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Two graffiti taggers were jailed today for risking their lives to spray graffiti on the railways for four years, causing £30k of damage.

Matthew Fowler

Matthew [...]

Fire at Legends Hotel on Brighton seafront

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:54:17 GMT

Staff have been evacuated following a blaze at Legends Hotel on Marine Parade this afternoon.

The fire broke out some time after 4.30pm, and at least [...]

Sussex University students in fresh protest

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:31 GMT

Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing

Sussex University students said that they had occupied the refectory at the Falmer campus in a fresh protest.

They were calling for six students who were [...]

My first teach!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:52 GMT

kitty stitch

Since I finished the teaching course (PTTLS) in December, I've not actually applied myself in a search for a teaching post, however, I was asked to teach a group of locals a watercolour class. With none of the students having any past experience, I decided to opt for a simple flower painting on white ground.
I was really surprised at how scared alot of the students were to begin the painting....

Top 8 SEO Extensions for Google Chrome

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:42:51 GMT

I think I speak for many people when I say that Firefox is getting slower and slower, I for one have been putting up with the sluggish performance for a while now, having to settle for using the lighting fast Google Chrome for less analytical SEO work.

The launch of Google Chrome Extensions has now meant I have now finally been able to leave the sluggish Mozilla Firefox behind and speed my...

Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:31:50 GMT

Simon Willison's Weblog

Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts (via). I knew about EC2’s user-data feature—what I didn’t know is that the Alestic and Canonical images are configured so that if the user-data starts with #! the instance will automatically execute it as a shell script as soon as it boots up (after networking has been configured).

A history of the sky

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:49:11 GMT

The Computus Engine

A history of the sky is an installation by the artist Ken Murphy. Every day a camera mounted on the roof of the San Fransisco Exploratorium records time-lapse video of the sky. Each video is then displayed alongside it's chronological neighbour. The result is an elegant and beautiful vision of annual and daily cycles.

The video below shows the work in progress; the first 146 days of the...

Brighton makes it onto Google Street View! Hurrah

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:50:05 GMT

Brighton Daily Photo

And here's where I work!

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Sainsbury’s opens without planning permission

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:25 GMT

Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing

The controversial new Sainsbury’s in Western Road has opened without planning permission for its shopfront and cashpoint.

Councillor Paul Elgood has hit out at Brighton and [...]

Chile earthquake: why Google is the last place to go in a crisis

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:01:45 GMT

I spent the weekend before last searching the internet for news about the well-being of members of my extended family who live just outside Concepcion - the epicentre of the huge earthquake that rocked Chile on 26 February. I was surprised to find that Google quickly became completely irrelevant to my search for information. It just wasn’t fast, micro or specific enough for my needs. At some...

Freelance Video: Paul Silver on Going Freelance, Networking & Clients

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:16:29 GMT

Freelance Advisor

Brighton Farm’s Paul Silver on freelance life, networking and working for clients

Part 2

Google Street View launched in Brighton and Hove

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:33:27 GMT

Google Street View has lanched in Brighton and Hove.

The internet giant’s cars, with cameras mounted on their roofs, were busy photographing all the city’s roads [...]

“Un-boxing” Me & My Web Shadow – flickr photos…

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:50:37 GMT

via flickr.com

My lovely publishers A&C Black sent me an advance copy of my book. It’s a huge moment for me personally – feels like getting exam results through a bit: the culmination of a lot of work over a lot of time and something tangible, real and useful in your hands.

In the spirit of all things geek, I thought I would have some fun and do an "un-boxing" set of pics, like people do...

A quote from Andy Hume

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:31:04 GMT

@Natbat Byeeee. It's been an honour and a pleasure. I pick up a large and daunting baton - I'll try to do you proud. See you soon.

- Andy Hume

South by Twenty Ten

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:15:11 GMT

Adactio

I’m about to head off to Austin for South by Southwest, the annual Bacchanalian geek festival. I’m speaking on a panel again, but this year, the emphasis is very squarely on having fun. MJ very kindly asked me to represent the British contingent on her How to Rawk SXSW panel.

It will be a fun, if somewhat bittersweet affair: Brad Graham was also going to be on the panel. Ol’ bastard Death has...

In my hands at last. :-) #webshadows

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:11 GMT

Just got home from the CIM event in London and the first copy of my book was waiting for me.

Absolutely exultant…

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Delarge post: New album ‘On’ from Jon Clark

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:32 GMT

Delarge

Jon Clark was previously known for smashing Brighton open mics in full biker uniform whilst on pizza delivery. Now has a new album out called 'On'. | 10 March 2010 | 2:03 pm

Site launch! Supporting budding entrepreneurs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:21:03 GMT

NixonMcInnes

After months of hard work, head-scratching, frantic coding and copious tea-drinking by a number of the team here, I’m over the moon to tell you that we’ve just launched a brand new site (I could have had a baby by now. Well, I sort of have, with multiple parentage).

Virgin Media Pioneers is a social networking and video blogging platform, funded by Virgin Media’s Corporate Responsibility team...

A quote from Derek Pennycuff

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:55 GMT

Wishing @Natbat all the best in the future. @Clearleft has no lack of talented people, but I'll be honest. She's always been my favorite. :)

- Derek Pennycuff

Teenage girl seriously hurt after Portslade motorbike crash

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:54 GMT

A 17-year-old Shoreham girl was badly hurt after the motorbike she was riding pillion on crashed with a van in Portslade yesterday morning.

The Suzuki bike was travelling [...]

A quote from Daria

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:33 GMT

@adactio @andyhume @natbat Hope you all will have a great evening :)

- Daria

A quote from Paul Lloyd

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:10:23 GMT

Yet another night that I find myself in the pub! Out with the @clearleft'ies to 'celebrate' @natbat's last day :-(

- Paul Lloyd

A quote from James Bates

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:17 GMT

Back in the Eagle for last day drinks with @natbat and the other @clearleft'ies. Hoping to be joined shortly by the @uk_gumtree product team

- James Bates

A quote from Andy Hume

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:27 GMT

Heading to The Eagle to toast my @clearleft mentor @natbat at the end of her last day.

- Andy Hume

A quote from Jeremy Keith

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:50:53 GMT

C&M* > UK Online PR Agency + Social Media Agency + Social SEO Agency

Going to The Eagle to mark @natbat's last day at @clearleft. I'll miss her: she's the finest front-end developer I have ever known.

- Jeremy Keith

If Trad Digital Agencies Did Engagement/PR/Social (Who Moved My Cheese/Fees?)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:12:42 GMT

I’ve seen a bunch of interesting micro site launches lately that have had me scratching my head. Thought: if the agencies that built them were also responsible for future engagement, PR, and general Social acquisition and whatnot, would they have been built differently?

This is another way of asking the ‘why bother building another micro site?’ question – but from a different perspective...

Page Bienvevido Chubs to Bolivia

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:45:09 GMT

Qube's blog

Hello, this page is for those who like chubby chubby, people who like bears, daddy and fans of these. After much searching the internet and not find a plump web of Bolivia, I decided to create this site, I hope you like it. National Magazine Exchange Ire gradually putting some pictures chubbys, daddys, bear and an occasional video.

The Vandalism of the West Pier

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:20 GMT

richTextFormat.net

The removal of the concert hall section of Brighton’s West Pier is an unforgivable act of council-sponsored vandalism. Brighton & Hove Council leader Mary Mears said ‘The removal of part of the West Pier will be a sad moment‘. She is gravely wrong, choosing to professionally downplay the scale of the political travesty that she [...]

iCrossing client event #webshadows presentation

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:44 GMT

via slideshare.net

These are the slides from a presentation about Me & My Web Shadow I gave to my company’s clients at an event on Friday.

There should be audio up soon on the iCrossing site too…

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Today's idea - Frankly Outrageous

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:42 GMT

Bored of Brighton

Tonight there's a couple of good sounding things including Wordwatching at Komedia and classic horror films in the shape of Godzilla at The Marlborough Little Theatre, but tonight I'm heading to The Brighton Media Centre. Tonight "Frankly Outrageous" by James Weisz is to be performed for your visual stimulation. The plot is thus:

"Three friends reunite following the suicide of a good friend...

Preston Park vegetable garden launched

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:36:05 GMT

The Preston Park demonstration vegetable garden, designed by Harvest Brighton and Hove to inspire people to grow their own, has been launched.

The garden will take [...]

Brighton and Hove Photography (Shameless Plug) for our business.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:33:14 GMT

Brighton Daily Photo

At Brighton & Hove Photography we specialise in creating amazing family portrait photography at affordable prices.

We believe a picture is worth a thousand words - which is why we want to tell your story through a collection of personal family photos.
Our approach to portrait photography is fun and fresh resulting in images that you will simply love forever. The secret to the best natural...

People who bought Me and My Web Shadow also bought…

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:35 GMT