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My interview, about Wikipedia, with Jamillah Knowles, for BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘Outriders’
Andy Mabbett was interviewed, about Wikipedia, by Jamillah Knowles, for BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘Outriders’. Continue reading
Posted in about me, Wikipedia
Tagged Andy Mabbett, bbc, Jamillah Knowles, jemimah_knight, Outriders, pigsonthewing, QRpedia, Radio 5 Live, Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, The King of Rome, twitter:user=jemimah_knight, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing, wikipedia, Wikipedian in Residence
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Don’t link to my Twitter profile!
Andy Mabbett wants people to link to his website, not (just), his Twitter profile Continue reading
Posted in about me, ideas, social media, Twitter, web standards
Tagged Andy Mabbett, blogging, facebook, google, Google juice, linkedin, linking, optimisation, PageRank, pigsonthewing, search, SEO, twitter, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing
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HashMash: My invention of a new hashtag search tool
Andy Mabbett has invented a new tool for searching for related hashtags. Simon Painter has developed it. Continue reading
Portrait with Brompton Bike
Portraits of Andy Mabbett, part of the Birmingham Cyclists project by Pete, aka Dividenthal. Continue reading
Posted in about me, Birmingham, photography
Tagged bike, Birmingham, Brompton, cycling, Dividenthal, MabsBrompton, pigsonthewing, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing
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Fixing Facebook’s Microformats (at their request)
Facebook’s hCalendar microformats have the wrong timezones. They asked me to help fix them. Here’s how. Continue reading
Proposal: generate KML from postcodes in Twitter messages
It would be cool if someone with the necessary skills and bandwidth could provide a service which takes a Twitter search (say, for a hashtag), extracts from it valid UK postcodes, and returns a corresponding KML file, which can then be passed to other services, like Google Maps. Continue reading
Posted in ideas, social media, web standards
Tagged #twitter:status=22993533493313536, Ben Marsh, geocoding, geotagging, google maps, hack, hacking, hashtags, KML, mapping, mashup, postcode, Shooting Star, twitter, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing, UKSnow
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Triple-tag references to Twitter posts
Further to my post about a protocol for Twitter posts, you can also triple-tag blog posts, Flickr images and similar web utterances, which refer to a specific twitter post (or status) like this: twitter:status=1975532392 – and this post is tagged … Continue reading