I know there are quite a few out there, but when I tried to use them to generate potential keyword lists for Box UK’s User Experience Services, I found them all a little clunky (Why post back to the server? Do it in Javascript!). So I decided to very quickly create my own AdWord...
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Archive for April, 2010
AdWord & SEO Keyword Permutation Generator
Creating 100 Megan Foxii
A couple of people have asked me how I created the image of 100 Megan Foxii (100 images of Megan Fox superimposed). It’s actually really simple, using PHP. In fact, it only took about 20 lines of code: <?php // Get list of all photos$aImg = array_diff(scandir('./photos/'), array('.','..')); // Create blank white canvas$im =...
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Amorphous Blog. Or: “Spreading Myself Too Thinly”
The success of blog posts fascinates me. Sometimes you can post something that you are sure will grab attention, and it fizzles quickly into obscurity. Other times, you can knock out something vapid and it spreads like wildfire. Last June I wrote a post called Analyzing the Design of Websites: Apple, Microsoft & 37...
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The RSS Reader Model is Wrong
In the physical world, I buy Private Eye but skip the ‘funny’ comic section. I buy newspapers, but skip the TV and Sports sections. I’ll also infrequently buy other magazines like Wired, The Economist or Monocle and selective scan/read through them. I certainly don’t read everything in each magazine, but am not frustrated that...
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You Can’t Emulate A Successful Strategy By Emulating The Tactics
The main UK political parties boggle my mind. With access to the brightest minds, and with big wallets, they still seem to think that their future depends on copying as much of President Barack Obama’s winning strategy as possible. But it doesn’t work like that. You can’t just start emphasising the word ‘Change’, or mimic...
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Write-up of “Classic 20th Century Design” Bathcamp talk
I finally got around to writing up the talk I gave at Bathcamp a few weeks ago, Classic Geeky Objects of the 20th Century, though I actually decided to remove two of the original objects I mentioned, including the Atari CX40 joystick (pictured above). Before you ask, I purposefully chose not to include any Apple...
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