On the BBC’s dot.life blog, Rory Cellan-Jones recently discussed whether or not Brits can make any money from blogging. While there are various quotes from Ashley Norris, previously of Shiny Media who is convinced the UK situation is too small and parochial for bloggers to make money, Cellan-Jones is slightly
In September 2002 a small news item flashed around the Internet. It was forwarded from person to person in private email, posted on message boards, and written up in news services for “techies” all over the world. Its headline was something like “First Smiley Rediscovered”. Mike Jones, a researcher at
All one can ask is – why? Turn URLs into something absolutely hugehttp://www.hugeurl.com/ Or have yourself “the longest alphabetical email address in the world” free fromhttp://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
Admit it – you Google yourself sometimes. Don’t you? Isn’t it funny what you can come up with, though. When I first bought my domain name helenwhitehead.com I started getting emails for an American astrologer of the same name. We were all very polite about it and I promised never
Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences
Four good reasons why customers like brands to have online communities and use social media: Consumers are interested in sharing their experiences – both bad AND good. People like to tell others about the brands and products they like – in one study up to 60% of those questioned said
The Guardian reported recently how reviews for the production of the Wizard of Oz at London’s Southbank Centre on the discussion board of Whatsonstage.com, the “leading online forum for ordinary theatregoers” were tepid at best, until suddenly three rave reviews appeared. Only 75 minutes later it was revealed that staff
Today I learned how to solve outgoing email problems. The problem: Email was coming into a new installation of Thunderbird but outgoing mail was throwing up an error message. We checked: The details of the outgoing mail server The usernames and passwords of the relevant accounts The security requirements of
The first program I really felt I needed to carry around with me was Audacity – it was a program I was using a lot to introduce lecturers to podcasting, and it wasn’t installed by default on the University’s computers. So here’s a great idea – keeping a selection of
The BBC reports today on the number of “mums” starting their own businesses. Apparently the number of women working for themselves has leapt by nearly 20% since 2000, according to official figures, and now tops a million. It’s not surprising that more and more people – and not just mums