hackbash

Unless you’ve been beyond the event horizon of late, you’ll know that on Wednesday this week the Swiss will be flicking the on switch on the Large Hadron Collider, with a small chance that they’ll precipitate the formation of a black hole that will snuff us all out of existence.
I’m optimistic. I read a short [...]

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Brilliant. I’m incredibly rich and you’re all losers. I’ve just realised that there are so many fucking insurance comparison websites that I’ve started an insurance comparison website comparison website.
Too late, I thought of it first. I don’t care how aggregating it is.

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I’m hereby submitting a new support incident to every single helpdesk in the UK, asking that you each please make your monkeys set up computers for the correct country.

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An interesting post on Antony’s blog has drawn me into a thread about the commercials behind journalism. In essence, Roy Greenslade has challenged Philip M Stone’s “heretical thought” that papers return to print-first publishing, but he doesn’t suggest an alternative revenue model. Antony notes iCrossing’s experiments with new models of journalism. Meanwhile, Paul Bradshaw (in [...]

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Happy one indeed, and big thanks to Handolio for doing all the hard work. He’s the Hackbash behemoth. I’m just the, um, moth.
Personally I think we’ve done a good job of focussing on the original topic; working through the possibilities for real online journalism in a marketing environment.
Now here’s a video of two dogs [...]

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