Here’s a viral video made by ActionAid about why we should all buy fairtrade food and encourage supermarkets to make sure their suppliers pay their workers fairly.  Without mincing their words: Video: ActionAid stick it to Tesco The point of the campaign is to pressure the UK Government into setting up a watchdog to monitor…

I am very pleased to announce the launch of the new Open Up website at http://www.open-up.org.uk which Twentyfirst built for Mental Health Media, project managed by me!  This site is the first online networking community for professionals working against mental health discrimination. As part of the project, Mental Health Media receives training in community management and…

A piece of my art is in an auction tomorrow (Sunday 16th November) in Bergen, Norway, for street paper charity Megafon.  Check it out if you’re about that way… not sure how many people who read my blog will be able to go! Details here, but in Norwegian!

Last night I went to my first London Girl Geek Dinner. The first talk by Dr Elisabeth Kelan involved lots of statistics from her research about gender and working in teams, with the main point being that a 50:50 split works best. She was criticised by someone in the audience that her statistics didn’t show…

I just had a major revelation.  The CMYK value for pure black ink, 0.0.0.100, 100% black, K, is NOT, I repeat, NOT the same as the hexadecimal pure black value of #000000 !  I can’t believe I didn’t know this before.  But thinking about it – it makes sense.  Pure K, Key, Black, is real-life…

Today I wanted to log in to my 43Things account so I could show my new colleagues what the site was all about, but was told my username or password were incorrect.  So I followed the ‘forgot username’ procedure and 43Things emailed me ‘bethgranter’ as my username to my registered email account at myemail@somewhere.com.  Then…

Hello!  I did a quick review about Get Satisfaction, the online user support / customer service website over on my work blog for the SPLASH project… some people who usually read this blog might find that post interesting.

When you accept a friend request on Facebook, you’re given the option to add detail about how you know that person. You used to be able to add ‘We hooked up’ here. Today I discovered that this option is missing: Panicking that my whole list of hookups would have disappeared from Facebook, I rushed over…

And here’s another example of a failed sign up dialogue in terms of identity politics and gender diversity: Radio buttons? With only two options and I have to choose one? And the default is Male? So I’m forced to declare myself as one or the other. How rubbish. Here’s a couple of suggestions for improvement:…