Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
It’s 25 years since the World Wide Web was created
March 9th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
To mark the occasion, “Observer” writer John Naughton has written an article entitled “25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday” which you can read here. The web was, of course, invented by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee who decribed the experience in his 1999 book “Weaving The Web” which […]
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The nearest I will ever come to an Olympic performance
March 5th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Together with Helen Milner, Chief Executive of the Tinder Foundation (on whose Board I sit), I hold one of the Olympic torches from the 2012 Games while on a visit today to the BT Tower in London for the launch of the 2014 Tech4Good Awards.
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What did we Google in 2013?
January 1st, 2014 by Roger Darlington
If you live in the UK, these were the most popular search terms here. If you live in the USA, these were the most popular search terms here. You can check out the most popular global searches here. If you are not British or American and want to check the searches for your country, go […]
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Annual visits to my web site pass 3 million mark
January 1st, 2014 by Roger Darlington
OK, I’ve done the sums. In 2013, the number of visits to my web site – which includes my two blogs NightHawk and CommsWatch – was 3,020,367. I know that not all these visits are human beings but it’s worth being visited by search engines indexing my pages. Besides which, as long as one is […]
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What 70 of the world’s leading human rights organisations have told David Cameron about the British government’s reaction to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden
November 4th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
“We have joined together as an international coalition of free speech, media freedom and human rights organisations because we believe that the United Kingdom government’s response to the revelations of mass surveillance of digital communications is eroding fundamental human rights in the country. The government’s response has been to condemn, rather than celebrate, investigative journalism, […]
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A very new update on a classic Internet joke
November 1st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Click here.
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Has the web grown too big for its bytes?
October 25th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
“Every year I return from a visit to California dazed at cyberia’s next expansion in reach. After machines that can track and record our every move will come sensors that can identify our faces and gather, catalogue and distribute such data worldwide. After tools that can read messages come ones that can hear our talk […]
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A review of a new book on the Internet: “Untangling The Web”
September 21st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
For a decade and half now, I’ve read a new book on the Internet about once a year. So I’ve just read “Untangling The Web” by Aleks Krotoski and you can read my review here.
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Have we become too dependent on the Internet?
September 19th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
This is the question that I have sought to address in the latest of my regular series of columns on Internet issues. You can read it here.
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Up to 10,000 visits to my web site
September 11th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
My web site – which includes this personal blog NightHawk and my professional blog CommsWatch – continues to receives a large number of visits, but the number varies by the day of the week and the month of the year. This week, I’ve had a couple of days with just over 10,000 visits – something […]
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