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I'm Rob Minto, and this is my personal website or blog.
See the [About Rob] page for a bit more about this blog and the story behind the picture.
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Best of this blog
- The internet of 1901
- The lazy journalism of citing Facebook and Twitter
- The gender timebomb of India and China: a stab at the numbers
- Changing the clocks – how the numbers (don’t always) stack up
- The X-factor flaw: the new demographics of pop
- Zuckerberg vs Hirst
- What Sarah Palin has in common with Ludwig Wittgenstein
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Why Gmail’s new look is a usability nightmare
TweetI am absolutely furious with Google’s changes to gmail. I don’t really care about the design. The themes allow you enough scope to personalise. The problem is a technical one that has screwed up usability. It’s fundamental, and is the … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: how quick were the media on the uptake?
TweetThe Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading and sprawling, into different countries and encompassing many issues. But how fast did it take for the news media to catch on? This is possible to quantify using two things – Factiva to … Continue reading