crowd pleasers: #cmLDN - the first Community Manager London meetup
January 25th 2011 - the first cmLDN meetup for community-minded folk working in and around London hosted by the lovely team at Crayon:
What was it?
A chance for people working with online communities to get together and swap stories, knowledge, advice and support. This time around…
Digital.Leben on ORF
If your Austrian is up to it, on January 2nd there is an interview with me about my work at the Guardian which was recorded during EuroIA in Prague.
6. Bragging by proxy. Signing up to The Guardian’s Facebook app and then clicking on all the posh articles, just so your friends will receive the notification: ”Justin Kington recently read the article ‘God Particles and their role in the ontology of Julian Assange’.” We know the truth: a full log of what you’ve been reading on the internet would not look so pretty.This will wipe the smile off anyone’s Facebook
2011 Tech Rewind: This Year in Media
Mentions lots of the things I care about: Facebook, ebooks, phone hacking, Storify, aggregation and WikiLeaks
The Top Ten Media Apps of 2011 | The Next Web Media
includes Facebook’s media partnerships (with the Guardian amongst others), and FT breaking away from Apple.
UXmas at the Guardian
Last night we threw open the Guardian’s door for “UXmas” - a chance to meet people from the UX and design teams, hear a couple of talks, and eat some mince pies before retiring to the pub.
Karen…
“Presents for all!” - my festive #jcarn post
I’m hosting December’s “Carnival of journalism” on the Guardian Developer blog, so it would be a bit remiss not to join in myself. As neither a hack nor a hacker, I thought I’d take the liberty…
Why I’ve closed comments on my blog
I’ve switched off comments for the time being on this blog. Despite having lots of anti-spam measures in place (including Akismet before you ask) there is a particular breed of comment spam that…
One story that I have heard time and time again, is that these genius kids are failing in ICT at school, because their teachers cannot mark their work. I mentioned this in the Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast and I am often asked to back up my claims!My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework | Emma Mulqueeny
“The psychology of engagement” - Mo Syed at UX People

At the end of November Kings Place hosted UX People, organised by Zebra People. Here are my notes from one of the sessions…
“Design is complex in a mathematical sense. You could…
