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How to manage Basecamp to-do tasks better

Our new Mojicamp app makes it easy to view, prioritise and filter all your Basecamp to-do lists in one place.

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A video history of typography

‘Type is power’. A lovely little stop-motion video on the history of typography.

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Is it worth the time?

Sometimes saving time takes longer than the time it saves. Look: xkcd puts it better in chart form.

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Permission to join the conversation - women

Inclusivity vs Elitism – permission to join the conversation

TED and Davos, social media and blogs. When it comes to joining the conversation, both extremes seem to assume that women still require permission to speak.

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Quality not quantity: giving Twitter another try

Rethinking the way I use Twitter. Is it more than a distribution medium for posts? How to get the most out of it? Or should I just give up and do some work instead?

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Improve your home page

15 ways to improve your home page

Your home page has to do an awful lot with very little space and in a very short time. So, here are 15 tips and points of view on making it work well.

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How to do a 30-minute website evaluation

Learn how to approach website evaluation with the right mind-set and convert your reactions into meaningful feedback.

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Azrael’s Tear: The long tail has a happy ending

In 1996, my old company Intelligent Games released a game called walkthroughs as well as some untested, not-endorsed sources for downloading the game itself and some tips about playing the game with DOSBox. Game design documents Anyhow, I discovered the original game design proposal in my archives (otherwise known as the heap of papers under the bed) and I have scanned [...]

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New: Google Calculator

Is this new or am I just the last person on the planet to discover it. I typed in some simple maths question into Google and instead of getting the answer, as I expected, I got a whole calculator. Cool, huh?

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Procrastinate Now! Okay, later.

Years ago, I went to see comedienne Judy Tenuta in London. She joked that her mother used to say to her, ‘You will never amount to anything because you always procrastinate’ and her answers was ‘Just wait…’. (It’s funnier with her delivery, I guess!) Anyhow there’s a great article in the BBC News Magazine about [...]

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