Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
How you became the web
January 3rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
“Time” magazine’s “Man of the Year” for 1982 was not a man at all but a machine – the computer. In those days, computers were in very few homes, hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, and the World Wide Web did not exist. In 1999, “Time” magazine’s “Person of the Year” (notice the gender […]
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What is Web 2.0?
November 13th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
I write a monthly column on Internet developments and I’ve decided to devote the latest one to the concept of Web 2.0. I explain what I understandi by the term. You can read the piece here.
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Worried about the Web?
November 2nd, 2006 by Roger Darlington
The British creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has told BBC News he fears that, if the way the Internet is used is left to develop unchecked, “bad things” could happen. So he wants set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web’s development. The Web […]
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Almost 100,000 visits last month
November 1st, 2006 by Roger Darlington
According to my traffic statistics, in October there were a total of 98,134 visits to my web site which includes my two blogs. That’s over 3,000 a day. Many thanks for your support. Please encourage friends to have a look. Together we can change how people look at the world and how they behave towards […]
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The 95-5-0.1 rule
October 19th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
On my other blog CommsWatch, a few weeks ago I did a posting titled “Who are the users generating content?” In that posting, I stated: ” … most Net users are still overwhelmingly consumers rather than producers – although this is obviously changing. My website and two weblogs between them average around 3,000 visitors a […]
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Top 100 Labour blogs
September 18th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
I don’t know how I’ve managed this, but somehow NightHawk has appeared – at position 40 – in a list of Top 100 Labour Blogs. Actually, while I am happy to acknowledge my membership of the Labour Party (37 years now). I don’t regard my blog as a specifically Labour platform. but more as a […]
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August a record month
September 1st, 2006 by Roger Darlington
When I had to change the hosting arrangements of my web site and weblogs in July. I feared that I would lose visitors and for the first few weeks, the traffic statistcs were erractic, but they soon settled down. The number of visitors for the month of August was a record at just under 91,000, […]
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The 50 coolest websites
August 17th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
This week the US news magazine “Time” gave a rundown of the 50 coolest sites on the web. Many attract a worldwide audience – but a lot appeal mainly to Americans. So here are 50 coolest websites that, according to the “Mirror” newspaper, us Brits could not live without.
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Girl with a one-track mind
August 11th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
You’ve probably never heard of the blog Girl with a one-track mind (I hadn’t until today) – but you’re going to … Partly because the author has just had a book published based on her sexually explicit blog and partly because her anonymity has just been blown by the “Sunday Times” leading to her volunteering […]
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NightHawk archives saved
August 11th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
As regular visitors will know, I had to relocate the hosting of NightHawk a month or so ago – a process carried out by my good friend Eric Lee. However, transfering the huge archive proved more problematic, but has now been achieved thanks to the kind efforts of the Dutch Victor Gevers who is webmaster […]
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