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A Little Extra Insight with Tamboo
Every extra bit of web analytics insight helps support your visitors.
Libreture is open for business
My e-book storage startup is open for hardcore readers who like their books DRM-free.
DRM-free Find: Coeur d'Alene Waters
Historical events, a story inserted into the gaps, family, relationships, tragedy. A novel by Ned Hayes.
TRUST Your Content
A simple model to help you plan and create effective, targeted website content.
Moving from Own/NextCloud towards targeted apps
Switching my CalDav and CardDav environments to use smaller and more targeted software that do exactly what I want without the bloat.
Notes from an old Kindle
Quotes and notes from books I read on my Kindle before changing e-readers. Almost three years of reading and highlighting.
Google-free, Open Source and Indie Webbing it Since 2014
A catch-up after a few years of moving away from Google, proprietary software and embracing Open Source and the IndieWeb movement.
Bying DRM-free e-books is about more than backups
Tracking reading habits is one of the more sinister aspects of Digital Rights Management.
Privacy and Analytics
A brief article on privacy in response to Jeremy Keith's 'Analytical'.
A CMS Wot Kevin Wrote
or the trials of recording structured content in a home-made CMS.
Webmentions and the REAL Social Web
A kind of follow-up to articles I wrote a long time ago about Google Buzz.
Like it's Christmas 1984
My own, short, recollection of Thatcher's battle against a nation.
Digital tools that fulfil YOUR needs first
Look after your software and it will look after you - and your data.
When web apps go bye-bye
The retirement of one product could herald many more new ones.
Snapshot
Stretching my writing muscles, but pulling something awkward in the process.
Content and the Blog: Part 2
The trials of selecting a suitable blog platform have finally forced me to build my own.
Content and the Blog: Part 1
How awkward does it need to be to create standards-compliant HTML in some blog software?
Would Monkeys Use Qype?
Macaque monkeys may be worried about searching on Qype and other points about colour.
The Thin Red Line
When choosing colours for your website, make sure you understand the cultural and emotional relevance they may have to your users.
Revenge of the Cookie Monster
The Information Commissioners Office has demonstrated how we could implement the new Cookie Law on our websites...
Google's Internet-Wide Social Network Takes Shape
The scope of what Google are creating slowly dawns on me.
Have Google Just Demonstrated the World's Biggest Social Network?
...or am I just nuts?
How the whole User Interface thing started
1982 Byte Magazine article describes the design process behind one of the first computer user interfaces.
Who needs Government IT costing millions when you've got such talented 16 year-olds.
The future of IT talent.
AIDA - Not the Opera
AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) is a marketing tool to support a conversion, goal-based user journey, primarily on the web.
Human Rights and the Internet
Amnesty International calls for improved human rights on the internet
Make a difference
Carbon-offsetting is in the news again with the Government's attempt to be perceived as green while doing the complete opposite.
What's in store?
What will the future of the web and the internet at large hold for us?