I’m prepping four of the websites I work on to migrate — finally — to HTTPS. It’s something I’ve been putting off for a long time, both because of the number of things that can go wrong if not managed properly, and my attachment to the social proof (especially the share counts) of our websites’ …
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This guide was written as an assignment for The Guardian (UK), and published as An insider’s cultural guide to Port of Spain: steel, sass and sweat 1) Your city's culture in five words Steel, seascapes, sass, and sweat. 2) What sound defines your city? The hills and valleys of Port of Spain’s residential communities is a strange combination …
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I'm grateful to have a very full life, so actually watch much fewer TV shows and movies and read far far fewer books than I'd like. But when I want to escape into other worlds and decompress from my own (though sometimes these other worlds leave me more agitated than I'd been before I tuned …
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2013 Much like its predecessors in print and broadcast media, the Internet has been derided for a host of apocalyptic shortcomings. But in between the Instagrammed lunches, public breakups and makeups, prosthelytising posts, and riveting rants, online social media have also proved useful for harnessing the very …
I've been thinking about blogging a lot the last year or so, perhaps over thinking the when, how, wherefores... I blog for work (Marionettes & MEP Publishers), but hardly ever for, well, me. I suppose the closest thing is the "micro-blogs" of Twitter and Facebook status updates – not quite the longform musings that …
We're fairly tree-huggy over at my day job at MEP Publishers. Over the last few years, we've slowly moved closer and closer to being as green a publishing company as one can be in Trinidad and Tobago. We donate as many working electronic items as we can to schools and nonprofits. We've recycled paper for …
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It's 2012 (my birthday, actually!), and we've started the year with a bang! At Discover Trinidad & Tobago's website, we've just added a new interview with debutante mas band designers Karen and Kathy Norman (K2K), the ladies behind the new medium-category, all-inclusive Carnival band "The Waters – Seas of Consciousness". Read all about them here. …
Continue reading Interview with Kathy & Karen Norman (K2K) on Discover, and new issue of Beat
Once again, this year Caribbean Beat and its sister publication at MEP, Discover Trinidad & Tobago, have partnered with the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival (TTFF). The annual festival is a celebration of the best new and recent films from and about the Caribbean and the diaspora. Films are being screened at venues around Trinidad …
Caroline Taylor 