Posts under ‘Web/Tech’

In some ways reading the book What Would Google Do? was the perfect accompaniment to my departure from San Francisco last week. It sets out to describe the enormous changes that our near-on instinctive use of the web have already heralded, and more importantly, where it points to the future. All with a central [...]

Off topic post on journalism
Having started my career in journalism in a local newspaper it’s distressing to hear about the severe affects of the recession on the regional press, as set out in a piece in yesterday’s Guardian. The headline is Where the Hell do we Go Now?, which sounds a little over-dramatic until you [...]

As I jump headlong into digital, the fact of its environmental impact is somewhat sobering in amongst the excitement of online growth and development. The issue flared up last week over figures released on the impact of a Google search. Reports claimed that one simple search equates to 7g of CO2 – google then counterclaimed [...]

Yes I love lists. Here’s one with nine in it, which by a freak act of nature is the number of the new year that we have entered. I hope I don’t run out of juice by number five:

Slow-tech – It’s the title of a book by author Andrew Price. He’s putting forward a philosophy [...]

Shameless plug time. Building and BD is holding a virtual event similar to the Sustainability Now show that took place in the summer. It’s called Education Now and will cover schools, further education and university buildings, a market that is holding up (for now) in the current dire condition for the construction industry. There’s videos, [...]

More growing pains on the Building forum. Having decided as a team to give a couple of temporary bans to some troublesome users they are back with a vengeance. I’ve just gone back and re-read the really helpful comments from my post of a couple of weeks ago musing on the ethics of moderating and [...]

There wasn’t an entry on this (although there is one on the BRE). Until now. With assistance from my colleague Ed Sexton, who’s a bit of a Wikipedia nut (he recently created an entry on obscure 1990s band the Three Amigos) I’ve started the ball rolling. It’s rather pithier than the LEED entry, which probably [...]

I thought I would introduce another new blogger to come out of the Building fold. Step forward finance editor Tom Bill, who started his Citywatch site last week. Bill clearly has some meaty stories to get his teeth into at the moment – the blog could be renamed Carcrashblog for the next year or so. [...]

I’ve come up with some for the Building site. Some of them are “inspired” by other sites. Not sure about the attempts at humour. here goes:
Forum Rules

Part of the fun of working on a website is the immediacy and flexibility of working up content, changing or adding to it, moving it around etc etc. That’s also the troublesome aspect to this as well. You steam ahead adding sections and extra bits to a site and before long you’ve created a monster [...]