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NewsLite named a Top 100 Essential Website by The Guardian
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Uncategorized
My off-beat news site NewsLite has been named as a ‘Top 100 Essential Website‘ by The Guardian newspaper — which is nice.
Launched in January, 2008 it’s my home for funny, odd and off-beat news stories. Recent articles have included a woman who paints with espresso coffee, the boom in popularity of micro-pigs as pets and [...]
By me: Twadio a silent radio station
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Uncategorized
Mirror – Pop station plays sound of silence…
Daily Record - New internet radio station plays tracks in your head
Scotsman - Radio silence, but you ‘hear’ catchy tunes
As you know anything quirky or odd is always likely to pique my interest so when I saw a tweet from Stef Lewandowski (@stef) announcing the launch of his new [...]
Goodbye Brightcove Network
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Uncategorized
I just received an email telling me that Brightcove were discontinuing the free version of their video platform.
‘Oh @$%&’, I thought. Over the past year or so I have encouraged a number of clients to go with Brightcove video on their sites. I braced myself for a few angry phone calls.’
“Regretfully, we’ve decided to discontinue [...]
Pick a card any card
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Uncategorized
My new business cards have arrived in a variety of brightly coloured flavours and at first glance it appears I even managed to spell my name correctly, which is good news.
I the box from Moo.com there was also a fun little game which I am going to give a go. Buzzword Challenge, where you try to [...]
Twitter goes manga crazy
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Uncategorized
Yesterday I woke to a very different looking twitter, as I settled down with an espresso to perform the morning ritual of checking overnight tweets I noticed loads of people had updated their avatars.
On closer inspection I found everyone was going manga crazy and at least 25% of the people I follow were now represented [...]
