31 October 2025
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Edit: I’ve actually set up a dedicated sub-website for this. You can find it here: https://seasons.markgoodge.com Apparently, the majority of music radio listeners these days prefer stations which focus more on “classic” tracks from the past rather than current chart … Continue reading
18 October 2024
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Have you noticed that websites are increasingly plastered with more and more adverts these days? Have you wondered why that is? Are you maybe blaming greedy website operators, just as you check out the latest ad-blocker extension for your browser? … Continue reading
25 January 2019
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According to various media reports, digital media companies Huffington Post and BuzzFeed are laying off staff as a result of falling online revenues. Cue much handwringing from the online media establishment, who are wondering if, as the Guardian puts it, … Continue reading
7 March 2015
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I recently got involved in an argument on the Internet with a small group of people who think that the web design standards of the 1990s are still valid today. In support of this, one of them pointed me at … Continue reading
5 June 2014
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Back in 2011, I blogged on the disturbing case of Meltwater and the Newspaper Licensing Agency. If you’ve got time, go and read the original article before coming back to this one. But, if you want the TL:DR version here … Continue reading
5 February 2014
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As part of an online discussion about best practice for online web forms which collect personal information, I contributed an extract of a document that I wrote a while ago for internal purposes. Someone asked me if it was online … Continue reading
23 July 2013
by Mark
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Google Maps is going through a bit of a makeover at the moment. There will, sooner or later, be an entirely new version of the web-based maps (which you can see in preview if you switch to the beta option), … Continue reading
4 September 2012
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I blogged a couple of days ago about the fact that Grant Shapps, the new Conservative party chairman, turns out to have founded a company dedicated to selling SEO snake oil. The point of that article wasn’t particularly to criticise … Continue reading
29 January 2012
by Mark
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A minor ripple of news yesterday concerned the fact that Curebit, a “social referral platform”, had been caught ripping off the design and layout of Highrise, a 37 Signals product. 37 Signals, of course, are probably more famous for their … Continue reading
3 November 2011
by Mark
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One of the things about coming to parenthood relatively late is that I’m also late to experience something that all my contemporaries are already only too aware of: Schools are absolutely terrible when it comes to handling payments made by … Continue reading