Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • Find web references to the page you’re looking at

    I thought I’d share two small bookmarklets I’ve been using to find references for a page I’m looking at: Web references: page Web references: site To use them, drag each link to your browser toolbar. This will create a couple of buttons that you can click when you want to find more information about whatever…

  • Notes from a working group

    Standards geek: “I think we need to establish a standard for representing poetry on the Internet. I’ve drawn up this draft which encapsulates stanzas inside an Atom feed. It’s pretty simple; the spec fits on a page, so it should be easy to implement.” Visual poet: “That’s pretty cool, but what about visual poetry? You…

  • Ben’s Big Gig

    North Oxford is the wealthiest part of a wealthy city, where BMWs sit in gravel driveways and wine bars nestle amongst delicatessens and stylish cafes; a part of the city I always yearned to belong to as a kid, but never quite did. It was where I went to school, and where we had our…

  • Twitter: lessons on getting your web app out there

    Twitter is the darling of the tech scene, much as Facebook was a couple of years ago and Flickr and MySpace before that. Many would probably argue that it’s had more attention than it deserves: all it does is let you post, share and read 140-character messages. Despite this, there’s been more talk about why…