video go viral in emerging markets?” – Cat Jones at #qznextbillionoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
I wrote a thing about some things what I had madeoriginal ↗
14 May 2015
All change again for the BBC News websiteoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2015
Exclusive bropinion: A man has thinksoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2015
Terry Pratchett died and we had no wordsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2015
5 reasons I can’t get myself worked up about that Gawker MailOnline pieceoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2015
The BBC announces myBBC – for the third time in 15 yearsoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
Wittgenstein is the sincerest form of flatteryoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
A grumpy old man’s tuppence on why you shouldn’t ruin Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2015
Typography claims hoist by own petardoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2015
We did this, they did that #4original ↗
20 Feb 2015
We did this, they did that #3original ↗
13 Feb 2015
Using wearable tech to film YouTube is going to be the new “taping songs off the chart show”original ↗
9 Feb 2015
Is @savedyouaclick snobbish about media? Yesoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2015
We did this, they did that #2original ↗
6 Feb 2015
Why I’ve found that online communities on media sites always seem doomed to failoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2015
Remembering how search engines reacted to the Columbia Shuttle disasteroriginal ↗
2 Feb 2015
We did this, they did that #1original ↗
30 Jan 2015

2014

13 tips on applying for journalism jobs from a fortysomething misanthropeoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2014
The tl;dr version of critiquing articles about #GamerGateoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2014
When the words on a chart about rape become more important than rapeoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2014
The Press Complaints Commission is dead! Long live the 404 page. Er wut?original ↗
14 Oct 2014
2 reasons journalism continues to have a dysfunctional relationship with Facebookoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2014
Oh my word the Telegraph has given up on reporting the news!original ↗
7 Oct 2014
Well, I’ve had better reviews to be honest…original ↗
4 Oct 2014
#GamerGate poll: Clarifying the change from “Uncovering corruption” to “Fighting corruption”original ↗
3 Oct 2014
Was Jack Of Kent right to break an embargo on Conservative Party plans for human rights legislation?original ↗
2 Oct 2014
9 things news organisations could learn about social media from “Martin Belam’s joke” on Twitteroriginal ↗
1 Oct 2014
Kate Bush live was a little like watching the movie of a dearly loved noveloriginal ↗
25 Sept 2014
Am I being deleted by Google against my will?original ↗
23 Sept 2014
Shat on the Telegraphoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
The growing disconnect between social media use and broadcast media convention on election daysoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2014
Ampp3d under “friendly fire” from the National Secular Societyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2014
Tom Bradby isn’t enjoying covering the #IndyRef. This may be the new normaloriginal ↗
16 Sept 2014
An open letter to the Independent about reporting the royal baby newsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2014
Why look – it’s another unnecessary opinion piece about the Scottish #Indyref by an Englishmanoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2014
The Scotsman really has banned mention of Wings Over Scotland in their commentsoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2014
Why don’t I care about Twitter shoving “favourites” into my timeline?original ↗
20 Aug 2014
Construction sites and catcalling at women – the metadata never liesoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2014
The newspaper columnists tone-policing your grief on social mediaoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2014
SEOing the death of Robin Williams isn’t evil. It’s the equivalent of shouting “READ ALL ABAHT IT”original ↗
13 Aug 2014
If you only read one article about how the media have reported Robin Williams apparent suicide…original ↗
13 Aug 2014
Maybe the Daily Star should have checked their own website before complaining about the BBC’s Savile article?original ↗
13 Aug 2014
Why URL structure has to be part of your content strategy in one screenshotoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2014
Frank Maloney & Kellie Maloney: Watching the media cover a Trans* story with improved empathyoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2014
Two posts well worth reading about the Facebook news feed algorithmoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2014
50 million reasons the media needs to stop thinking Buzzfeed is only listsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2014
Not all men. Not all industries. But nearly always men in my industryoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2014
If I lived in Scotland this one design decision would make me vote “Yes”original ↗
7 Aug 2014
Current status: Winning at the internet with Trinity Mirrororiginal ↗
5 Aug 2014
Did the Times of Israel say genocide was permissible? Spoiler: NOoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2014
How much of Wolfgang Blau’s “office desktop” traffic will survive for brands like the Mirror?original ↗
1 Aug 2014
Come and work with me making brilliant stuff for the weboriginal ↗
31 Jul 2014
12 things I learnt from our developer’s blog about building Ampp3doriginal ↗
30 Jul 2014
Hello, world (Slight return)original ↗
30 Jun 2014
The death of the homepage in one simple graphoriginal ↗
17 May 2014
Why everybody in the newsroom should do all their work on their phonesoriginal ↗
16 May 2014
Some thoughts on straight lines across UK mapsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2014
Complaining you get less organic Facebook reach is looking down the wrong end of the telescopeoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2014
How we built Ampp3d in eight weeksoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2014
Does Ampp3d have a problem with bias?original ↗
22 Feb 2014
“The Ampp3d-ification of news”original ↗
19 Feb 2014
Guardian shows why mobile design has to work for commercial content as well as editorial contentoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2014

2013

“Anyone referring to journalism as ‘a product’ should be shot” – Quartz’s Leo Mirani & Jason Karaian at #HHLdnoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2013
“Do Assad’s men wear trainers?” – the BBC’s Trushar Barot on social media verificationoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2013
“Journalists want convenience, not security” – Daniel Cuthbert at Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2013
“Making news stand-out in a social media world” – Quartz’s Kevin Delaney at #SmartDENoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2013
The real problem with the “Should journalists learn to code” questionoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2013
@BBCExtraGhost, #Vennfest, @UKGoHomeOffice and beyond – doing political satire for the weboriginal ↗
24 Oct 2013
A couple of weeks in the UsVsTh3m hot seatoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2013
“The digital place you love is gone” – Joe Sokohl at EuroIAoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2013
“From Search to Social” – BuzzFeed, Facebook, Metro & UsVsTh3m at #SMWLDNoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2013
9 pet peeves from running the UsVsTh3m social media brand accountsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2013
“Every story starts with an audience of zero” – Jay Lauf of Quartz at news:rewiredoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2013
Life’s not just about monarchs and men: Why I want women on our banknotes.original ↗
7 Jul 2013
How my spoof BBC Question Time Twitter account showed me the level of abuse political women face on social mediaoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2013
“Telling the story of Firestorm” – Jon Henley & Robin Beitra at Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2013
“The who, what and why of UsVsTh3m” – Martin Belam at Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2013
Closing Mustardland – the end of the Archers messageboardoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2013
“We aren’t here to steal anyone’s lunch” – Buzzfeed’s Luke Lewis at Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
21 May 2013
“How to make journalism work on tablet computers” at News On The Move IIoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2013
16 tapirs who think your attitude to “sponsored content” sucksoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2013
“The Editor Behind the Curtain” – Erin Kissane at Confaboriginal ↗
27 Mar 2013
“The future for investigative journalism funding” – David Leigh at Hacks/Hackers Londonoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2013
On the demise of Google Readeroriginal ↗
14 Mar 2013
BBC Archers message board closure features on Radio 4’s Feedbackoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2013
The long slow death of the BBC’s Message boardsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2013
Working towards never writing this blog post about “women at tech conferences” againoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2013
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