Category: Internet

This is great news. I’ve obviously applied, but we’ll have to wait and see.

I seem to be getting a surprising amount of Russian spam in my Gmail account at the moment. And when I say Russian spam, I mean spam that’s actually in Cyrillic text. Very strange.

So it seems that the record industry in the UK lost £650m in the last two year due to piracy. No it didn’t. The “shortfall” identified by TNS would simply not have been spent at all. I don’t doubt that the music was downloaded but that’s not the same as “losing money”. It’s money that…

There’s been much discussion in recent days about the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) announcing that more money is being spent on the internet than is on radio. I must admit to being a little untrusting of this information and I’m not sure that like is being compared with like. And I don’t just say that…

Trade magazine Media Week emailed me to complete one of those online surveys, the results of which are obviously going to form the basis of a future article. At the end of the survey it explained that I’d be entered into a free prize draw to win a holiday which was partly sponsored by Formula…

So following on from my post about the New Order Bluetooth ad the other day I’ve been trying to think of other possibilities using Bluetooth technology. Every year at work we entertain clients at the V Festival. I’d like to be able to use this technology to do something clever for them like this. A…

I’ve been playing with satellite photos for the last couple of days. First of all there’s the new satellite photos to be found on Google Maps which are lovely IF you happen to live in the US (or at least want to see satellite photos of the US). But then I found out about NASA’s…

Good news – Virgin Radio has started podcasting! Bad news – we’ve coined the term “podvertising“…

Over the last couple of weeks, Gmail has changed around how it highlights the invites you have left quite a lot. Now, all of sudden, instead of having six invites, I have fifty! Are Google entering a new phase of opening up Gmail? This new openness suggests that an invite is no longer a valuable…

Is Trackback Spam the new Comment Spam? Worth noting that since I introduced the “you can’t comment until you log in” thing with Typekey, I haven’t had any Comment Spam at all. Mind you, I’ve not had many comments either…

A great initiative to stop comment spam has been the introduction of the rel=”nofollow” tag that Google has come up with and other major search engines and blogging software vendors are supporting. The reason for comment spam is to get yourself ranked high on search engines page ranks. But including “nofollow” on the link means…

Well I’ve tentatively re-enabled commenting on the site. It requires you to have a Typekey username so you’ll have to go away and sign up for one if you’ve got something you want to say to me. And as a result, I will also want a copy of your email address. Be sure that I’ll…

Wow. This article scares the hell out of me in regard to comment spam that I’ve been suffering. And it may well be the case that something to do with comment spam was the cause of my massive file issues. Although that may have been a broken RSS link. In the meantime, I’ve got to…