Jeremy

Our February 2026 newsletter featured the  “Local Images” website built for Manchester Central Library (MCL), which we launched about a year ago but recently enhanced with metadata derived using what is often vaguely referred to as “AI” (including in our newsletter). Although the whole newsletter was devoted to the topic, in the interest of brevity … Read more

Tl;dr: the AI boom has created an increase in the number of bots crawling websites to harvest their content. This has impaired the performance of some of the sites we host for our customers. We’re doing our best to understand the problem, and to block the bots wherever we can, including using services like Cloudflare. … Read more