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O2k Blog launch

Well..

I think we’ll be filling in some previous months with content from our own sites, but right now the redesign is progressing nicely and we’d prefer to work on code than content, so the words will need to wait.

In the meantime: I’ve been writing for CreateDigitalMusic for a couple of weeks. We’re launching Create Digital Motion soon, but in the meantime here are some recent posts:

Scratching Visuals: the VJ Arms Race
For Those Dark Club Environments: DIY LED Light
More Control: Wrangle Multiple Computers with Synergy

Ads For Your Blog: Simple Code for Calling OpenX’s Single Page Call Within Wordpress Using current_post

Advertising is one of those “necessary evils” of the web, and of non-ecommerce blogs in particular. For blogs which aren’t associated with a particular product or revenue-generating business, advertising is the main way to pay the bills. It’s not something which generally enhances a site, but we try our hardest to ensure that it’s not [...]

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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists, or: Why Oxygen Kiosk doesn’t offer SEO Services

I had a chat with a new client the other day about why we don’t consider “Search Engine Optimization” an optional extra, or even a service that we offer.
This morning there was a great string of posts on Merlin Mann’s twitter:
If you’re “insulted” by criticism of SEO, go write a novel or work at a [...]

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Open Migration: Rescuing Content and Images from Squarespace

We’re currently helping our clients at Dubspot migrate their blog from Squarespace to a new system which will be built around a multi-user setup of Wordpress.
Squarespace’s propaganda goes on about “Total Data Portability”, and how “your data is yours to keep”. However, when it comes to moving to another system, there’s no automated method to [...]

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