Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
How to build progressive activism online
January 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This past weekend, I spent a whole day attending a conference to discuss how political and social activists can better use online tools to advance progressive causes and messages – the first such event in the UK. If that seems an odd way to occupy a Saturday in a cold and dark January, all I […]
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Facebook and HMU
December 17th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Apparently 80,00 times a day Facebook carries the message HMU. What does it mean? Answer here.
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Netroots UK event
December 13th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
If you live in the UK and you’re interested in using the Net for social activism, you might want to attend this event.
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The right to be forgotten
November 5th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The European Commission has proposed a legal “right to be forgotten” as part of its update of data protection rules, allowing Internet users to ensure that shameful pictures or other embarrassing online content is deleted from Facebook or other social networking websites. This is in response to growing fears about the negative influence of social […]
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What’s that baby doing online?
October 21st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I recently did a posting about how my unborn granddaughter (we think) already has a presence on Facebook. It seems that it is now very much the norm for babies to have an online presence. A recent study published by Internet Security Firm AVG states 5% of babies under 2 have social media profiles, 7% […]
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Get Online Week 2010
October 18th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Are you online? Of course, you are. That’s why you’re looking at this blog! And you love being an Internaut, don’t you? But, here in the UK, a quarter of all homes are still not connected. Put another way, some nine million people are Internoughts. Get Online Week is a special effort to address this […]
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My connected (unborn) granddaughter (we think)
September 30th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Last week, I met my colleagues on the newly-formed Policy Stakeholder Committee of Nominet. Those eight people are all intense users of the Net but interestingly none of us chooses to be an active user of social networking sites. But I’m due to become a grandfather in early January and my lovely daughter-in-law has just […]
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How has the Internet changed you?
August 23rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
There’s been a series of articles recently speculating about whether use of the Internet is changing the way our brains are wired and how we think. There was this article in the “Observer” and another one in the “Guardian”. The timing is partly the fact that summer is such a quiet period for hard news […]
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Redesign of BBC news website
July 14th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The BBC – which has one of the best news websites in the world – has redesigned it to make it even better. You can check out the changes here.
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Nine things to understand about the Internet
June 21st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s hard to believe but it’s only 17 years since the web went mainstream and yet today about 1.8 billion people use the Internet every day. I was a relatively late user of the Net, starting only in 1998 as I’ve explained here. But now I’m a massive user with a long-standing web site and […]
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