Make sure you don’t succumb to these awfully effective ways of getting yourself overlooked; ignored; or, even worse, cast aside and forgotten with nothing more than a single flex of a finger. Here are, in no particular order (except maybe the last one), 6 highly effective ways to piss off your social network.… Continue Reading
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Can you compete with the Super-Taskers?
Think you’re pretty good at multi-tasking? Well, get ready for the Super-Taskers and their uncanny ability to have more things going on at once then you could ever possible handle; even on a good day.… Continue Reading
Social Media: Crafting a Digital Identity
With the absolutely overwhelming boom of various forms of social media it has often been said that we now know our friends more than ever. You know how they feel when they wake up, who they went out with on the weekend (and who they got particularly close to…), and the various interests and associates that you may never have otherwise realised you had in common. But there is an elephant in the room here, and that is that we are all crafting our digital identities (to a greater or lesser extent) to portray the us that we want people to see.… Continue Reading
Digital Economy Bill in the UK a totalitarian nightmare?
The fight to secure copyrights on the internet will always be an ongoing one, but the most recent dilemma is that being faced in the UK with the proposed Digital Economy Bill that has just recently seen a number of amendments that are cause for concern (to say the least).… Continue Reading
Google conviction sparks debate over internet freedom
I’ve had a few posts recently that revolve around multi-national technology giant Google, both for positive and negative reasons, and today’s news has once again brought the company right into the ethical spotlight. An Italian judge has convicted three Google executives and given each a six-month suspended sentence because of a video of an autistic boy being bullied that was uploaded onto Google’s video service in 2006.… Continue Reading
Does Google profit from ‘typo-squatters’?
I found this fascinating article over at New Scientist, which looks at projections on how much Google might be earning from typo-squatters – those annoying people who buy up wrongly spelled domain names in order to make a quick buck.… Continue Reading