Every day now I am hearing about the latest “revolutionary, automated, turn Twitter into an ATM cash machine autopilot make money in your underpants system” and it is making me sick. What can we do about it? The simple truth is we...

Do you personalize your blog? Personalization is a common theme in marketing, in a “Hi Firstname” way, but seldom outside of personal blogs, do people think about how they can personalize their content. What do I mean by personalizing your...

Social Media is gaining popular attention. It might be because of Ashton and Oprah, it could be because of the economy, but more and more companies and non-profits are enquiring about the subject. The same question comes up in each discussion...

Recently an email subscriber complained that I had sent out a newsletter containing links shortened via a URL shortner service. There are a couple of reasons I did this. First if a URL is too long email programs break the links by wrapping. This means I...

For a while blogging became just my job. My last hobby blog had been sold, my personal blog down and broken. It seemed the fun had gone out of blogging for me. So to fix that, a friend and I just launched a purely fun blog, all about Formula 1. In doing...

My formal education didn’t progress very far but I do remember one thing from data processing. Programmers have a saying about inputs and outputs they call “GIGO”, and this applies to many areas of life, especially social media...

It has been panned by site owners, but Digg are sticking to their DiggBar. This means we have to add workarounds to break out of their URL-stealing frameset. Thankfully, this problem was fixed back in the 1990’s, the last time spammy sites tried...

You know what is worse than someone stealing the hard work of someone else and profiting from it? No, I didn’t either, until today. The answer? Claiming that THEY are the victim. Yes, you read that right. Not only did this guy steal 50 of Darren...

I have just had another enforced absence from the internets, and to be honest now the dust has cleared, I think it might have done me some good … We have just got back from another week in hospital fretting and worrying at my daughters bedside....

One of the most frustrating aspects of reading blogs is when either the blogger or commenter makes unsupported statements. You will notice that introduction contains an unsupported statement. Instead I might have written “I get frustrated when a...