Posts from year 2012
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Empowered creativity through the social web
The web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee uploaded the first HTML page in 1991. Back then it was a collection of documents linked together by people who apparently believed that sharing information was a good idea.
Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City
Some cities refuse to explain themselves. Istanbul is one of them. You can spend days wandering between mosques, ferry docks and tea houses, convinced you’ve finally figured the place out.
Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul
Istanbul is a fever dream wrapped in layers of marble, minarets, diesel fumes and strong tea. You cannot escape its gravitational pull.
Movie locations around the world
This is the first part of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Mission Impossible, Talented Mr Ripley, Lost in Translation, Fellowship of the Ring, Highlander, French Connection, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Die Another Day, Interview with the Vampire, The Beach, Rendition, La Dolce Vita, Moulin Rouge.
Music on the street
Walking down the street these days feels less like moving through a city and more like navigating a personal soundtrack convention. I see people with headphones everywhere and I often wonder what they listen to. People are plugged in like we’re all extra nodes in some great invisible jukebox.
On vendor prefixes
There’s been a lot of noise lately about vendor prefixes. The sort of noise normally produced when web developers discover that something they thought was merely annoying may in fact be fundamentally broken.
The adaptation of responsive design
Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed web topic of last year. And like most things that become fashionable in our industry, it went remarkably quickly from interesting new idea to essential ingredient that apparently everyone had been doing all along.
Review: Long Way Round
In 2004, actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set off on what sounds like a perfectly reasonable trip from London to New York. But to make things interesting they decided to go eastward on motorbikes.