wake up and smell the copy
Posted in internet, marketing, online journalism on Mar 12th, 2010
I don’t know. Seems I’m still feeling pissy about the polluting effect of SEO on content. While Google News seems to have temporarily extinguished Autobulbs Direct, a host of similar sites are cropping up in its results, blabbering on about how the weather could delay prestige car hire customers (people) or how British commercial vehicle [...]
Posted in digression, internet on Mar 11th, 2010
Posted in internet, technology on Mar 5th, 2010
An earlier gush on Twitter (I refuse to pander by calling it a twush or anything equally facile) provoked a couple of replies, revealing that I’m not alone in my admiration for Google’s Chrome browser. I came to it late – about two weeks ago, truth be told. I’d been struggling with IE, and have [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 4th, 2010
Just noticed this box on the BBC site as it prepares to cover the Oscars. It’s the first time I’ve seen them directly embed tweets into a story. Looking at the actual feed page it seems like there’s a problem – an 11 hour-time lag between a tweet and its appearance on the BBC page. [...]
Posted in internet on Feb 18th, 2010
Less is more, and I’d pay Facebook a micro-subscription if they’d take away the adverts.
Posted in digression, internet on Jan 23rd, 2010
**Updated below** I got a worrying email last night from a friend and ex-colleague, letting me know that he’d had a phishing message purportedly from my Last.FM account. Oops, we both thought – I’d been hacked. I went in and changed my password. I subsequently discovered an email to me ‘from’ another colleague that also [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, online journalism on Dec 8th, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that the BBC News website could do with a lift in the search engines. After all, the site just never appears in the search results and hardly seems to get any traffic. Anyway, as editor Steve Herrmann explained in November, the BBC is finally embracing some [...]
I’m 37. Facebook knows it, and you get to set an age range when you’re placing adverts like this: FAIL.
Posted in digression, internet on May 14th, 2009
Right, it isn’t interesting, but for the sake of background here’s the story behind Handolio. Back in 1998 or something when I was twatting around playing internet games at Bullfrog, I used the moniker Handles, after an accidental/deliberate mis-appellation in a record company rejection letter we once got. But as the games got popular, more [...]
Posted in internet on Feb 3rd, 2009
Skim the article, then read the first two comments. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/30/us-box-office-preview-monsters-vs-aliens (via @christt, via @davidahughes)
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