Tag: reddit

Alexis Onhanian, co-founder of Reddit: some questions, some answers.

23 September 2013

I asked Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the reddit, several (hopefully interesting) questions during one of his relatively frequent AMA's (Q&A sessions). Alexis was the largely nontechnical guy who built redddit over a summer during the first Y Combinator (YC) programme, with his technical colleague Steve Huffman, and later sold it to Conde Nast (though he […]

Going viral: Luck of the draw

9 February 2013

A while ago I blogged about how I had "discovered" a viral video. I recently had an experience of just how life is serendipitous. Ian / FollowTheFoot released a video which I thought was hilarious, and clearly worthy of more eyeballs, so I posted it to reddit to /r/videos and /r/travel. Despite a few views […]

Reddit and @wossy

4 February 2013

A while ago, I was reading slowly over reddit, when I saw somewhat moaning about a thread on a subreddit called /r/BritishProblems where someone had posted someone had posted something complaining about TV presenter Jonathan Ross, and Jonathan Ross had, himself, using his handle "wossy", turned up to debunk it. After verifying that, it was, […]

Does CBS "get" digital? CNET is dead. Last.fm is killing itself. Is it too late to turn the tide?

15 January 2013

CBS, the media conglomerate, are verging on irritating me. They've effectively just killed CNET through a disastrous corporate decision, effectively killing the impartiality of the organisation. When high profile journalists quit, citing that their impartiality has been called into question, and the Editor-in-chief explains the incident in an statement using the line: I could have […]

I accidentally 'discovered' a viral video…

20 August 2012

This sounds quite pretentious, mainly because claiming you watched something "before it was famous" is incredibly hipster, but this isn't meant to be. I just want to tell you a story… A few weeks ago I was browsing, /r/travel on reddit and I came across this cute video a guy had made about travelling south east […]

My Reddit Secret Santa is awesome

15 February 2012

Last year, I took part in the record breaking worldwide Secret Santa organised by the Reddit community. I was one of 37,000 people who was given the details of a complete stranger to send a gift to, and at the same time, I received a gift from someone who'd been given my details. Usually, one […]

DnB + Ceilidh = Doubly Awesome :: Monster Ceilidh Band

12 February 2012

One thing that I don't talk about that much is my tendency to fall in love with fusions of traditional and contemporary. Take something awesome and traditional. Mix it with something awesome and contemporary. The result will be doubly awesome! This post is about a band who certainly seem to be taking the "let's just […]

Building reddit-frontpage-proof websites?

7 February 2012

Rick Falkvinge's website Falkvinge.net recently frontpaged reddit. Actually, in the default setup, he had three articles, (#16, #22, #24), which, as he says, is a record for him. Why is this a big deal? Well with reddit being Alexa-ranked 133 and getting about 8.7 million visitors every day, being on the front page 3 times […]

Problem: How long will it take to fix it?

5 February 2012

As a geek, one generally gets good at fixing things. An interesting thing about technology, as opposed to say, carpentry, is that generally it's very very small things that have significant implications. Frequently you spend a lot more time looking for the problem than you do actually implementing the solution. Example: The symptoms: your website […]

Reddit for giving. Reddit for good.

27 January 2012

Over the last couple of weeks we've heard again and again that the Internet is the scouge of our cultural industries, wrecking our economies and upsetting the neighbours. Of course, none of this is true, but I thought it might be worthwhile if I highlighted what I feel is a growing trend in people's behaviour […]

The Scrollwheel (for desktop support heros)

7 September 2011

A while ago I saw this fantastic comic on reddit about unwilling tech support heros. Turns out someone has made an animation of it: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9DLxDtPtc Non-techies, sometimes, it might be good to ask one of your techie friends if there's anything you can do that would make your computer use more efficient. 🙂 Having seen […]