Proper Entertainment

Amazing shadow puppetry video.

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Found on Ursi’s blog — who is doing a fine job of gath­ering cool bits and pieces from all over the place.

RSS Tip

Full text RSS feeds auto­ma­gic­ally created from partial ones, courtesy of EchoDitto labs.

Had a quick try — it worked for the BBC’s and e-​​​​consultancy’s partial feeds. Slightly erratic results some­times, though, such as with the Guardian’s feeds.

That Didn’t Take Long

You’re probably already very familiar with the Ad-​​​​Block exten­sion for Firefox.

Now there’s a new kid on the block, Tubestop. Tubestop prevents YouTube’s brand new overlay ads from spoiling your videos. It works by sub­sti­tuting the player on Youtube’s pages (which inserts ads) with the one that appears embedded in web pages (which

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Ian Delaney, Brand Ambassador

I men­tioned it earlier today in a comment else­where and it reminded me to give this stuff due praise:

Andrews Liver Salts is the cure for all known ills. Without any doubt, this product has rescued more days for me that any com­bin­a­tion of paink­illers, anti­bi­otics, stomach settlers or hairs-​​​​of-​​​​the-​​​​dog. If, some day, I am

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The SEO Backlash?

Pure coin­cid­ence, perhaps, but there were two articles in my feed reader today arguing that there’s a need to avoid too much Search Engine Optimisation.

From Dharmesh Shah:

The Perils of Pandering to Google.

And from Ken Yarmosh:

Search Engine Deoptimisation

The trouble with ranking highly on Google is that any old riff-​​​​raff might

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Principles for Online Communities

Joshua Porter has pub­lished slides from a present­a­tion reminding us that there is over a hundred years of research into beha­vi­oural psy­cho­logy waiting to inform the way in which social web applic­a­tions are designed. Through the links, I found Peter Kollock’s 1996 essay, Design Principles for Online Communities, which collects together some key points from work done

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