Fed Up With Google’s Treatment of Irvine, Scotland

Having to search online for local businesses is becoming a right pain-in-the ass, especially if you have a local business in Irvine Scotland that is. It’s got to the stage where I just couldn’t hold back anymore and sent a letter to the local press, see what happens with it … Here’s what I sent : I’m not 100% sure if anyone within your office follows what the search engine... [Read more]

Why Matt Cutts Has A Sense of Humour

I had to laugh a few days ago when Google’s most famous engineer produced his latest blog post about page rank sculpting : PageRank sculpting : where Matt went into blog mode to inform webmasters and site optimisers why Google has binned the use of the ‘No Follow’ attribute. The things that gave me the belly laugh was Matt’s comments about why, SEO’s (Search Engine Optimisers)... [Read more]

Fathers Day Gifts For Geeky Dad’s

With Father’s Day fast approaching (this Sunday, take note kids) I thought I’d blog about the type of pressies I’d like to receive instead of the usual DVD, paperback best seller, socks and a nice bottle of red wine (how on earth the kids pass for over 18 down at the local off-sales is beyond me). I’ve also thought about price range as well, what with this being hard times n’all,... [Read more]

Twitter Civilian Journalism Alive and Well

If there is anything that we can positively take from the Iranian Presidential Election result is the way that we as a human race can communicate even over massive walls of silence that the governing powers put in place to keep their people quiet. Thanks, that is, to Twitter and Bloggers. Without them, many of the powerful scenes we have seen on our TV and internet news channel feeds would have been... [Read more]

Web 2.0 is One Millionth Word in English Dictionary

And so it comes to pass, the 1,000,000′th word in the English dictionary is, Web 2.0, what a massive dissapointment. Having being online when Yahoo Geocities was the ideal place to pop-up a few webpages before the dot.com bubble burst, truth be told, it probably became more popular after the 2000 crash. Web 2.0 is a trendy word no-doubt, and seemingly it has caught the attention of those mothballed... [Read more]

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