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Hello and welcome to www.matthewwittering.co.uk. As you may have guessed, I am Matthew Wittering and this is my personal website. You will find information about me and blog posts covering topics which interest me. Hopefully by reading the about page you will find out more about me and what drives my interests in the Internet. Below you will also find recent articles.

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The Virtual Revolution: 1 - The Great Levelling?

The Internet has in the last 20 years facilitated an explosive growth in technical capabilities and access to knowledge. The web continues to shape us in ways we fail to recognise. For example we are increasingly divulging personal details to social networking sites without consideration for how it will be used. The Internet gives everyone who desire it, the proverbial soapbox. Online you may broadcast your opinions to far reaching corners of the globe.

Published: 7th February 2010 - Continue reading »

The Virtual Revolution

On the Saturday 30th January the first episode of The Virtual Revolution started on BBC 2 in the United Kingdom. The series covers the development of the Internet over the last 20 years. Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how the Internet has reshaped our lives. Episode 1 starts with how by charting the rise of blogs, Wikipedia, and YouTube and presents the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides of the information culture.

Published: 6th February 2010 - Continue reading »

Internationalization and Localization: 14 - Unicode adoption

When André Schappo published this link on Twitter I was really encouraged to read about the positive uptake with Unicode (UTF-8). Nearing 50% of the web has been encoded using UTF-8 and therefore the Unicode character-set.

Published: 1st February 2010 - Continue reading »

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Recent articles:

The Virtual Revolution: 1 - The Great Levelling?

The Virtual Revolution

Internationalization and Localization: 14 - Unicode adoption

A brief introduction