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title: "Guest Articles"
date: 2017-07-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
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# Guest Articles

**The Spinoff:**

A New Zealand culture and news website.

- 16 December 2019: [How 5G will make Auckland a better place to live](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/vodafone/16-12-2019/how-to-make-auckland-smarter/); sponsored post
- 12 December 2019: [The digital human who wants to talk to you about your health insurance](https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/southern-cross-health/12-12-2019/the-digital-human-who-wants-to-talk-to-you-about-your-health-insurance/); sponsored post
- 3 February 2018: [Could blockchain unshackle us from the corporate internet?](https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/03-02-2018/could-blockchain-unshackle-us-from-the-corporate-internet/)
- 30 June 2016: [Blindsided by the Brexit result? Blame the ‘filter bubble’ of social media](https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/30-06-2016/brexit-exposes-the-dangers-of-the-social-media-filter-bubble-again)

**ReadWrite:**

I left the company I founded in October 2012, but added a couple more posts after:

- 23 February 2015: [How MyFitnessPal Became The King Of Diet Trackers](https://readwrite.com/2015/02/23/trackers-myfitnesspal-excerpt/)
- 19 April 2013: [RW10: A Decade Of Spotting The Future Taking Form](https://readwrite.com/2013/04/19/rw10-richard-macmanus-readwrite-tenth-anniversary/)

**Digital Web Magazine:**

In 2004-05, I wrote or co-wrote three articles for the web design magazine [Digital Web](http://www.digital-web.com/):

- 5 September 2005: [Writing Semantic Markup](http://www.digital-web.com/articles/writing_semantic_markup/) (co-authored with Joshua Porter)
- 4 May 2005: [Web 2.0 for Designers](http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/) (co-authored with Joshua Porter)
- 28 April 2004: [The Evolution of Corporate Web Sites](http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_evolution_of_corporate_web_sites/)