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Short Domain Names For Sale

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:59:00 GMT

Over the years I’ve amassed a bunch of domain names that I planned to build something with or were just too good a bargain to miss. It’s time for a clear out so I am offering these three and four character domain names for sale.

Short domains are great for domain investors as the number of available character combinations is small and demand is constantly rising, or you could use one of these domains to build your own URL shortener for microblogging services like twitter.

They are all currently parked at sedo and registered with hosts that allow free transfer (like name.com, GoDaddy, etc.) Check the WhoIs data for the full details, including domain age and expiry date.

If a domain catches your eye, then contact me to make an offer, or you can arrange the sale through sedo if you prefer.

Three Character Domain Names

1g1.org

jc7.net

Four Character Domain Names

00gb.com

00mb.com

1kis.com

1xel.com

4dac.com

7cvs.com

7kia.com

ae02.com

dab3.com

dr4g.com

hcs5.com

lez3.com

ses7.com

ssg0.com

If this sale is a success, I’ve got some more domains that I might put on sale. The offer is for the domain name only, no website or email. Payment via PayPal or escrow.com for large sums.

It’s first-come, first-served so get your offer in quickly!

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Blog Housekeeping

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:41:00 GMT

I’ve been guilty of neglecting the site for the past couple of months so I’m taking a few hours to do a little housekeeping. I noticed quite a few problems over the last week or two:

My Twitter profile search monkey application had broken, either due to a change in Twitter’s markup or a tweak to Yahoo Search Monkey.
The sample recipe search had problems, thanks to my host switching the default to PHP 4 (from PHP 5).
Yahoo deleted the recursive pipe that I was using for twitter map widget which meant that markers weren’t showing up properly.
The blog comment form stopped working. Not sure what caused this, something to do with FCKeditor and browser compatibility, I think.
I was getting a lot of spam comments, so a few tweaks were made to confuse the spambots.

All these problems should now be fixed but please let me know if they recurr or if you find any other issues.

I recently relaunched my personal site too, which is now a Web 2.0 lifestream so head on over and check it out.

There is some great content in the pipeline for the next few weeks too, including a new look at hSlices, so don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to get new posts the moment they are published.

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How to Make A Recipe Search With Yahoo BOSS And PHP

Sun, 31 May 2009 08:11:00 GMT

Recipe search engines are all then rage these days, with a new example cropping up every week. This in-depth tutorial will show you how to make your own and provides working code for you to download.

We’ll be using Yahoo’s BOSS to do the hard work for us, so the first thing you need to do is sign up for a Yahoo account, if you don’t have one already.

Yahoo BOSS is a great service that allows you to use their search engine and brand the results however you like. It is completely free for most uses, with fees only applying if you use it more than 10,000 times per day.

Get A Yahoo BOSS Application ID

This is pretty straightforward. Fill in the form here and make a note of the long, hexadecimal App ID that gets spat out afterwards. Here is an example of how to fill out the form:

We’ll be using BOSS to provide search results across a range of recipe sites, so we don’t need to do anything difficult (like creating a data service). It’s just like entering a site: operator into the normal Yahoo search.

I’ve chosen these sites to search, but you can easily modify the script to supply your own choices:

Build A Search Front-End

Next, we need a web front-end to accept user input and call the BOSS service and then display the results. There’s some ready made PHP code for you to download here which we’ll go through to get a thorough understanding of just what is going on.

The code performs the following actions:



Display a header and search form
Check if the form has been filled and submitted, if it has:

Send the query to our BOSS service
Parse the reply from BOSS
If there were some search results

Display the search results


Else

Print “No results found”




That’s it!

Note: I’m going to assume that the reader is familiar with basic HTML and PHP code. If you’re new to this sort of stuff, there are some great tutorials here and here.

The results are output pretty much unstyled so you should put your HTML skills to work on prettifying the presentation.

So, on to the code...

Display A Header & Search Form

The header will extract and sanitise any input variables, then output a HTML header.

Note: You need to replace YOUR_APP_ID with the Yahoo BOSS application ID you got at the beginning of this tutorial.

The search form is quite straight forward, see this tutorial on HTML forms if you’re unsure of what is going on here.

Was The Form Filled Previously?

We just need to check for the presence of the search terms:

Send The Query To BOSS

It is a simple HTTP GET so PHP’s file_get_contents() will work (unless your host has disabled it, in which case read this for a work around).

The script builds a URL using our application ID, list of sites to search and the query string. This URL returns the results in JSON, which is easy to parse into a PHP structure.

Did We Get Some Results?

Error checking is important - we don’t want to confuse users if there was a problem - so we’ll check the output carefully. We must also check whether any results were found.

Loop Through The Results And Display Them

This is pretty easy but I’ve not styled the output in any way. There are CSS classes in the output though, so you could just add your own external stylesheet to the header.

Try It Out And Download The Script

You can see my script in action here and the source is available for download here.

When you try it, you’ll see that it is very rough but it should provide a reasonable foundation for you to build something upon. Here are some suggestions for improvement:

Style everything - add a CSS stylesheet and make the output pretty
Add some analytics - find out what your users are searching for
Show recent searches - if you want to dive into the code, you could show the last ten searches by recording them in a database
Display some adverts - make a bit of cash
Add an OpenSearch plug-in - maybe even break out the AJAX and provide search suggestions

I hope you find this useful, both as inspiration for building a recipe search and an introduction to the power of Yahoo BOSS. If you have any questions or suggestions then please leave a comment and don’t forget to subscribe to the feed for more articles like this.

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Ten Useful Wolfram|Alpha Searches

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:22:00 GMT

So the Wolfram|Alpha engine launched last weekend to a great deal of fanfare, but the reactions from blogs and the twitterverse show that a lot of people just don’t get it.

This is not surprising, we’ve been conditioned by Google et al to type in a phrase and expect ten blue links, so when you first accessed the Wolfram|Alpha input box, what did you type? Your name? A natural language question?

I bet the answer to your first query was the disappointing:

Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.

That’s because Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine - it’s a knowledge inference engine and so many people struggle to get the best out of it. It deals with facts, maths and statistics and it deals with them very well.

In this post, I’ll show you ten useful queries that should build the right kind of mindset and encourage you to experiment with the tool a bit further.

1. Stock Comparisons

How about a nice chart of Microsoft versus Google?

2. Complex Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram wrote the excellent Mathematica program so you can bet that Wolfram|Alpha will kick ass at maths.

It can solve quadratic equations and differentiate them, and even plot fractals.

3. Date Manipulation

What is the date of the first Tuesday in May, next year?

Most of us would flick through a calendar to answer a question like this, but Wolfram|Alpha can save us time:

It’s the 4th!

4. Analyse Sports Statistics

Despite knowing nothing about baseball, I can check the histories of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. That’s probably useful to someone less geeky than me.

5. Find Out Flight Times

Enter two city names to see the distance between them and the average flight time. Here is London to New York.

6. Show Movie Casts

Not as detailed as IMDB but pretty handy all the same.

7. View Currency Fluctuations

Here is a query of definite use to me right now - the dollar vs the UK pound.

8. Show Website Traffic Estimates

Using Alexa traffic data, Wolfram estimates that apple.com receives 11,111 visits per minute.

9. Compare Chemical Compounds

Very useful for chemistry homework, here’s Methanol compared with Ethanol.

10. Calculate Your Mortgage Payments In Plain English

Who hasn’t wanted to cut through the financial gibberish and get to the bottom line quickly and easily.

Whilst researching this post, I hit a few limitations of the Wolfram|Alpha engine (and user interface) - in particular a bias towards placenames, not great when there are places like Dollar in Scotland and Pound in Wisconsin - but a bit of experimentation usually brings you to the correct syntax.

In all, I think Wolfram Alpha has been a successful launch and I look forward to seeing just what future improvements are in store. In the medium term, I hope that the API is extended to allow third party developers to use the inference engine to process their own data - that would be very cool.

Have you found any interesting queries that showcase Wolfram|Alpha’s engine? Leave a comment.

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I Love Delicious Because It’s Selfish

Tue, 12 May 2009 07:19:00 GMT

This post came about after a short Twitter exchange with DeWitt Clinton (he’s @dewitt on Twitter). He asked:

Where do you find new interesting sites/memes *before* they hit digg, popurls, techmeme, reddit, etc? The more tech flavored the better.

I answered that I have a great network on delicious.com that provides me with that kind of thing. His reply got me thinking:

I’ve been treating delicious as write-only for years

This is exactly why del.icio.us is so powerful - the data that people enter is for their own use!

Delicious Is Anti-Social Bookmarking

We delicious users all store bookmarks (and colour palettes) for our own reference. Unlike Digg, Mixx, Reddit et al we’re not adding bookmarks to send traffic or become a top user or hit the front page or stimulate discussion. There’s little SEO, marketing or self-promotional value to being a popular delicious user (the front page sends a lot of traffic but that’s not the same as being a popular user).

We are being selfish and it’s powerful.

It’s powerful because it’s also open. If can identify a thought-leader in a given and he has a delicious account, I can see which sites he thinks are important enough to save for later reference.

This is very similar to my twitter philosophy of “follow interesting people” (stolen, I think, from Robert Scoble).

How To Build Your Delicious Network

I’ve got around forty people in my network right now, each one is active and interesting so I get about thirty to fifty interesting new links sent to me every day. Here’s how I found those people:

Pick subjects of interest - check your top ten tags if you’re not sure
Find out who the thought leaders are in each area. You probably know who they are already, but you can always find more. Use tools like:
- Google blog search
- Twitter - search for hashtags and just ask people
- FriendFeed
- Academic papers
You’ll find that a lot of people use the same username on all their Web 2.0 sites so check if they have a delicious account
If their delicious username isn’t obvious, try FriendFeed. That has links to a person’s delicious account under their list of services
Check their blog - lots of people automatically post their bookmarks every week using a Wordpress plugin
Try SocialWhoIs
When you have found their delicious profile, click the “Add to my network” link and then click “Yes” to confirm - I always forget to confirm

Build up a good sized network and check back periodically for new links (the Delicious Firefox plugin will highlight the network icon in the status bar if you have unread links in your network).

Enjoy - if you have geeky interests you can find my delicious profile here but only add me if you find my links interesting!

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Yahoo Search Monkey App For Twitter Profiles

Tue, 05 May 2009 05:56:00 GMT

I’ve been meaning to get to grips with Yahoo’s Search Monkey technology for a while but put it off because the documentation wasn’t great for beginners. Then I discovered this excellent resource on a Google Code wiki and had a few hours spare, so I got stuck in.

The result is a Search Monkey application that enhances the Yahoo search results with a Twitter user’s profile information when their profile appears as a result of your search:

What Is Yahoo Search Monkey?

Search Monkey is Yahoo’s technology that allows developers and website owners to add widgets to a set of search results. Yahoo have really stolen a march on Google with this enhancement and hopefully, their open, developer-oriented approach will give them a competitive edge over the Big G.

Developers cannot force their Search Monkey applications on users, instead a user chooses to enhance his/her results by choosing applications from a gallery of available enhancements or by going to the application’s homepage. If the user is logged in Yahoo, they can click the add button to enhance their Yahoo SERPs:

SEO Aside: User choice in the enhanced SERPs is a pretty powerful differentiation from Google’s offering. A heavy social media user would choose an entirely different set of enhancements to an online shopper.

Building A Search Monkey App

There are two aspects to every Search Monkey app - the data and the presentation.

The data aspect provides the extra information that is used to enhance the SERPs. This can be gleaned by scraping the page or through a third-party API. For my application, I chose to scrape the Twitter profile page for the user’s:

Display name
Avatar
Follower count
Following count

Yahoo’s page scraping is pretty sweet - the page gets put through HTML Tidy to fix any validation issues and then it runs an XSL Transform to grab the data you want.

XSLT is not the easiest technology to understand, but most pages can be scraped with very simple transforms. One aspect that threw me at first, is that HTML Tidy makes all element tags uppercase, so make sure your XSLT uses capitals in the XPath declarations.

Want To Try It Out?

Trying out my application is easy, just follow these instructions:

Log in to your Yahoo account (or sign up if you don’t have one yet)
Head over to the application’s homepage, by clicking this link
Click the “Add” to add the app to your search results
Test it out by searching Yahoo for a Twitter username and look for the little bird icon below the Twitter profile page in the search results
Click the down arrow to show extra information

I hope you like it. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below, or if you have an idea for a Search Monkey application, leave a comment and maybe I’ll code it up for you.

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How To Export An RSS Feed From Google Spreadsheets

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:31:00 GMT

I’m a huge fan of RSS feeds and often use them to wire together simple mashups or power more complex web programs. Most online applications need some configuration data, such as a list of data sources, users, locations or timestamps and I don’t like to hard-code these into my programs. It’s much better to use a datastore for configuration information like this.

When building a mashup of data and services stored in the cloud, the configuration data should be stored (and edited) online too. You can collaborate with others and use delicious.com as database of URLs, as described by Jon Udell, but if you want a nice online form for your configuration data, Google Spreadsheets is the way to go.

It is easy to get data into the spreadsheet by publishing a form, but how to get an RSS feed out of the Google Spreadsheet? It’s not obvious, but Google Documents provides this functionality too. Follow these instructions to publish your spreadsheet as an RSS feed:

Create your spreadsheet and save it, as normal
Click the big blue “Share” button and choose “Publish as a web page”
After publishing, the popup window will show a “Subscribe” link. This is the URL of your RSS feed
Tick the option to automatically republish as changes are made. There is also an option to choose a specific sheet from your document

So there we have it. You can create a nice form to populate a Google Spreadsheet with data, then publish an RSS feed and use it in your mashups.

If you like RSS feeds, don’t forget to sign up to the MMMeeja RSS feed.

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SEO for Internet Applications

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:06:00 GMT

I was reading SearchEngineLand’s round up of a SEO & SEM Q & A twitter session by Danny Sullivan and one of the questions caught my attention. EdWords asked:

How would you do SEO for a web page which is an application (= javascript, images & practically no content)?

Danny’s answer was good but kind of constrained by Twitter’s 140 character limit:

if page is more an application using javascript than HTML content, find way to add some text and also look to build links

I think it’s worth looking into this issue a little deeper, starting with a look at how the top Internet Applications manage their SEO.

The Top Internet Applications

IAs are most often characterised by highly interactive, javascript or Flash based user interfaces that are very different to the average blog’s pages of text. Security concerns often mean that they are closed to search engines so even if GoogleBot can understand more than HTML, these applications should be considered black boxes.

Let’s take a look at a few top IAs (chosen through an informal survey around the office and on Twitter) and see how they do their SEO. I’ve chosen these two types to look into:

Free

Free RIAs like webmail and RSS readers. I’ll be looking at the following:

GMail - arguably the most successful IA, getting more traffic than YouTube
Google Reader
ColourLovers - a great application for colour palette sharing

Paid/Freemium

Business users are happy to pay for premium applications suited to them, like:

SalesForce.com - online CRM
Basecamp - 37 Signals’ project management application
Zoho - online competitor to Microsoft Office

How Do They Perform?

Let’s see how well these RIAs perform in a google.com search for appropriate terms (personalized search turned off, universal search results ignored):

Site	Term	Position
GMail	email	1
Google Reader	rss reader	3
ColourLovers	colour palette	2
Salesforce.com	crm	5
Basecamp	project management	16
Zoho	word processor	4

These are all very competitive, generic terms and the applications did well, with all except Basecamp hitting the first page of Google. Should we measure the success of a Google-owned application according to how well it ranks in the Google search engine? I don’t know if there is bias there, but...

SEO Techniques For RIAs

We’ll look at each application in more detail and see which SEO techniques they’ve applied.

GMail

Domain: mail.google.com - A subdomain of Google’s PR10 main domain with a link from the homepage. Few IA developers will be in this privileged position.

Homepage: Javascript heavy and table-based layout with four sentences of text - not great on-page SEO. Has links to About and What’s New pages which are better optimised.

Public pages: In addition to the About and What’s New pages mentioned above, GMail has a large set of help pages. These are written in a quite technical style (very different to the friendly prose on their blog) and will help with targetting long tail queries. The help pages are also translated into several langauges, causing Yahoo Site Explorer to show over 70,000 indexed pages.

Inlinks: Approx 480,000(!) Many of which are from Google’s other properties, think how many ccTLDs Google owns.

Blog: gmailblog.blogspot.com - On yet another Google-owned domain, this is a good source of links to their help pages.

Google Reader

URL: google.com/reader - A subdirectory of the main search page which also benefits from a link, this is Google leveraging the power of their most powerful page again.

Homepage: Again, javascript heavy and table-based layout with little text. Has a link to a set of Tour pages which also have poor on-page SEO.

Public pages: As with GMail, Google Reader makes good use of its help pages. Mobile and iPhone versions of the homepage show up in the SERPs but since the homepage is so sparse there are not likely to be duplicate content issues.

Inlinks: Approx 31,000 from a wide variety of sources. Technical authority (TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb et al.) sites love Google Reader and it shows in their link profile.

Blog: googlereader.blogspot.com - As with GMail, a blogspot blog is used for promotion and deep links to help pages.

ColourLovers

Domain: colourlovers.com - Five year old domain containing a keyword - a good solid domain name for SEO.

Homepage: Straight into the meat of the application, with lots of palettes and patterns shown on the homepage. A ton of links too (170+) but there is a good chunk of introductory at the top right.

Public pages: Most of the site is public and it makes great use of user-generated content. Each palette and pattern has its own page which allows comments. There is a forum too, with links to the most recent discussions shown on the site footer. All this UGC means that Yahoo Site Explorer lists 5.7 million indexed pages.

Inlinks: Approx 9,000 from a variety of designers and bloggers. ColourLovers also made Time Magazine’s top 50 websites of 2008 (as well as winning other awards) which is definitely going to help that Google juice flow.

Blog: colourlovers.com/blog - In a subdirectory of the main site, the blog is often used to link to the profiles of prolific site members, great motivation for them but the site might be missing out on some long tail queries by not leveraging their blog for how-to posts and social media linkbait.

Salesforce.com

Domain: salesforce.com - An eleven year-old domain containing a related keyword. You can start to see why domainers expect such high prices.

Homepage: There is a high code to content ratio here but the homepage makes good use of excerpts from other pages, kind of like a blog’s front page.

Public pages: There are a lot of sales pages aimed at different types of user (sysadmins, sales staff, managers etc) and they are all translated into a number of different languages. There are also subdomains for company blogs and customer outreach - great for long tail and internal linkage.

Inlinks: Approx 167,000 from a good variety of top sites (apple.com, techcrunch etc.) but if you include the salesforce.com subdomains, the number of inlinks jumps to 285,000. Internal linking FTW!

Blog: blogs.salesforce.com - Lots of different blogs on this subdomain, in keeping with the company’s practice of tailoring content to different types of customer.

Basecamp

Domain: basecamphq.com - No keywords in this five year old domain.

Homepage: Pretty good on-page optimisation here: correct use of heading elements and a decent amount of text. Links to sales and help pages, blog posts and even Twitter. There are URL canonicalisation issues though, no redirect from www.basecamphq.com to basecamphq.com. URL parameters indicating referring sites also appear in Yahoo Site Explorer (not Google SERPs though, so they’ve probably fixed that through Webmaster tools).

Public pages: The URLs with referrer parameters make it difficult to see exactly how many unique pages are indexed (there is no XML sitemap either). There are far fewer public pages on this domain than for any of the other RIAs examined.

Inlinks: About 200,000 inlinks from two main sources: the 37 Signals (the owners of Basecamp) network and advertising. Basecamp seem to have a very popular affiliate program, which results in a lot of dofollow sitewide links on blogs.

Blog: productblog.37signals.com - 37 Signals have a single blog that covers all of their products (as well as the popular Signal vs Noise). This is a pretty good strategy for gaining and controlling offsite links.

Zoho

Domain: zoho.com - Like Basecamp, there are no key words in their domain, which is five years old. Each of their tools has its own separate domain, with a sales page.

Homepage: No canonicalisation issues here, but the homepage is rather devoid of text. It shows a list of links to their nineteen office applications (each app is on a different subdomain). There are just three short exceprts from press coverage right at the bottom of the page. The oage uses tables for layout too.

Public pages: The subdomains for each of the tools are much better optimised, with excerpts of sales pages linking back to the main domain. I am undecided about the significance of this last sentence, maybe it just means that the homepage is poorly constructed, add a comment if you’ve got any insights. There are about 500 pages listed in Yahoo Site Explorer, although some are duplicates caused by advert referrer tracking parameters.

Inlinks: About 950,000(!) inlinks. Zoho got a huge amount of love during the Web 2.0 boom, won many awards and featured in a lot of people’s Top X Web 2.0 sites lists.

Blog: blogs.zoho.com is used to build community and promote wiki pages.

Best Practices

Phew, that’s a lot of information to get through, still reading?

When we look at the successful and not so good SEO aspects of the listed applications, some patterns emerge...

Most people will link to your front page

Put some good, keyword laden text on it. Testimonials, press cuttings, blog excerpts - the front page is your sales page. So don’t dive straight into your application, have an introduction and a big call to action button.

Consider making the front page

Put your online help on the same domain as your application

Great for long-tail technical queries and link back to your front page with targetted anchor text.

Blog on a subdomain or different domain

Send link juice to your help pages whenever a new feature is announced. This can help you own more results on the first page of the SERPs too.

User generated content = lots of content

Forums, community help, user blogs - did I mention long-tail queries before?

Give your customers a voice on your website, what they are talking about is your product!

Get links from authority sites

Put out press releases and be very nice to journalists and A-list bloggers. A new startup cannot compete with sites that have half a million backlinks, but focus on quality not quantity.

On Page SEO

All but ignored by the big players, but if you are building from scratch then at least ditch the tables!.

Get links through advertising and affiliate programmes

A good affiliate programme attracts a lot of sitewide links from a wide variety of sites, which is great for your link profile. Of course programme participants should nofollow their links but if you provide the link text for them to paste into the siderbar, you don’t have to include the tag.

Fix any canonicalisation issues

This should be SEO 101. Pay attention to your affiliate tracking.

Most of these recommendations apply just as well to any website not just RIAs but to answer @EdWords’ original question of “How do you SEO a web page with no content?”, don’t. Make a web site with lots of content and SEO that!

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Will April Fools Day Be Cancelled Next Year?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:17:00 GMT

On the day of the year when it seems like every site on the internet tries to fool its readership, posting false statements to the internet has been officially banned by government leaders. Heads of the G20 nations meeting in London today issued a short but grave statement decrying frivolity during these dire economic times and announcing a global internet censorship program.

During the press conference, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Germany’s Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and President Hu Yoo of China stated that in future every internet post must be held to the highest standards of factual probity.

An international body will be formed to vet every file, blog post, page and comment uploaded to the internet. Formed under the auspices of the United Nations, the body will be known as the International Standard for Truth In Network Communications and will be led a chairman appointed by treaty signatories. Former Vietnamese leader, Saloth Sar has been tipped by insiders to head the organisation.

Successfully pulling off an excellent early April Fools prank yesterday, Smashing Magazine claimed that IE 8 might actually be useful. This is thought to be the last ever hoax to be perpetrated through the internet and the world’s police forces are poised to arrest any merrymakers that might be tempted to ignore the ruling today.

Here is a video of the full press briefing at the G20 summit - check out the disbelief in the reporters’ voices at the end!

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Word Cloud

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:21:00 GMT

Here’s a fun thing - a word cloud of my latest blog post entries, courtesy of Wordle.

It’s a cool way of visualising what I’m actually talking about on here. Hat tip to Dazzlin Donna for the inspiration.

Twitter features quite prominently, what do you think - should I post less about Twitter? More? Leave a comment.

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