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Snow way!

Written by Matt B · first published 28/11/2010

Please excuse the bad pun but I thought I would just inform the terminally shy that it is snowing here in Thanet. Yeah the white stuff is falling for the second time this year. It looks thick and likely to stay for a while.

Be careful out there you guys and gals.

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Traffic Lights at the clock tower - again?

Written by Matt B · first published 23/11/2010

Plans to transform Margate seafront include removing the roundabout at the clock tower and replacing it with Traffic lights.

Now correct me if I am wrong at all but did we not try this already? It did not work last time so why might it work this time?

PLANS to transform Margate seafront into a pedestrian's paradise will be unveiled on Thursday.

PLANS to transform Margate seafront into a pedestrian's paradise will be unveiled on Thursday. Multi-million pound proposals, being put forward by...

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Turner gallery is news again

Written by Matt B · first published 16/11/2010

Well it looks like the Turner gallery has a good publicity team because somehow finally being able to announce an open date is news.

BBC News - 'Celebration' for Turner gallery opening in Margate

A little-known painting by JMW Turner will form the centrepiece of the opening show at a £17.4m art gallery in Margate which will bear his name.

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So the TC is about to open - are you planning to visit?

How to buy Thanet (part four)

Written by Matt B · first published 04/11/2010

Over the last few weeks I have been looking at "How to Buy Thanet" or more specifically how to buy her domain name space.

Today I want to look at why this matters.

In part two of the series I took a look at the political domain names that were still available.

Why would this be a problem?

Let us imagine that I was standing against Simon Moores in the local elections. I would want to have as much impact as possible. One rather underhand way to do this would be to register SimonMoores.com and put up a site that makes him look foolish or bad at his job.

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» Continue Reading: How to buy Thanet (part four)

How to buy Thanet (part three)

Written by Matt B · first published 03/11/2010

Thanet Star readers Kieth and Dave raised some interesting questions in How to buy Thanet (part two).

Keith pointed out how important it was to test the whois privacy that you get with a domain purchase. (All link examples given in these articles have whois privacy for free).

Dave mentioned buying finely targetted domains (specifically dreamland related domains). I've updated the Thanet and Margate listings with available names but I'd like to look at some of the more competitive and specific examples:

Dreamland was, keyword wise a bit barren. Aside from dreamland.org.uk (which is expensive) there were just three crisp dot com domain names:

dreamland-margate.com is available get it
dreamland-amusement.com is available get it
dreamland-amusement-park.com is available get it

Keep reading to see what else I learned.

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» Continue Reading: How to buy Thanet (part three)

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