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Shocking

12th March 2004

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Via WaSP. When the 13th International World Wide Web Conference gets it this badly wrong it’s obvious that something about our industry is fundamentally broken.

And with that note, I’m off to SXSW.

Posted 12th March 2004 at 3:07 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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