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	<title>Dan Hilton</title>
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	<description>Dan's Technical and sometimes political thoughts...</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Back to the Agency life</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2008/05/18/back-to-the-agency-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the title says, I&#8217;m back being a digital agency technology peep, for MediaClash a consumer publishing and digital agency that also produces a series of city based titles such as Bath Life, Clifton life, etc. I&#8217;m really enjoying it - lots to do, including some improvement of development processes, building a new internal knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarcampLondon3 - inside the googleplex - Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/11/25/barcamplondon3-inside-the-googleplex-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to ignore the &#8216;google effect&#8217; when eating free trail mix and drinking organic apple juice in the plush offices of Google London at BarCampLondon3. It&#8217;s like a weird geek wonderland - like the kind of place thought up by nerds who got beaten up at school. The bountiful acceptance of intelligence as being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarcampLondon3 - inside the googleplex - session 5 - 10 guidelines to better forms</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/11/24/barcamplondon3-inside-the-googleplex-session-5-10-guidelines-to-better-forms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Tell users what to expect
progress indicator
show there is help at hand and other routes to access help phone / chatlive /callback
2) Make users feel secure
verisign logos, padlocks!!!!
3) Keep it short and simple
remove cruft
chunk into logical steps
three columns one for lable, one for element and one for help.
4) Register right away? No way!
standard usernames = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarcampLondon3 - inside the googleplex - session 3 - Norm&#8217;s Law</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/11/24/barcamplondon3-inside-the-googleplex-session-3-norms-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who know where you live&#8221; Damian Conway

Use spaces not tabs.
Code goes no further than column 77.
no-one ever died from too much whitespace.
Separate operators and braces.
Indent by four spaces.
Line up assignments.
Space keywords not functions.
vertical rhythm.
k &#038; R bracketing
one statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarcampLondon3 - inside the googleplex - session 1 - Open Rights Group</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/11/24/barcamplondon3-inside-the-googleplex-session-1-open-rights-group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Technical</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORG - Sesisson one
MP&#8217;s need people to talk to.
electronic voting - It&#8217;s a bad idea, is it?
Observed e-voting at the last election, v. v. bad.
Lot&#8217;s of errors, xss errors in interface, sloppy webservers.
DRM laws passed to ensure that anything with DRM has to say it on he outside.
Internet regulation of YouTube going before commons select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Web boring?</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/10/16/is-the-web-boring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the web boring? A silly title perhaps for a web developer Blog but I&#8217;m starting to lose the love. Less and less is really making me go wow - perhaps that&#8217;s just a sign of getting older and more experience or just perhaps people have stopped doing things for the love and more the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PicoSite is the new microsite</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/08/06/picosite-is-the-new-microsite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/08/06/picosite-is-the-new-microsite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the eponymous growth of so called &#8220;micro&#8221;-blogging services like twitter and Jaiku, so everything these days on the web is either getting smaller or bigger. Recently I had to build a site for my girlfriend, a little site that showcased her work as freelance writer and took a feed from her blog. Now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welsh Assembly&#8217;s website woes</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/05/23/welsh-assemblys-website-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/05/23/welsh-assemblys-website-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 21:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having worked at the Welsh Assembly and had to regularly use their website for preparing briefing, I was interested to see the new site
up and live. However, my shock was at the past record of proceedings. Rather than keeping the (bad) html versions, they distilled all the original word docs into pdfs, a inaccessible format [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New video of me speaking at web2live</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/03/06/new-video-of-me-speaking-at-web2live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really should have posted this earlier but I just haven&#8217;t had time to do this until now. So for all it&#8217;s glory, watch me speak about Web 2.0 at the Tachi-Morris centre in Taunton.
The Video (Flash player 7 required) 

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		<title>Bath meeting of web/ New media people from Underscore</title>
		<link>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/03/05/bath-meeting-of-web-new-media-people-from-underscore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.danhilton.co.uk/2007/03/05/bath-meeting-of-web-new-media-people-from-underscore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re around Bath this Wednesday and find yourself at a loss, why not drop by The Bell on Walcott street at about 7.30pm where a couple of us will be having a geeky pint.
http://upcoming.org/event/160058
It&#8217;d be great to see you there!

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