Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Welcome to Twitter
May 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Heard of Twitter? Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website or 3rd party applications. I recently wrote an article about these kinds of technique for being connected and I’ve just been persuaded by my Dutch friend and IT guru Oskar van […]
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Faster, cheaper broadband
May 11th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Although I sit on two statutory consumer bodies – the Ofcom Consumer Panel and the Postwatch Council – I’m not a very active consumerist myself. I guess I value my time more than my money. But even I had come to the conclusion that it was ridiculous that I was still spending £23.44 a month […]
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5,000 visitors a day
April 27th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This week has seen up to 5,000 visitors a day to my combined web site and two weblogs. This has happened before but then it coincided with a surge of spam to the comment sections of the blogs. This week is the first ‘normal’ week that traffic has hit 5,000 visits a day. This equates […]
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Blogging in the Muslim world
April 18th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In my last posting, I talked about my four years of blogging. Of course, blogging is a worldwide phenomenon and there are now over 70 million blogs although many do not seem to last long. The Muslim world is desperately in need of the freedom of speech and expression that blogging tends to encourage. But […]
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Four years of blogging
April 18th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I had been reading about weblogs or blogs for months before I actually met someone who was running one. At a London seminar on trade union use of the Internet, held in December 2002, I came across an enthusiastic Dutchman called Oskar van Rijswijk who had been operating a blog since October and was really […]
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A challenge to America
April 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
The Internet Watch Foundation – which I chaired for six years – continues to do great work and today publishes its latest annual report with some sobering messages. New figures show the severity of online child abuse content is increasing, with a four-fold rise in images depicting the most severe abuse, such as penetrative and […]
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Blinking hell!
April 3rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A couple of days ago, I did a posting about how I might have become a Labour Member of Parliament but instead Austin Mitchell was chosen as the candidate for Grimsby. In researching that story, I came across Austin’s blog and I was stunned at the blinking text. Nobody – I mean nobody – does […]
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Would you appear on the web 24/7?
April 1st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
No – neither would I. But Justin Kan of San Francisco does.
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The most boring web site on earth?
March 31st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
It’s a webcam of a round of cheddar cheese sitting on a shelf at a Somerset farm beside a clock ticking off the days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds as the cheese matures. So far, it’s had almost 700,000 visits. You can check it out here. Hope that the excitement is not too much for […]
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Blogging: the good, the bad and the ugly
March 30th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
As will be evident from NightHawk, I’m a big fan of blogging – but the blogosphere is a problematic space. Firstly, it is not unknown for bloggers to be dismissed by their employers because they blog. But the good news is that one such blogger has just won a court case in which her employer […]
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