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Meet the TYPE-IN™ – and want to kill it

Posted in internet, marketing, technology on Sep 30th, 2011

Advertisers want to know if you’re human or machine, while turning you into the latter

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Hit and hope

Posted in digression, marketing on Sep 15th, 2008

Just saw this on Facebook. It reminded me of the way I play pool when I can’t work out how to get a ball in a pocket.

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Inline hates

Posted in online journalism, writing on Dec 17th, 2007

[NB - I broke the images in this post. Sorry.] I’ve been banging on about hyperlinks a bit lately, but they’re a pretty important part of writing online. Done well, embedding links within your copy can provide context, give a route to further reading, or even act as punctuation or emphasis. Taken together, the benefits [...]

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It’s the cavalry!

Posted in writing on Aug 23rd, 2007

Right blogging powerhouse I’m turning out to be. What’s this, five posts in a month? Anyway, I’ve opened this up to my colleague Charlie, aka the Bird Man of Firle. I hope he’ll offer something more insightful than my usual carping about BBC News. I’d invite other journalists I’ve worked with, but they all work [...]

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