Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
What is this blog about?
February 12th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
One of the benefits of moving NightHawk from Movable Type to Word Press is that I can instantly see how many of the 1700+ postings have been made under each category. So this blog is far from all about me – just 17% of the postings are categorised “My life and my thoughts”. Mostly this […]
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New platform for NightHawk
February 8th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now been running a personal blog called NightHawk – the name given to a night fighter ace whose biography I wrote – for almost seven years. From April 2003-July 2006, I used pmachine as the platform. Then, from July 2006-February 2010, I used Movable Type. From today, the blog is using Word Press and, […]
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Are all Americans now on the Net?
January 7th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
We think of the United States as so technologically advanced that everyone must at least have an Internet connection even if they don’t have super fast broadband. In fact, according to this latest research, a quarter of adult American are not on the Net. If American policymakers want to tackle the issue of the digital […]
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“Guardian” + iPhone = :-)
December 16th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
This week, two of my favourite objects came together: the “Guardian” newspaper and the iPhone. The combination is the new “Guardian” apps for the iPhone priced at £2.39. There are some really neat features including the ability to customise the presentation of news stories so that one has in effect a personal virtual 24/7 newspaper […]
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The best web sites in the world
December 10th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
This year’s “Guardian” list.
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Web site of the day: Hunch
December 7th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
My attention has been drawn to Hunch. I particularly liked the page entitled What things should I do before I die?.
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What should we do about the Net?
October 27th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
I used to do a lot of media interviews for the Internet Watch Foundation and Postwatch, but these days I do very little indeed. However, this morning, I did a live radio interview for about 15 minutes on City Talk 105.9. I was interviewed by Roy Basnett on regulation of the Internet. I drew on […]
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Back to 6,000 visits a day
October 6th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
The traffic figures for my web site (which embraces my two blogs NightHawk & CommsWatch) follow a couple of cyclical patterns not unrelated to work patterns in the web user population. On a weekly basis, traffic usually peaks on a Tuesday (when people have got on top of the new week’s e-mails?), slowly falls down […]
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Why women dominate social networking
October 5th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Are you a social networker on the Net? I’m not. My web site, my blogs and my “Thought For The Week” – plus, of course, e-mail – do it for me. It seems that most social networks have more women users than male users. Check out the figures here.
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How old is the Internet?
September 2nd, 2009 by Roger Darlington
The answer might surprise you. It all started when about 20 people gathered in the laboratory of Len Kleinrock at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable. That was 2 September 1969 – exactly 40 years ago today. Further information here.
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