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Inside Guardian.co.uk: Paul Carvill exposes the dark corners of guardian.co.uk

Saturday, 23 August 2008, 17:12

How to manipulate Guardian.co.uk URLs to combine categories and find very specific types of content…

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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Back to full-time employment

Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:09

"I’ll be joining [Guardian News & Media] full time (well, four days a week) in mid-October as a software architect, collaborating with their development team on some ambitious API projects. The Guardian have access to a lot of interesting data and I can’t wait to get stuck in to it."

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MediaGuardian: Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media

Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:08

"Former Yahoo and Lawrence Journal World developer Simon Willison has been recruited by Guardian News & Media as a software architect, it was announced today."

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 Thursday, 10 July 2008, 22:21 Comments

"Some 30 Tribune editorial employees have been appointed … to reimagine their paper. These committees take seriously the idea of giving quality some room to breathe, and they’re looking hard at Britain’s Guardian for inspiration."

 Saturday, 5 July 2008, 10:01 Comments

The BBC, Guardian and New York Times all have landing pages based on specific topics. So does any blog that takes its tagging seriously. An SEO no-brainer. So why doesn’t everybody do it?

 Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 05:56 Comments

Matt Wardman: "Anybody who thinks that any web traffic measuring process (even the “gold standard” ABCe version) can meaningfully distinguish differences between competing websites of well under 1% has not done their homework."

 Sunday, 29 June 2008, 18:01 Comments

Strangely, the IoS neglects to [barely] mention[s] the Independent's debut figure in a review of the ABCes.

 Friday, 20 June 2008, 21:40 Comments

"Georgina [Henry] and I talked a lot about HuffPost and the Guardian sharing more of our content with each other, and we came up with some crossposting ideas we’ll be implementing soon."

 Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 18:07 Comments

Shane Richmond hits back at recent Guardian stories criticising MyTelegraph users’ views.

 Monday, 5 May 2008, 09:47 Comments

Stephen Glover on the Editorial Intelligence survey on columnist influence: "[T]his is a somewhat incestuous exercise, with like-minded people drawn from a narrow circle, patting one another on the back." Amen.

 Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 09:05 Comments

Mark Porter on reactions to the Guardian.co.uk Sport section: "People form very intimate relationships with newspapers, magazines and websites, and you have to redesign them with an awareness that change can be destabilising."

 Saturday, 26 April 2008, 07:51 Comments

Helen Pidd: "my first piece of advice to any budding journalist – produce one, brilliant, shameless article that gets everyone talking."

 Thursday, 10 April 2008, 13:40 Comments

Alex Hawkes of Accountacy Age has been covering the Guardian-Tesco libel case from another perspective…

 Saturday, 29 March 2008, 09:46 Comments

"Guardian News & Media is looking to enroll all 800 of its staff journalists on a voluntary ‘digital awareness programme’ ahead of the publisher’s move to a new 24/7 integrated newsroom this autumn."

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