Year: 2011

  • Blogging isn’t dead, it’s evolving

    There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook…

  • Facebook in the mainstream

    How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst…

  • Worry-free congestion charging

    One of the realities today of driving into a city like London is the congestion charge, a tax on vehicles entering a specified zone the boundaries of which are clearly marked by signs like the one here. It’s probably largely…

  • How to automate your copyright year

    The other day, I noticed that the copyright notice I display in the footer of this blog still said ‘2010.’ So I dived into the code in the footer template in the WordPress theme I use and made the change…

  • Top 20 UK tech blogs for January 2011

    The start of a new month as well as a new year, and time for a preview look at the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As usual, my friends at European search engine and news portal…