Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
The joy of blogging
August 15th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
In today’s “Guardian”, there’s an article about how some bloggers have become so popular that they have been able to make money from their writing. I’ve been blogging now for more than six years and thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to express myself on different issues. However, I’ve never seen or wanted a commercial dimension to […]
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How not to use Facebook
August 11th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
If this is true, it’s a classic. Even if it’s a spoof, it’s making an excellent point.
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First media interview in a while
July 24th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Since the last day of Postwatch when I did three media interviews (see my blog posting here), I’ve not done any media interviews (Consumer Focus staff take them for the organisation). However, I did a short live interview this morning for BBC Radio Somerset. The issue was the regulation of the Internet, a topic on […]
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New blog hits bottom
July 16th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
The @artinloo blog asks people to ‘express on a piece of toilet paper what you are thinking about at that moment’ and then send the picture in to the site. Check it out here.
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Who is doing the Twittering?
June 8th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
As I explained in this posting, I first tried Twitter two years ago. I soon decided that it was not for me. Frankly, I’ve been surprised that two years later so many people – and much of the media – seem to have suddenly discovered Twitter and decided that it’s a powerful communications tool. For […]
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How many times have I blogged?
May 25th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
I don’t know the exact answer. But I’ve been running my personal blog NightHawk for six years and my professional blog CommsWatch for five and half years. I have precise figures for the past three years when I moved to my current hosting location and I can make a fairly good estimate for the entire […]
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The 12 Internet enemies
April 20th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
The organisation Reporters Without Borders has named 12 “Internet Enemies”: Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. According to the organisation: “All of these countries mark themselves out not just for their capacity to censor news and information online but also for their almost systematic repression of […]
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Social networking overtaken e-mail
March 12th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
“Social Networking has been the global consumer phenomenon of 2008. Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit a social network or blogging site and the sector now accounts for almost 10% of all internet time. ‘Member Communities’ has overtaken personal Email to become the world’s fourth most popular online sector after search, portals and PC […]
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Was the IWF right on the Wikipedia issue?
December 17th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
In the last few weeks, the Internet Watch Foundation – which I chaired for the six years 2000-2005 – has been in the centre of a storm over its decision to put on a blacklist a page on Wikipedia which contained an image which it judged to be potentially illegal. The most thoughtful piece that […]
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Computing and blind persons
November 25th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I recently had occasion to visit the London Head Office of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) as a result of an invitation from a colleague of mine on the new Communications Consumer Panel (formerly known as the Ofcom Consumer Panel). Leen Petre works for the RNIB as Principal Manager: Media and Culture. […]
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