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Semantic web for ecampaigners

Semantic web for ecampaigners

Jun 5, 2010 | Geekery | 0 comments

What is the Semantic Web?

The Semantic Web, also known as Web 3.0, comes from Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision for the Web as a platform to facilitate simple exchange of data. A simple way to understand what it is and what it might mean for us as e-campaigners is to compare it to the W3C standards for XHTML and CSS.

I Can Has Tipz 2 Create Succesful Meme?

I Can Has Tipz 2 Create Succesful Meme?

May 12, 2010 | Geekery | 0 comments

Sorry, just can’t keep up the lolcat speak, but there are definitely some lessons to be learned from Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh: And now you could read... Proust and the Squid The Human Factor What Is The What? How to use the new Twitter Auto Da Fé “Why Do I...
Lego Sabotage

Lego Sabotage

Apr 17, 2010 | Geekery, Img, Sound & Vision | 0 comments

I’m guesing most people have seen the lego classic photo series, like Balakov’s on Flickr: Well inevitably, it gets better… This version of The Beastie Boys’ Sabotage is almost impossible to tell from the original (with the possible exception...
Idiot’s guide to Twitter

Idiot’s guide to Twitter

Apr 15, 2010 | Geekery | 2 comments

I couldn’t find an idiot’s guide to Twitter anywhere, so I wrote this bare bones introduction. If I get a chance I’ll come back and embellish this a little with some specific tips and tools for usage (eg. using Tweetdeck and Cotweet rather than the...
Adding Youtube or Vimeo video to WordPress MU

Adding Youtube or Vimeo video to WordPress MU

Apr 6, 2010 | Geekery | 0 comments

Seems there was a bit of a bug with the last WordPress MU (WPMU) upgrade which means if you want to be able to embed Youtube or Vimeo video in a post, you’ll need to update your kses.php file. It was causing real problems not being able to display videos on...
Smithson v Oeffinger Layer Tennis

Smithson v Oeffinger Layer Tennis

Apr 6, 2010 | Geekery, Img | 0 comments

For quite some time now, I’ve been a devotee of Layer Tennis, a game almost as brilliant as Dandy Racquetball… I think the stakes have been raised with this bout between Matt Smithson & Daniel Oeffinger. And now you could read... Cry, The Beloved...