Stuart Duff

New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress

Stuart — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:47:17 +0000

More and more journalists use blogging platforms to write and edit stories, but those text editors are pretty basic: It’s not easy to see what changes others have made to a post. And two people can open the same post, overwriting one another’s edits. The New York Times has solved those problems for online journalists [...]

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5 Free WordPress Responsive Theme Frameworks

Stuart — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:26:10 +0000

Since mid 2011 responsive web design “web designs that automatically scale to fit various sizes of screen resolutions” has seen an explosion in popularity with developers. This has lead some nice wordpress developers to take the time and create responsive wordpress theme frameworks for you to use in your own wordpress designs which can save [...]

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Ted Talks: Clay Shirky – Why SOPA is a bad idea

Stuart — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:50 +0000

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. Clay Shirky believes that new technologies enabling loose collaboration — and taking advantage of “spare” brainpower — [...]

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Husky: Agency & Business Portfolio WordPress Theme ThemeForest

Stuart — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:30:21 +0000

Husky is the right wordpress theme for your creative agency, freelance portfolio or just about any other business looking for a sleek looking website. It can be quickly set up and it’s simple to use, thanks to the theme options, thorough documentation and KiwiStudio’s excellent customer support. Husky comes with features just enough to keep you [...]

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Steve Jobs Passes Away Aged 56 (Stanford Commencement Speech)

Stuart — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:36:58 +0000

This morning europe awoke to the sad news that Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs had passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Steve was a technology visionary that in over a decade changed three separate sectors for the better, Computing, Music distribution & Telecommunications. Famous for his Apple product launch speeches [...]

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WP-Member The WordPress Membership Plugin Sells On Flippa

Stuart — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:39:18 +0000

WP-Member a popular wordpress plugin launched in 2008 which is used to create paid membership sites using the wordpress system as it’s core has recentley been sold on the flippa website marketplace. When browsing the flippa Marketplace website earlier today I stumbled upon a site which I was familar with WP-Member.com that had only just [...]

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Sommerce Shop WordPress E-commerce Theme ThemeForest

Stuart — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:19:50 +0000

Sommerce Shop WordPress E-commerce Theme is a fresh WordPress theme that utilises the powerful JigoShop plugin to create a versatile WordPress powered shop, with unlimited layout options and unlimited skins. Make this theme your own. Mix up content on the homepage with widgets and shortcodes, set the layout full width or boxed style, choose your [...]

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Wil Wheaton: The Entertainment Industry Is To Blame For Piracy

Stuart — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:23:43 +0000

Wil Wheaton discusses why it’s the entertainment industry’s fault that piracy exists in this video taken at Comic-Con 2011. Wil had some problems with DRM protected episodes of Dr Who not playing in Canada after being purchased by himself whilst in the USA and discussed his opinion openly at Comic-Con. One of the personal examples [...]

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DesignBump Moves Away From Drupal Drigg Social News Platform

Stuart — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:15:07 +0000

DesignBump a popular social news website dedicated to the Design Community is going through some big changes at the moment with the largest being moving away from the Drigg set of modules for Drupal upon which DesignBump was originally built. John the owner of DesignBump has recently written a blog post detailing why the changes [...]

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Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Stuart — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:08:59 +0000

As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web. Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality [...]

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