Web 2.0 or Blah 2.0?

With apologies to the Marcus Angermeier whose original is the famous:

What is Web 2.0?
I was asked this question this week by the organiser of an event that I was asked to talk about called “Power your Business with Web 2.0” (I can’t seem to direct link the event on the Creative Networks site?)
You know what [...]

Give your homepage a mini facelift in about 3 hours

“The plumber’s tap always drips”, or so they say. The same is true of web consultancies.
For a good few years I’ve had a nagging embarassment at my own company website, 3form, in that it hasn’t changed significantly since about 2002 when I first built it in about 48 hours over a weekend.
Geekier readers will know [...]

Change your wireless router password right now

Yesterday I was honoured to attend my first School of Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board meeting at Birmingham University. Amongst the esteemed people I was mixing with I got talking at length to Andrew Watson from Object Management Group and the man behind no2id.net - a very convincing series of arguments on why the compulsory [...]

Is Birmingham “Getting it?” - Creativity and Culture feature in the West Midlands Power 50

Yesterday evening was the launch of the Birmingham Post’s much anticipated supplement, the “Power 50 - Who is really shaping the future of the West Midlands?” at Birmingham Future’s AGM. The supplement is out today and apparently I’m ‘in’ at number 20, which was a something of a pleasant surprise, especially given the tough month [...]

Oh No Logo – an article for the Birmingham Post

Following the blog post I wrote about the new 2012 Olympics identity, I was invited to write a short piece for the Birmingham Post which was published today. Here’s it is:
The new identity for the London 2012 Olympics was launched this week and it would be generous to describe the public’s reaction to it as [...]