"It's articles like this - deliberately designed to provoke a response - that cause people to distrust the media, and search elsewhere for more objective, reasoned opinions."
- Jonathan Beckett
"Holy crap that made me feel hungry... I need to take the kids into town to buy groceries - maybe this will provide the impetus to do so!"
- Jonathan Beckett
"Good luck David. Although I don't get much chance to watch the various shows any more, I remember the days of Diggnation's rise, and your occasional appearances in the periphery of the show."
- Jonathan Beckett
"I think with any of the major platforms, once you start to hit enough bandwidth, you have to pay to partner with them (and it's a LOT of money)."
- Jonathan Beckett
"I just did a bit of digging - it was a Google Chrome Extension to assist in exporting Facebook contacts, to feed into the invite mechanism at Google+. At the same time they blocked that, Facebook also blocked all the facebook apps to do with exporting contacts."
- Jonathan Beckett
"I can remember it being locked out - it was within days of the beta being opened to the first beta testers. You could hit a button in Google+ to pull in your Facebook contacts, using the API, to invite them into Google+ (which lots of other platforms use) - Facebook blocked Google from doing it."
- Jonathan Beckett
"The thing that struck me about the article this is from, is the comment about leaving the house half an hour early to make the 2 block drive to school in time. People drive a journey of 2 blocks ?!?!?"
- Jonathan Beckett
"It strikes me that the Royal Family have had no real function for a long time, and the public relations staff are becoming increasingly desperate in inventing roles for them. There was an interesting documentary a while ago about George V, who experienced exactly the same issues during his reign, and who's staff set about marketing the entire Royal machine to the public directly."
- Jonathan Beckett
"Oh... we had the same lesson learned OVER and OVER and OVER again with our girls - sometimes more than once in the same day. They did learn... eventually :)"
- Jonathan Beckett
"I like the idea of Drupal, but always wonder if all the hassle is really worth it. I've worked on a couple of business sites using it in the past, and while powerful, the amount of tinkering required was enormous."
- Jonathan Beckett
"I hear you Ian. I used RTM for quite a while - and Toodledo. It's like you say though; unless you form a habit around using a tool, it's useless."
- Jonathan Beckett
"I hear you Ian. I used RTM for quite a while - and Toodledo. It's like you say though; unless you form a habit around using a tool, it's useless."
- Jonathan Beckett