Announcing NMK Forum 07

OK, I’ll try not to let this site become too much like a boring diary of what I do at work and get back to the normal web services and social media output.

But not yet.

Today, the website for NMK Forum 07 finally went live. It’s taken me a while, mainly because of my incom­pet­ence a few

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Craving Attention?

The like­li­hood is that — in this day and age — your atten­tion is stretched fairly thin. The law of inform­a­tion states that, “the rapid growth of inform­a­tion causes scarcity of atten­tion”. Few would deny that there’s been an explosive growth of inform­a­tion over the last few years. It’s estim­ated that the average consumer is

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Web Apps

FOWA day two, then. Lots of learning for me, as many of the present­a­tions had more of a developer angle. It’s stuff I’m inter­ested in, but tend not to under­stand a lot of the time thanks to an arty-​​​​farty back­ground. In general terms, I do not know my API from my elbow. I met and heard from a lot

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Two Tips

Subscribe to the Sense Worldwide news­letter for genu­inely inter­esting internet news that you haven’t already read a million times on blogs that think reading Techmeme is the same thing as finding inspir­a­tion. I used to think, in this age of RSS and at-​​​​your-​​​​convenience dis­tri­bu­tion, that the email news­letter was dead. It isn’t. There are a couple

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The Day Job

There’s a reas­on­ably good report (but watch out for the pop-​​​​ups) in the Christian Science Monitor about the micro-​​​​economy created by Google Ad-​​​​sense. For most people, as you’ll appre­ciate if you’ve ever used the platform, we’re talking very micro. The success stories cited in the report are making a cool $100 a month from their blogs. That’s

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Google Blog Search & Former Audiences

Results 1–10 of about 8,678 for ‘sorry-​​​​for-​​​​not-​​​​posting’ (0.06 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 223,303 for ‘I-​​​​am-​​​​sorry’ (0.10 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 2,477 for ‘very-​​​​busy-​​​​with-​​​​work’ (0.07 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 2,592 for ‘I-​​​​will-​​​​try-​​​​harder’ (0.08 seconds)

We had a cool event yes­terday at work on the subject ‘Do Agencies Innovate?’, so that knocked out last night (far-​​​​too-​​​​long and elab­orate write-​​​​up

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