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The Republican Dickwad Search
Facebook Lexicon is a tool to let you see trends of how many people are discussing different terms.
Like most people, I was instantly interested to find how many Facebook users had been using the phrase "republican dickwad".
Continue reading Comments () 28.10.2008. 23:14
Linkscape - a new tool from SEOMoz
SEOMoz announced a new flagship tool today: LinkscapeTM.
Continue reading Comments () 06.10.2008. 08:24
Four Sad Faces - New BBC 7 Radio Show
I spent this evening with Tom Critchlow, watching the recording of the new radio show on BBC7 - 4 Sad Faces.
Continue reading Comments () 09.09.2008. 22:35
Something Is Wrong with the Internet
Introduction: This article is somewhat UK-centric. I make no apology for this, it's simply that it's where most of my experience lies. In addition, I'm not going to 'name-and-shame' any sites that I don't think are up to scratch. Not right now, anyhow. However, that doesn't mean that I think the sites I do mention are 'Best in Class' examples by any rate, but they all do at least something right. OK, with all that said...
I realized recently, that something was wrong with the internet.
Specifically, that there's a certain number of sites that leave the visitor feeling slightly confused; it's often just a subliminal, unvoiced feeling of discontent with a site, but enough to prevent them from returning. Before I begin, I'm going to make a grand, sweeping statement which you may well disagree with, but that I'll hopefully provide evidence to support.
There are only three types of website, and good sites fall into one, or possibly two, of these categories. Sites that try and sit in all three, or sit in one category but think they sit elsewhere, will rarely achieve success.
Continue reading Comments () 23.04.2008. 18:02
New Urban Theme - Init?
Continuing to experiment with the sNews CMS, I created a new theme for the system. The theme has an urban feel, using paste-up images and a graffiti style logo.
You can now visit urban.ousbey.com to see the theme in action. The site connects to the same database at the main site, so that all the articles and other written content, as well as image and linked audio files do not need to be duplicated.
Audio in sNews 1.6
This is the method I have used to add an audio player to sNews powered sites. It uses the 1pixelout.net MP3 player.Update: Since writing this article, I have migrated my homepage to the sNews CMS, and you can see the modification working on pages such as Latitude Festival 2007.