That Danny!

You could be forgiven for thinking that the Evening Standard, sister paper of the Daily (our-country-is-going-down-the-drugs-pan) Mail, has just revealed a coded stance to the cocaine-snorting public.
Beside the doomful story ‘Record numbers killed by ‘dinner party’ cocaine’, it juxtaposed a small inset that highlights the increase in deaths from ’superbug’ Clostridium Difficile. The contrast [...]

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I’ve been asked by Bid Boogie’s PR to review their new UK site. I got some free credits and a promise that I won’t have to be nice (”We would love to hear your feedback and we appreciate that you need to be impartial.”).
Now here’s my problem: I think that Bid Boogie are a [...]

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I was looking at usability companies in the UK for a client, and decided to venture out beyond the usual suspects to see who else is out there, so I looked at Google Adwords for “usability UK”, and clicked on this one:

And this is what I got:

Not a good result for a usability company. [...]

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I got a call from a web design agency yesterday. The lady on the other end was cold calling the company I am consulting to, and somehow got through to me.
Here is a summary of the interaction:
‘I’m calling from agency X’, she said, ‘and I was wondering if you were planning any web design [...]

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The ground is moving under Community libel legislation, one ruling at a time. The latest is a judgement from Justice Eady that Defamation on internet bulletin boards is more like slander than libel. Justice Eady said that bulletin board discussions are characterised by “give and take” and should be considered in that context.
In English law, [...]

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