Here is a list of all blog posts I have made since I began blogging on this domain in 2004.
Having archives that date back to when I was 23 is a both a blessing and a curse… it is great to be able to highlight my best work, but in there are also the posts which I probably wouldn’t write now.
It’s also worth pointing out that before 2007 this blog was an outlet for both personal and professional interests.
June 2020
October 2017
September 2014
February 2012
- 10: PaperKarma, Craigslist and unintentional disruption (3)
- 06: From the notebook: musings about so-called ‘acqhire’ talent acquisitions (3)
- 03: What visa type do you need, exactly, to legally participate in Y Combinator? (3)
August 2011
May 2011
April 2011
- 26: Thoughts on a “risk averse BBC”, as covered in the Guardian today (1)
- 11: 23 and John Doe: thoughts on today’s genetic testing sale at 23andMe (2)
- 04: Amazon’s incorrect priorities when it comes to copyright enforcement on the Kindle (1)
March 2011
- 30: On iPads, tablets and Microsoft’s vacant bet in the non-post-PC world (2)
- 08: What ‘price’ for your Facebook account details? (1)
January 2011
- 17: Poisoned RSS: An approach to dealing with aggressive feed thieves (4)
- 05: ‘Hacking the BBC’, a BBC Backstage Retrospective (4)
December 2010
November 2010
- 28: Thoughts on WikiLeaks’ delayed release of the ‘CableGate’ files (3)
- 15: Some thoughts on Path – the most visible MVP test to date (2)
October 2010
- 20: Today Apple announced the end of the optical drive from *all* its laptops (3)
- 19: vb.ly is dead, long live vbly.us (6)
- 08: Our response to NIC.ly’s statement on the vb.ly domain deletion (10)
- 06: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe (213)
September 2010
- 16: Any strategy to Twitter’s rollout of #NewTwitter? (2)
- 14: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” (15)
- 09: Keep Making Social Networks, Facebook Hasn’t Won (2)
- 04: Glad to see price increases for SxSW Interactive 2011 (3)
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
- 07: Maybe Zappos wasn’t the amazing shiny business bundle of joy it was made out to be? (37)
- 04: The real reason Bing Cashback is ending: we all scammed the f**k out of it. (6)
May 2010
- 27: Open Standards: Losing our independents (11)
- 24: First exit on the right: NutShell Mail gets acquired! (3)
- 23: Geeks On A Plane Behind A Firewall (5)
- 18: Thoughts on BankSimple (3)
April 2010
- 09: Twitter continues on the offensive: now iPhone (3)
- 09: Twitter and the need for a developer exit strategy (6)
- 03: A passing thought on a more open iPad… (4)
- 01: The iPad: it will be as successful as the Netbook… (3)
March 2010
January 2010
- 26: WordPress to be (currently) considered unsafe? (12)
- 24: Something fishy going on with Kindle free bestseller ebooks? (32)
- 11: A cautionary tale on Yahoo!’s potential API legacies (3)
November 2009
October 2009
- 21: Yahoo! Taiwan 2009 Hack Day Stripper-gate: an addendum (9)
- 19: User aqusition: easy-come should be easy-go (1)
- 07: My GMail password scares me with its power! (25)
- 02: WOW it’s expensive to use Freshbooks and Harvest at scale (14)
June 2009
May 2009
March 2009
- 14: Seesmic for Facebook desktop client (3)
- 06: “hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy” attack on Twitter (6)
- 05: Why you want to have crackers in your security team (2)
- 04: Facebook’s ‘open’ move into the data mining space
February 2009
- 16: Follow the Pirate Bay Trial with commentry from @Sofia (1)
- 09: Twhirl 0.9 available for download (1)
- 07: $280 Dell Mini 9 running OSX is blueprint for the future (16)
January 2009
- 27: More analysis, like the piece on the Bebo sale, please TechCrunch! (2)
- 24: Join ‘Team Seesmic-Twhirl’ beta tester group and get exclusive preview access (3)
- 21: Flickr/Getty stock deal breaks Creative Commons licenses (10)
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- 13: Apps are live on MySpace! (1)
- 11: LearnHub.com – a social network for learning (1)
- 11: ClickPass launches, brings OpenID to everyday people (1)
- 09: Some thoughts on Lawrence Lessig and a possible Pirate Party USA
February 2008
January 2008
- 29: MySpace Developer Platform opening on Tuesday, sign up now! (18)
- 27: Back from perhaps one of the worst weeks of my life (14)
- 08: Google, Facebook and Plaxo join DataPortability.org (18)
December 2007
- 30: The ridiculousness of airport security (7)
- 19: Helping UK startups get ahead in San Francisco and Silicon Valley (11)
- 09: Marc Orchant: very sad news (3)
- 07: Seesmic (3)
- 06: Channel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition (2)
- 03: Marc Orchant critically ill
November 2007
- 22: Like Beacon, Facebook’s ‘News Feed’ feature was also hated to begin with too (3)
- 13: Advising MySpace on their Platform… (15)
October 2007
- 24: Facebook’s crafty theatre over that $15bn valuation (2)
- 15: FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGator to support APML! (3)
- 14: On LobbyConning (3)
- 10: Firefox for mobile: being built to to provide a browser for the GPhone? (19)
- 09: Did Jaiku just become a sacrifical lamb for the GPhone? (11)
- 09: Would you pay a voluntary contribution for your BitTorrent usage? (7)
- 08: An introduction to APML
- 08: Don’t bother trying to flag quetionable content on Yahoo!’s JumpCut (2)
- 08: My first take on Seesmic (5)
- 01: TechMeme Top 100 is ‘Top 100’ of what, exactly? (11)
- 01: Thoughts on Tom Morris on APML (2)
September 2007
- 25: Orange France customers now have OpenID (5)
- 20: Free Exhibit Hall Passes for MacWorld Conference (1)
- 13: Apple iPod Touch: The Unboxing (3)
- 10: Looks like TechCrunchUK is back… TechCrunchUK2.0? (3)
- 07: Apple jumps the exclusivity shark (2)
- 06: Now, Steve, how do I get Peets on the iPhone? (4)
- 03: My take on Seedcamp entries (6)
- 03: Seth Godin on ‘hard work’, this Labor Day (1)
August 2007
- 27: Fund setup for Open Source’s Greg Stein, who was attacked last Friday (2)
- 23: Deflating a little of the Jon Schwartz’s Java puff…
- 21: Speaking at the Office 2.0 conference
- 21: Skype Outage: Too many holes in the official explanation for my liking (4)
July 2007
- 31: Some thoughts on good conferences to attend (3)
- 31: Stowe Boyd’s Brannan Street Irregulars – and the need for a corporate façade
- 31: Engineering ‘talkability’ into real-world products (1)
June 2007
- 29: Unifying the mobile platform: why the iPhone is really important (5)
- 21: Bret Taylor leaves Google Code to start Benchmark-backed startup
- 18: Back to their roots: Yahoo! appoints Jerry Yang as CEO
- 15: Big Corp Thinking: #01 in an occasional series… (3)
- 13: Flying to London…. (2)
- 08: 101 Spock invites… (103)
- 08: GMail down for me (10)
- 05: Something *big* from Steve Jobs next week? (2)
May 2007
- 31: At Google Developer Day 07, San Jose… Google Gears looks hawt (7)
- 18: Coming to London June 14-20 for Yahoo! HackDayUK (2)
- 17: Get your tickets for GigaOm/NewTeeVee screening (2)
- 17: Marissa Mayer and Brad Garlinghouse to accompany MC Hammer (1)
- 16: BBC Future Media: So sad to watch the train crash happening (13)
- 14: Bubbletop needs a Rockstar AJAX/Frontend Programmer!
- 13: Major vulnerability with Yak4Ever.com site (16)
- 11: MC Hammer appointed onto board of judges for TechCrunch20 (22)
- 10: Has Upcoming 2.0 been all sucky for you too? Maybe this is why… (2)
- 08: New look for Google Analytics (5)
- 08: London Widget Week – 14-22nd May
- 06: It’s not even into live beta yet and TechCrunch writes up Bubbletop (4)
- 03: When your assets are no longer monetizable: Yahoo! Photos to close (4)
- 03: Announcing Bubbletop… (5)
- 02: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (1)
April 2007
- 27: Jason Calacanis – the master baiter (3)
- 03: Quote of the day (1)
- 02: Yes, DHH, some places really don’t have all-you-can-eat ubiquitous free bandwidth
- 01: April Fools becomes April Power-trip (4)
March 2007
- 30: April Fools comes early, surely? (3)
- 29: Reaching the tipping point: Online ad spend overtakes newspapers in the UK
- 28: TailRank spins out backend as Spinn3r
- 27: Condemning the abusive threats made towards Kathy Sierra (5)
- 18: TechCrunch hires Heather Harde as CEO, will it become a VC firm? (20)
- 16: Mobile MeshWalk around South Park (1)
- 15: Finally able to announce I’m working with Orange France Telecom (15)
- 02: My reactions to the BBC deal with Google/YouTube (12)
- 02: European start-up scene (11)
- 02: Back from London, back to blogging (4)
February 2007
- 20: Offline for a few days (3)
- 15: OT: $30-off Apple Store coupon going spare (5)
- 12: Backstage hosts round-table debate on DRM to kick off it’s first podcast (9)
- 12: Do we really want to aggregate *ALL* our social networks together? (10)
- 09: On linkbaiting, SEO’ing and all that other crap (14)
- 03: Is this Jim Gray? If not plz help!
- 02: Was Mike two-faced over the way he launched TechCrunch20? (4)
- 01: Media landscape in Sweden: no holding back, it’s *all* going online (2)
January 2007
- 30: Flickr forces users to merge account with Yahoo!ID (9)
- 29: Media2.0 Workgroup is go! (1)
- 23: StolenIDSearch.com: Encouraging users to be too casual with their personal info? (5)
- 23: Some thoughts on the BBC’s announced ‘virtual world for kids’ (15)
- 23: BT’s BarCamp PR blunder (6)
- 22: Update on the job hunt (1)
- 22: WordPress 2.1 out today (1)
- 17: Disrupting the disruptives: Kicking it to YouTube + Co by offering your own embedded video player (12)
- 15: Great quote (1)
- 11: I’ve decided to leave Citizen Agency… (19)
- 09: Apple iPhone exists! (2)
- 08: ‘This is> dotBen’ and my new homepage both launched
- 07: MacWorldExpo: iPhone announcement unlikely (2)
- 07: Time.com to publish original material, leaves print magazine behind
- 04: Free exhibit hall tickets to MacWorld Expo (+ some of the parties) (9)
- 04: All Change! This is a ‘serious blogging only’ zone from now on (13)
December 2006
- 20: dotBen (hair)red (5)
- 20: Zudeo partners with BBC to distribute programming in US (4)
- 15: Just one more link plz… (6)
- 15: LeWeb3 fallout: some interesting further (/final?) reading (4)
- 13: Six Apart removes Sam Sethi’s TypePad account? (3)
- 13: Sam Sethi fired by TechCrunch (9)
- 13: Linden isn’t playing a level game with SecondLife usage figures (2)
- 13: Phil Torrone’s open source laser etching business (1)
- 12: I wish I could remove comment moderation… (17)
- 12: LeWeb3: calling bullshit on the politicians from the finger-channel (17)
- 11: Roll on LeWeb3… (where’s the backchannel?) (6)
- 08: Zooomr: “The Power to Unite” (5)
- 06: CNET’s James Kim found dead (1)
- 04: What about a ‘There are no dumb answers’ policy? (3)
- 03: More on Violent Acres… (6)
- 03: Sure, she’s gained popularity, but is it really worth being snarky like Violent Acres? (14)
- 01: Why do we decide things ‘by committiee’? (1)
November 2006
- 27: Do WiFi-based VoIP phones really scale? (6)
- 21: Bonjour on Windows and printer drivers… (42)
- 21: YouTube’r lands presenting job with BBC… sort of (3)
- 17: Levinsohn, Calacanis and Miller to form new company? (2)
- 16: Zune not on sale in San Francisco? (4)
- 14: Modern Life *AIN’T* Rubbish (1)
- 12: Are you upgrading to a new MacBook or MacBookPro? Do you have an old PowerBook going spare? (3)
- 12: Amazon S3 cost savings and the future of utility computing services (1)
- 12: Microsoft: The left arm not talking to the right (1)
- 10: This is Web2.0…? (10)
- 08: Disclosing interests (10)
- 06: JP on SongBird (2)
- 01: Comments fixed (2)
October 2006
- 31: Artists screwed both ways in YouTube deal? (4)
- 26: #67 in the UK100 influential blog list (7)
- 26: Did you get a Chumby in round 2? (2)
- 26: Ev Williams buys back Odeo and Twitter (1)
- 26: Firefox 2.0 bug: looses form data when back button is pushed (6)
- 26: Google can go shove their lexicographical ‘advice’ up their ass (58)
- 24: Firefox 2.0 is go! (2)
- 24: George Bush uses ‘The Google’
- 23: Google Blog Search gets love from Google News (1)
- 19: IE7 hits the streets (3)
- 18: MMORPG: Time the industry started to act responsibly? (5)
- 17: NY Times in your face this weekend (1)
- 16: Tailrank 2.0
- 15: Google would love to buy Yahoo! (so would Fox, AT&T, Microsoft…) (6)
- 13: The fascinating tale of the pro-feminist male blogger and the porno sell-out (7)
- 12: OpenRightsGroup seeks full-time Executive Director (3)
- 11: Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK (2)
- 10: Les Blogs III: Dec 11 + 12 2006, Paris (2)
- 10: Investment opportunity: buy shrink-wrapped Win XP now! (2)
- 09: It’s official: YouTube is now GoogTube (1)
- 08: Red Bull Air Race San Francisco (1)
- 05: Google gets a ping service, ‘full’ blogging search around the corner? (1)
- 02: Yahoo! Hack Day was off the hook (4)
September 2006
- 29: JP Rangasawmi: “I’ve never worked for a competitor” (2)
- 24: Developer network consulting @ Citizen Agency (3)
- 22: Michael Arrington sets the record straight on TechCrush (2)
- 22: Where do old iPods go to die? (5)
- 22: BBC Global News’ Richard Sambrook comes out… (3)
- 20: PBWiki gets an API (2)
- 17: Blog vs Vlog = ASCII vs Binary
- 16: Haight Ashbury meets Chavs (2)
- 11: Life in San Francisco (7)
- 04: BarCampLondon – wow, what a rush. (10)
August 2006
- 31: Return of the crazy hair2.0 (1)
- 31: Friday GeekDinner with… me!
- 30: Google’s Eric Schmidt joins Apple board (18)
- 29: The Future of Web Apps: San Francisco (3)
- 29: Is your domain right for Google web apps? (6)
- 24: Do you know who made your laptop battery? (5)
- 24: Now Apple recalls batteries made by Sony (OEM)
- 24: More on the Gervais/Microsoft UK debacle
- 24: America grants me a work visa – YES! (13)
- 24: Ian Forrester is the new man @ backstage.bbc.co.uk (2)
- 22: META: I’m blogging on the back burner for a little while (1)
- 21: Microsoft UK/Ricky Gervais viral videos – are they real? (21)
- 21: TechCrunch Party (1)
- 18: Some thoughts on Apple’s ‘Report on iPod Manufacturing (in China)’ (4)
- 18: (Google) Writely re-opens beta (2)
- 17: Boring update to GTalk ships (8)
- 17: More thoughts on the status quo of the A-List (6)
- 17: Why are *we* the bottom feeders? (2)
- 17: Kevin Anderson’s off to Guardian (1)
- 16: Great free PDF creation tool for Windows (4)
- 16: Ashley Highfield puff-piece in the Independent (4)
- 15: Why I have an ‘extreme’ alter-ego (8)
- 15: Confirmed: Dell to recall some batteries
- 15: Guy Kawasaki on getting a job in Silicon Valley (1)
- 15: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the latest A-list blogger? (3)
- 15: Our Wedding Flickr is up (1)
- 13: Microsoft launches Windows Live Writer, a blog authoring tool (4)
- 11: Sofia and I get hitched (21)
- 09: Linked In on LinkedIn without my consent (9)
- 09: Wow, I want one of each… (4)
- 08: Niall follows his heart and goes solo (1)
- 08: Every UK postcode given an E-Society rating (8)
- 07: Google to provide search + ads for MySpace (and other Fox properties) (4)
- 07: AOL releases search data on 500k users… and then tries to take it back (19)
- 07: Announcing BarCampLondon: Sep 2-3 2006 (10)
- 05: That Arrington, he must be making a packet with CrunchBoards
- 03: The rumours were true: AOL goes free (1)
- 01: Vista to have version control after all, sort of (3)
- 01: Lebanon crisis: everything else pales into insignificance (19)
July 2006
- 31: Dell blog (still?) removing comments (6)
- 27: Google to offer Bug Tracking and Subversion hosting (3)
- 27: I had a change of heart… (24)
- 25: Backstage.bbc.co.uk wins Innovation Award (12)
- 22: Great day out at the British Motor Show 2006 (2)
- 22: Fake my ID, be dotBen, and have a party (4)
- 18: OpenBC launches design competition – what a great idea! (2)
- 18: India bans access to TypePad, Blogspot and GeoCities (2)
- 17: Neville on Astroturfing, Me on Project Astroturfing (Mk II) (5)
- 17: Attempted burglary on our appartment (2)
- 17: More on my move to San Francisco (5)
- 16: The Economist on Apple DRM lock-in (3)
- 14: Preloadr – image pre-processing for Flickr
- 11: Free wifi cafe culture begins to create friction (7)
- 08: Rocketboom: yeah, so what? (5)
- 04: Joining forces with Tara and Chris at the Citizen Agency (25)
- 04: Gnomex 6.0 – a fantastic conference (2)
- 02: BBC confirms plans to put adverts on International websites (7)
June 2006
- 30: Gnomedex: locking out the backchannel (1)
- 29: PayPal is f’ked (3)
- 24: Deep in thought in San Francisco (3)
- 17: BarCampSanFrancisco + Gnomedex 6.0, and perhaps BloggerCon IV too
- 16: The British take on the Sony Bravia/San Francisco advert… (7)
- 16: @Media 06 Conference is supposedly happening (3)
- 13: BBC News adds live stats (+ XML) (5)
- 12: The first day in a brave new world (7)
- 11: Robert Scoble departs from Microsoft (1)
- 09: Wow, BBC Newsnight links *back* to Digg… (4)
- 07: If I was a town, I’d be San Luis Obispo (6)
- 07: Tara says bye-bye to Riya (2)
- 06: New Microsoft fonts in Office 2007 (3)
May 2006
- 31: Pirate Bay crew arrested, site down (19)
- 31: Why SecondLife/Flickr Mashup is REALLY cool… (2)
- 25: O’Reilly claim copyright over “Web2.0” (7)
- 25: Smack-your-Mac Interface (1)
- 25: META: Does this site need a new skin? (6)
- 25: Orkut and Blogger: Algorithms aren’t the answer to everything (4)
- 24: Google Mail (+ Google Talk) down and unavailable (4)
- 24: Podcast.com launches
- 24: BBC Open Earth Archive gets a BAFTA (1)
- 24: iDon’t.com Part I: an poor response to an important issue (7)
- 18: Follow up to New Scientist article on Mashups (1)
- 17: MacBook keyboad really sucks (20)
- 16: The MacBook is launched (8)
- 16: F’ked over twice by Skype “free calls” announcement (5)
- 15: EXCLUSIVE: BBC ‘cab driver’ was really there for a job interview! (3)
- 15: BBC gaff #2 (2)
- 14: Bit Torrent legal loophole? (10)
- 14: Web 2.0 doesn’t work in the mothership, but… (1)
- 12: LG Chocolate phone (102)
- 11: Health and Safety issues create “Top of the Flops” @ BBC (2)
- 11: Which laptop should I get? (11)
- 11: We Media 06 (1)
- 10: MySpace IM launches, what about a MMORPG? (17)
- 02: We Media + We Media Fringe
- 02: The rumours are true: I’m leaving the BBC… (16)
- 02: Sphere blog search launches (4)
April 2006
- 29: Must be flattery… (1)
- 26: Launch#2: reboot:bbc.co.uk
- 26: Launch #1: BBC Programme Catalogue (1)
- 26: Find, Play, Share: The BBC’s Creative Future (1)
- 25: Apple announce 17″ MacBook Pro
- 23: Off to Canada… (3)
- 21: The leak, the bloggers and the “MySpace Killer” (1)
- 21: Tara and Chris in Bangalore
- 19: John Dvorak: Apple Needs to Make OS X Open-Source (4)
- 13: Google launches calendar service (3)
- 12: Attention and The Trojan Horse of ‘Free Internet’
- 08: BBC launches Blog Network & Blog Portal (7)
- 07: Want to take part in the We Media 2006 conference? (4)
- 06: Have you seen ZoomInfo? (2)
March 2006
- 31: danah vs Bill O’Reilly on MySpace (7)
- 28: Response to danah’s MySpace essay (10)
- 26: A sad day to be Canadian… (3)
- 20: Mix06: Backchannel (4)
- 20: Mix06: Streamed Live
- 20: Mix06: IE7 Beta 2 Preview just released
- 19: A sad git in Las Vegas (4)
- 16: Welcome to the Ben Metcalfe State-Side Experience
- 09: Straight from the #etech backchannel
- 07: Origami is out, it’s a mini Tablet PC
- 07: Ray Ozzie launches Live Clipboard and Wired Web concepts at ETech
- 06: Bye-bye LA (2)
- 06: BarCampLA Roundup
- 06: Adaptive Path 5th Party (1)
- 05: @ BarCampLA (2)
- 02: Making an appearance at BarCampLosAngeles
February 2006
- 27: Being a geek in San Francisco (12)
- 26: San Francisco ‘Out of Towner’ with Ben Metcalfe (2)
- 26: Contacting me whilst I’m in the USA
- 26: San Francisco bound… (2)
- 23: Google Page Creator (+ webhosting) (5)
- 20: MySpace on the Daily Show (4)
- 20: Andy Budd and the Mastery of CSS (2)
- 19: Steve Gillmor’s “bullshit detector spray”
- 19: Hair2.0 (5)
- 17: Where do you put all that other stuff? (43)
- 16: Get your sign up codes for coComment (4)
- 15: Google buys Measure Map (and gets Jeffrey Veen) (2)
- 14: MAKE something to kill yourself? (1)
- 14: Is it worth going to Mix06 out of my own pocket? (2)
- 14: Join the BBC’s grid computing experiment (4)
- 14: Cool Yahoo! Design Pattern bling (1)
- 13: coComment: Scoble says…
- 10: Gmail on your domain
- 10: A bad couple of days in the office (2)
- 06: My OPML (5)
- 06: Russell Beattie drops comments (25)
- 06: The 14 year old coders are back (2)
- 05: CoComment: semantically forked conversation? (17)
- 05: Citizen Journalists, you are now ‘witness contributors’ (2)
- 05: Should you really Digg it? (6)
- 05: LIFT06 – Audio and Video (2)
- 05: Valleywag – I take it back
- 05: CoComment and the Conversation Index (9)
- 03: Valleywag- you call that content? (4)
- 03: Google Earth + Flash = Flash Earth (1)
- 01: Wikipedia traffic exceeds bbc.co.uk (3)
January 2006
- 31: Google confirm they ARE working on an OS (1)
- 31: Did Google have a third option in China? (1)
- 30: Evil companies can turn good (7)
- 30: Near-miss over London (5)
- 22: “The world according to Google”, a BBC Programme (7)
- 21: The Thames Whale has died (3)
- 20: A whale is swimming in The Thames (8)
- 19: Yes, I’m lucky to be a conference whore… (6)
- 19: The dangers of off-loading your privacy abroad (3)
- 19: Post-Cluetrain marketing tips by Tara (1)
- 19: Firefox’s new ping attribute (3)
- 17: Roof-top advertising for Google Maps (3)
- 14: Mobile Phone Moan (59)
- 14: Cool PSP case recommendation (+ giveaway!) (11)
- 12: PSP v2.60 firmware hacked for homebrew! (2)
- 11: Facebook connections with the CIA?
- 11: BBC’s Power of Nightmares now on Google Video (3)
- 10: O’Reilly ETech in Secure Site Shocker (7)
- 09: London Geek Dinner with Dave Shea (23 Jan 06) (2)
- 09: Register 50 free .be domains
- 09: Downside to Skype/Netgear agreement
- 05: Google to sell video and give away software bundle(?)
- 05: George Galloway in Big Brother UK (10)
- 05: New Musical Experiences: an exellent paper by Dan Hill (2)
- 05: Epic 2014 for the financial markets (4)
- 05: I refuse to “register” to post to comment to a blog (10)
- 03: Don’t sign up for goowy.com (11)
- 03: 2005: Year of the digital citizen (and Yahoo!’s digital citizens) (1)
- 03: Another late night post… (2)
December 2005
- 31: I’m joining the “Web2.0 is dead” meme (6)
- 31: FactoryJoe: “I Represent Me” (3)
- 31: MySQL database caching in PHP (9)
- 31: Mashup Camp in San Francisco
- 29: “How Women and Men Use the Internet” (4)
- 29: Catch up post (9)
- 25: Merry Christmas! (2)
- 23: Cool as fuck (4)
- 23: Upgraded to WordPress 2.0 RC3
- 21: Automattic becomes the WordPress family
- 21: Interesting insights from the Google Zeitgeist 2005
- 20: What are your predictions for 2006? (5)
- 20: Power of 10 video (3)
- 18: Google search for “**” (6)
- 18: “Market position, not technical brilliance” (7)
- 17: Google: What did they actually get for their $1bn? (4)
- 16: Simply bizarre webcomic (2)
- 16: [Housekeeping] Illness, comments back on moderation, 410-gone (3)
- 16: More Con’s to put on the expense account… (1)
- 13: BBC News releases Creative Archive video clips (12)
- 12: The all-new Talking Shop Podcast (4)
- 12: Some issues the blogosphere needs to address (23)
- 09: Yahoo gets del.icio.us (4)
- 07: Dave Winer wades in (47)
- 07: Les Blogs: Me + Mena (125)
- 06: News from Les Blogs (11)
- 06: First mainstream BBC blog launched (2)
- 05: Les Blogs – all too much for Canter
- 05: Ready for Les Blogs to kick off (3)
- 05: Bound for Paris (3)
- 03: Getting ready for Les Blogs, Paris
- 02: Adam Curry bigging up his ego on Wikipedia? (2)
- 01: GoogleTalk gets it’s own blog
November 2005
- 30: My favourite car, wrecked! (1)
- 30: (off topic) Is this blog to erratic? (9)
- 29: PSP firmware 2.6 is out – RSS and podcasting! (3)
- 29: Ev Williams: 10 rules for startups (1)
- 28: Xbox 360: hard as nails (1)
- 28: Never forget the value chain (1)
- 28: A new microformat (1)
- 28: Fasterfox: when Firefox Extensions go bad! (23)
- 27: Sony PSP Talkman – a potentially brilliant tool
- 27: Blog template bugs fixed (5)
- 27: London Perl Workshop (1)
- 27: Any ideas?
- 25: backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up – Dec 12th (3)
- 24: AJAX training
- 23: The technology behind sucicide bombs (8)
- 22: Feedster 500
- 22: diggdot.us – don’t.like.it
- 22: HearFromYourMP.com (2)
- 18: XTech2006 Call for Participation
- 18: Google Analyitics now works for me (wrongly says “no data”)
- 18: An interesting post on why Google Base is great
- 18: Still no Google Analytics (3)
- 18: Riya – when the “open concept” goes too far (REPOST) (5)
- 16: Google Base launched, but what is it? (2)
- 15: Les Blogs here I come
- 15: Anyone getting any stats from Google Analytics? (14)
- 15: A take on why Web2.0 can’t be defined (2)
- 15: More on that crappy wine… (2)
- 11: I can see the sea! (2)
- 10: UK concert ticket industry whinges about the Internet (4)
- 09: Post MoMo London update (2)
- 09: Things I never knew about Brian Eno… (2)
- 07: BBC News offers AV RSS – a correction (2)
- 07: MoMo London
- 07: Kayak Buzz – find cheap flights via Google Maps
- 04: Amazon Mechanical Turk (1)
- 04: BBC News offers AV RSS (2)
- 01: IMDB for BBC Programmes (4)
- 01: Looking for a MediaWiki Template designer… (1)
October 2005
- 31: Since when was Wikipedia Web2.0? (1)
- 30: Blog for sale? (1)
- 30: Ben Metcalfe Blog goes all RebotCast
- 30: Sunday night nerves in preparation for tomorrow’s return to work (5)
- 29: Red Bee, bloody daft (4)
- 27: Hamachi – free VPN/LAN-over-net (4)
- 25: Does presentation matter anymore? (8)
- 25: Sky News launches its first blog (1)
- 24: Coming home… (2)
- 24: Tokyo Update (4)
- 23: Also in the news… (3)
- 23: Public transport in Tokyo (2)
- 18: New look Have Your Say launches (1)
- 18: Was I reading a biography of myself? (3)
- 18: Arrived in Tokyo (1)
- 18: The Magnificent Plaza Hotel was magnificent (3)
- 18: Technology standards in China – a concerning issue
- 18: Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix (2)
- 14: Nanshi and Old Shanghai (2)
- 14: Internet access in China (9)
- 12: Lee’s been spotted by Meg (1)
- 12: The Oriental Pearl Tower and the Jin Mao Tower (2)
- 12: Sightseeing update
- 12: Fire on the streets of Shanghai (1)
- 12: Smells, red lights and pesky peddlers (2)
- 11: Comunisism Spam (3)
- 11: My Dad on BBC News Website (2)
- 11: Hello from Shanghai! (2)
- 08: Out Of Office: I’m off to get mental oriental!
- 08: BBC News goes all Slahdot and Kuro5hin (2)
- 07: Your feedback on iMP
- 06: …then again (3)
- 06: Video iPod is coming (1)
- 05: London Geek Dinner with Tim O’Reilly 13th Oct
- 03: Review of the BBC iMP beta (10)
- 03: Open Content Alliance launches
- 03: ResFest London 2005 – what a great day
- 01: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
September 2005
- 29: Free DivX “Create” bundle
- 29: “Copy Fight LDN” @ Resfest 2005, London (1)
- 28: Overclock your mac mini (2)
- 28: 7 out of 10 people don’t know what a blog is (5)
- 27: Francis Alÿs’s Seven Walks (2)
- 26: Google on “crappy wine” (3)
- 26: The future of TV at Yahoo!
- 26: An open “letter/blog post” to users from “Biased BBC Website” (5)
- 26: Danah Boyd: “consume and produce as a connected process” (4)
- 26: Google admit they are manipulatable
- 21: A little spat with Hugh MacLeod (16)
- 20: London Geek Dinner with Scoble: 10th Dec 2005 (18)
- 20: Don’t buy junk (4)
- 20: Opera sings free
- 16: Google BlogSearch = more spam (2)
- 16: Blogs and the UK (3)
- 15: Bush: “Can I go to the toilet, please?” (9)
- 15: London Underground to run one hour later on Friday and Saturday nights? (3)
- 15: Intel chips cost just £25/$40 to make (1)
- 14: Google Blog Search launches (2)
- 12: Introducing the NAZR
- 12: eBay buys Skype (1)
- 12: New look Guardian (1)
- 09: Plus.Net broadband is cool (1)
- 09: Pete Clifton, the subtle genius
- 09: Crazy hotel rooms (4)
- 09: Cool: Naked Nano (2)
- 09: What I overheard in Starbucks… (1)
- 08: “Our Social World”: I’m not being social (11)
- 08: Bean counting at the BBC (8)
- 08: Rip, mix and win: First Creative Archive competition (2)
- 08: Normal service is resumed (2)
- 07: US Navy jamming radio communications in New Orleans?
- 05: SixApart’s 32 favourite features in Movable Type 3.2: there’s only 25 of them
- 05: Steve Ballmer: “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy” (2)
- 05: Welcome to the WikiFarm (1)
- 04: Google: Just how much is too much? (4)
- 01: British banks profit from a nation of debt (2)
August 2005
- 30: One day special: Free licences for Opera browser (2)
- 30: Matt Locke does a “David Bailey” (2)
- 29: More thoughts on the future of Podcast managed services (3)
- 29: Blogging and podcast start-up paradigms (7)
- 26: Just can’t think straight this week (3)
- 22: It’s not every day you see a… (3)
- 20: Chilling in Göteborg, Sweden
- 17: Feedster Top 500, the Long Tail and measureing true success (2)
- 17: New feature on Google search results (1)
- 17: Email filters gone mad
- 16: Are blogs the first real example of the Internet moving away from being a derivative medium? (1)
- 16: FooCamp: No, I didn’t get an invite either (4)
- 16: Did the BBC use Wikipedia to viral-market alternative reality game? (3)
- 16: BBC releases first offerings from the Creative Archive (3)
- 12: Not playing fair undermines Open Media
- 11: Flaws with the eBay Trust model (5)
- 11: CacheLogic: “The True Picture of Peer-To-Peer Filesharing”
- 09: Addictive flash game (1)
- 09: What is the Google Admin Console? (5)
- 09: Google News RSS opens up a whole set of rights issues (8)
- 08: Ahhhh… code!
- 07: Hotel recommendation for Tokyo?
- 06: My issues with PayPal
- 05: Excited to be going to Shanghai and Tokyo…
- 05: Elevator Hack – I think it works
- 04: Need a North American credit card? (3)
- 04: How we spend our time online (1)
- 04: Yahoo! launches Podcast and audio search
- 04: BBC News Website Doh! (2)
- 04: O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2006 call for participation (1)
- 03: PSP browser: ok but no cigar (5)
- 03: Yahoo! beta ad service for blogs and smaller websites
- 02: Al Gore tries to remain ‘current’ (2)
- 02: Elevator Hacks (15)
- 02: Deer Park Alpha 2 (3)
- 01: When it comes to email, why are so many people so dumb?
- 01: Yet another FOAF network to join… (3)
- 01: Looking for a ‘man bag’ (34)
- 01: 90% of the time, we ‘get it’ (8)
- 01: Timeline of a podcast
July 2005
- 28: Branson claims his Virgins (3)
- 27: Podcast: Ben Metcalfe Podcast #0(beta) (4)
- 25: Jamie Kane has died (4)
- 25: TV-Anytime Perl parser released
- 25: Ultimate Geek Bling Prize (2)
- 25: Wired article about mobile phone use on the Grime scene (2)
- 24: backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 05 was great (3)
- 22: Surprise birthday party at work (1)
- 21: Another day, another set of bombs (1)
- 19: Naughty GreaseMonkey (2)
- 18: Special Geek Dinner: Jeremy Zawodny
- 18: Google producing a podcasting search engine?
- 18: US programmer pays Indian developer to do his job (3)
- 18: Blog birthday (4)
- 17: Lack of updates, busy week (1)
- 17: How safe is your RSS reader?
- 15: Microsoft Coding4Fun on MSDN
- 15: Ultimate keyboard? (1)
- 14: We remember (1)
- 14: Please remember the victims of the London bombings
- 12: BBC Open Source website launches (1)
- 11: 40,000 hits per second… (2)
- 11: Bike riding seems to be popular
- 08: London Tube Delays in RSS back up (4)
- 08: BBC AV News RSS feeds tidied up (1)
- 08: ICE: In Case of Emergency (5)
- 07: London Blasts: Quick follow up
- 07: London Blasts: Sofia and Ben are safe (2)
- 06: Olympics 2012: More thoughts on today’s announcement
- 06: East London gets the 2012 Olympics!
- 05: UFO: Finally identified (7)
- 05: Mobile GMaps: Google Maps on your J2ME mobile
- 03: Pink Floyd: They’ve still got it
- 02: backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech Event (July 23rd 2005) (2)
- 02: Make Corruption History (6)
June 2005
- 29: Google make Map API available (finally) (1)
- 29: Kano drops his first album (+ welcome to grime) (2)
- 29: More Grok please, we’re British!
- 28: backstage.bbc.co.uk launches 7 day TV and radio XML listings
- 28: Troll, Gadfly or Culture Jammer? (2)
- 28: Fantastic content from the BBC website (2)
- 28: Woof Woof (2)
- 28: MS RSS extensions: do we/don’t we? (1)
- 23: Amazon have trademarked “Real Name™” (1)
- 23: Sony attempts to “impound” grey-import PSPs
- 23: Microsoft to bastardise RSS
- 21: Play real world Monopoly – free! (4)
- 20: WordPress Stats package recommendation please (1)
- 17: Mi5 warns high-tech workers about foreign espionage (1)
- 17: RSS has become common (4)
- 17: Swamped by W32.Mytob.EH@mm
- 14: eBay and Live8 – capitalism vs anti-capitalism (1)
- 13: 20 questions of the dark side
- 13: My Dad’s pissed off (3)
- 13: x86 Tiger OSX already leaked (unless it’s snake-oil) (1)
- 12: My favourite 5… Computer + Software gadgets (5)
- 11: (off topic) New .htaccess on my blog (13)
- 10: BBC recording equipment appears on eBay
- 10: Microsoft previews Acrylic, a new graphics app
- 10: What am I currently reading?
- 09: backstage.bbc.co.uk at the SkillCity conference, London
- 08: June ‘s London Geek Dinner (2)
- 07: Geek Dinner London
- 07: Does this mean Windows on Apple?
- 06: Apple moving to Intel – “yeah, but it ain’t going to be x86… is it?”
- 05: Sin City: simply fantastic (4)
- 03: More tech please, Kevin (1)
- 02: BBC News used to promote 419 scam
- 02: .xxx porn domain agreed
- 02: O’Reilly Radar spots backstage.bbc mapping prototypes
- 02: New Microsoft Office will save in XML
- 01: Geek Dinner London, almost too late but not quite… (1)
- 01: Take the Search Engine Soda Challenge with Rusty (8)
- 01: Yahoo! publishes employee blog guidelines
- 01: Meg Hourihan interview
May 2005
- 26: I’ve written a bittorrent search engine too – and soon you can have it!
- 25: I’ve migrated from b2evolution to wordpress (62)
- 14: Jenson Button starts the Gumball 3000 Rally (2)
- 12: BBC News on backstage.bbc.co.uk (1)
- 11: backstage.bbc.co.uk launches!!! (5)
- 10: Cory Doctorow on the BBC RSS license (2)
- 09: BBC News relaunches RSS
- 07: Slow downloads with new version of Azureus? (7)
- 06: Paxman get’s stuck in with Respect’s George Galloway (3)
- 05: Vote 2005 – Be in the majority: stay at home (7)
- 04: Cool job @ Yahoo! (1)
- 03: View source in Flash… (1)
- 02: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – GREAT film
- 02: Did Adam sell out? (2)
April 2005
- 28: Top 100 brands on the Internet
- 27: Have you typed “liar” into Google, recently?
- 26: Microsoft wants your “future concept” user experience ideas (2)
- 25: Punters finally realise why DRM is bad (3)
- 24: List the perl modules installed on your box (2)
- 22: A study of the users and and uses of del.icio.us
- 22: Get a free MMS tag (2)
- 21: Map of Terrorism (3)
- 20: Freetag: PHP/MySQL Tagsonomy pluggin (1)
- 18: Hardware hacking in Iraq (2)
- 18: Adobe buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion
- 13: Too cliquey?
- 13: The Creative Archive
- 13: My PSP arrived! (5)
- 12: This blog never meant to get political, but…
- 11: Why “maintream media” neads blogs (1)
- 10: Hacker Lessons (3)
- 07: Spoil your ballot paper (8)
- 07: Respect Party in Bethnal Green and Bow (13)
March 2005
- 17: ETech 2005 (1)
- 09: Catch the blug (2)
- 08: More mobile madness
- 08: Off to Etech (4)
February 2005
- 24: Protect your site from AutoLink, Google’s evil side (1)
- 23: Bram Cohen technical talk on Bit Torrent
- 17: Webcam security: proof it works (13)
- 16: A fast Internet connection: The paradox (part 1) (7)
- 16: Out-of-the-box things you can do with RSS
- 15: You can now WriteToThem.com
- 13: Back to the blog (2)
- 09: Broadband BBC News AV Console RSS feeds are back! (1)
January 2005
- 14: “Power of Nightmares” re-awakened (2)
- 13: London Conference: @Media 2005 (Web Standards & Accessibility), 9th – 10th June (2)
- 11: Apple present the “Mac Mini” but what’s the deal for us Brits? (1)
- 07: The Times endoreses the BBC News AV Player for it’s “online innovation”
- 04: BSkyB patents “advert skipping” in TV playback – is this a blocking tactic? (1)
December 2004
- 28: London Underground Tube Delays in RSS! (4)
- 25: My blog friendly Flickr front-end PHP script (4)
- 24: Starbucks suffers social engineering prank (1)
- 23: For the second time ever, I got Scombroid Toxin Poisoning (5)
- 23: BBC News 3rd most linked to News source in blogs (1)
- 16: Yahoo! push Media RSS format extension (1)
- 16: Yahoo! launches Video Search Beta
- 15: BBC launches “Popular and New” (1)
- 11: “The future’s bright” – and we don’t need to prove it… (1)
- 07: Beastie Boys (1)
- 07: Yahoo! licenses their brand, forgets to oversee design QA
- 07: BBC to move it’s new media arm to Manchester
- 06: Lycos antispam site taken offline
- 03: USB over IP (2)
- 02: As predicted Lycos’ Anti-Spam Screensaver kicks servers off Internet (2)
November 2004
- 30: Is Google helping to perpetuate censorship in China? (2)
- 29: How to explode (online) TV news in four easy steps
- 29: Lycos releases screensaver that DoS’s spammers
- 29: Online community a policy tool?
- 27: Only 50% of UK homes consume Digital TV ? what happened to the other half? (1)
- 25: Forget the PSP, what about the PS2 Portable?
- 22: AOL/Netscape call for browser beta testers
- 21: MySQL “replace” is your friend (7)
- 17: Camera phones “a threat to privacy”
- 15: “Rodeohead” do Radiohead (mp3) (1)
- 15: New MSN Search algorithm could _still_ do with a tweak
- 11: New MSN Search algorithm could do with a tweak
- 10: “Dual-use” bag on Ryanair
- 08: Been busy, yet not much to write
- 03: Comparion of US Election maps (7)
- 02: PHP MMS encoder and decoder
- 01: Only 13% of Europeans want to watch video on a “portable video player” type device
October 2004
- 28: The most stupid convergence device so far?
- 28: Bush website confirms it’s blocked Int’ users in response to hacking (1)
- 27: Bush website blocked outside US (1)
- 27: Yahoo! News launches RSS Search (2)
- 27: Guardian’s “lobby an American swing voter” hacked and deemed a failure?
- 25: Yahoo about to ramp up their web service propositions? (2)
- 19: BBC News & BBC Sport Printable Digest (6)
- 18: Free book: We the Media, Dan Gilmore
- 14: Google launches search for your PC
- 13: Further improvements to my BBC News Audio Video RSS output (17)
- 11: Better access to audio/video material from BBC News Online… (+ RSS option) (8)