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My new blog: Digital Disruption

Simon @ August 14, 2008 # 2 Comments

I’ve started a new blog - Digital Disruption which is where I’m planning to put the bulk of my ’serious blogging’ effort in from now on - allowing this place to be turned over to occasional indulgent whimsies about gadgets and music and the like.
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Style over substance

Simon @ April 8, 2008 # 3 Comments

Any of you who actually visit this blog rather than take a look at it in a news reader will notice that things have changed around here in terms of design. I’m a bit annoyed with myself because when I started blogging again, I promissed I would spend hours messing about with WP templates..but when [...]

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Trying out Zemanta

Simon @ March 26, 2008 # 8 Comments

Back at Seedcamp in the Summer, I met the guys behind what was then a very wizzy little app called Zemanta. They went on to win it, which was great, even though I felt is was a solution looking for a problem. But then, hey - what do I know?
It effectively scanned a piece of [...]

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No tweets - I don’t have time for a short note

Simon @ February 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I don’t do Twitter. I have tried. I have signed up, and followed a few people. I really, really want to like it, but frankly it just falls off the list of things I can focus on in a given day. It’s just one stream of information too many.
Every now and again, I get an [...]

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