Archive for April, 2009

I’ll be attending Internet World 2009 this year which starts next week – but better than that, I’ll be exhibiting! Feel free to come over for a chat, I’ll be around on the Tuesday & Wednesday (28th & 29th April). If you’ve got any spare time and an interest in anything website related I recommend [...]

Had to post this, just because of the annoyance of the BBC forcing me to download the bloatware that is Real Player to listen live.  You can bypass the entire need for it just by pasting this link into your preferred media player of choice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/wm_asx/aod/radio1.asx Much better! Not sure if this works in iTunes, [...]

I thought this was rather amusing – I’m listed as unsubscribed (and have been for some time) from Microsoft’s promotional information and surveys email list, so what did they do? They sent me an email to check whether I’m sure I still want to be unsubscribed! Maybe we should try this with our customers, once [...]

I’ve just recently read a well put together article by a chap called Scot Robinson, about how to reduce your Bounce Rates in 8 steps. These steps are: 1. Include Clear Call-to-Actions 2. Make Sure the Content of Your Articles and Posts Meet Visitor Expectations 3. Include Well Designed Navigation with Targeted Options 4. Less [...]

Production Quality

In: Music

19 Apr 2009

After listening to various genres of music today on the good ol‘ faithful last, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that musical production effort and complexity seems to be much simpler than first thought. So simple in fact, that I’m almost proposing myself to produce a track this year. Note the almost. Listening mainly [...]

Quite interesting to say it was a spur of the moment viewing. Lots of people talking about digital aspects that seemed alien to maybe half of them. Among the masses of coal though there were a few (a very few) diamonds to be had. Some valid points were made – I only caught the afternoon [...]


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  • Dan S: It would be great if ads could be better targeted. I guess google and facebook are trying very hard [...]
  • John Scott Cothill: blink-182 for example - 10 years ago they were singing about dog f***ing - now it's all about the 2 [...]
  • Adam T: Hmmm... I think there should be an element of targeting used most of the time. Dull? I would love t [...]
  • Swissss: Although, as aBay have found out, the higher the targeting, the less room for serendipity. eBay (al [...]
  • Joel: Well written. As generic ads become more intrusive, developers are making a fortune in blocking the [...]

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