Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Google’s ‘Good To Know’ campaign
October 19th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In a welcome act of social responsibility, Google has this week launched an information campaign You can check out the advice here.
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Should the Internet be open?
October 12th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The answer may seem obvious. Surely the great thing about the Internet was that anyone could do anything on it. In fact, this was never true. In democratic countries, what is illegal off-line is equally illegal online. And, in authoritarian nations, there are a whole host of controls that limit free expression. Nevertheless most of […]
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Visits statistics exceed 8,000 a day
September 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Five months ago, I did a posting explaining that the number of visits to my web site had exceeded 7,000 in one day for the first time. Over the next few months, this became a regular occurrence. But my visits statistics always dip in the summer months as people take their holidays. I know that […]
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Whose afraid of the cookie monster?
July 28th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I’m not talking here about what we in Britain call biscuits, but about bits of data which are stored on your computer when you visit certain web sites and are used when you revisit those sites – see more information here. The use of cookies has been in the news recently because of a European […]
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Is the Net changing your brain?
July 21st, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It certainly is – but in a good way or a bad way? I discuss this in my latest – the 68th – column on Internet issues which you can read here.
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What do these web sites have in common? (2)
July 20th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
A couple of days ago, I did a posting in which I listed a number of Left-leaning web sites, asked what they had in common, and promised the answer today. The answer is that all these Left-leaning political and trade union sites are being blocked by the public wifi system at St Pancras railway station […]
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What do these web sites have in common? (1)
July 18th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Liberal Conspiracy (creating a new left voice) Labourlist (where Labour minded people come together to share news and opinions and have a laugh) Next Left ( a blog about politics and the future.) Harry’s Place (“Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear”) ToUChstone blog (policy […]
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One million visits in first six months of 2011
July 7th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Like most people who have a web site, I regularly check the traffic statistics to see how much interest there is in my material. I’m pleased to say that, if the first six months of this year, the total number of visits to my web site – which incorporates my personal and professinal blogs – […]
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A review of “The Shallows”
June 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Is Google making us stupid? That was the headline for an article in 2008 which became a book in 2010 which I have reviewed here.
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Should the Internet be regulated?
June 14th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just returned from an unusual venue for a humanist like me – a “Media Futures” conference organised by the Church + Media Network held in a location I’d never previously heard of (Swanick, near Afreton in Derbyshire). I was there to debate the motion “The house would regulate the Internet”. The session was chaired […]
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