Monthly Archive for May, 2007

The new office, and the height of it’s ceiling

Apparently, ceiling height affects how we think. We’ve just moved to a new office with a much higher ceiling – in fact it’s got a mezzanine so part of the office must have a 20ft high ceiling. Maybe we should have a special “thinking desk” at that end of the office ;)

Calling in the Troll Whisperer

We’ve talked before about the trouble handling the inevitable poison that comes with successful online communities, particularly for businesses who are getting in on the whole community site piece. Cory Doctorow tackles the subject again from a slightly blunter perspective… Worth a read, and worth pointing out again that being prepared for bad behaviour when encouraging User Generated Content (or Authentic Media if you must) is an absolute necessity.

New customer site goes live

We’ve been beavering away pretty hard for the last few weeks on a new site which went live today. Gordon Brown’s campaign web site. One of the most topical sites we’ve ever launched (and linked to from BBC News, too, which always makes for interesting server administration panics). Given the inherently short time scales the team here have really pulled out all the stops to get it live, and even if we say so ourselves we think it’s all looking rather nice…