£72.50/mth ain’t bad for The Lich... What started as ’suck it and see’ exercise is now generating over £70 in ad revenue each month for The Lichfield Blog. With 7 out of 8 ad spots now taken up on the blog I’m wondering whether there is some money to be made here… We’ve made very little effort to actually...

This is why we do it... After a not so great week I’m really glad I got off my arse and made it to Birmingham Social Media Café. Whenever I go to these things I always wonder whether I’ll get anything out of it but there’s always been at least one thing that’s made it worthwhile. Today was no exception...

There is no web 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0... This is deliberately similar to my first Posterous post, “There is no new vs. old media“… There is no web 1.0 or web 2.0 or even web 3.0. There is only the evolving web. I despise the use of the phrase “web 2.0″ when it relates to web design, for example – it...

Are you bostin?... via youtube.com I can’t claim to be much of a bostin bloke myself having been brought up in North Warwickshire but you’ve gotta love the “allroight” at the end This was posted via web from Philip’s posterous

News is an onion... Pic: Jason Scragz A wise ogre once told a donkey, “Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.” I’d like to add a third to the ‘things with layers list’; online news. While the news industry is going through all this...

There is no new vs. old media... I’ve said it many times at various events this year but I decided a short but sweet blog post was needed (and what better place than my as yet unused Posterous). Here goes… There is no new and old media. There is only evolving media. Right now it’s going through what I consider...

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Why... This week, David Cameron announced that he is prepared to impose all-women shortlists for the next general election. The Labour Party has already used all-women shortlists and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said he would consider introducing them if the number of women MPs in his party didn’t...

Free your post code!... Today, Ernest Marples Postcodes was shut down by Royal Mail. The service enables great sites such as PlannngAlerts.com and The Straight Choice as well as many others. The action is stifling digital innovation in the UK and really needs to be freed up. So, in order to combat this let’s free up the...

A short note for Mr Stott before he come... There’s plenty of discussion going on in Government about putting data out and what to put out and how to put it out and all that nonsense. Especially in local government. It sounds like there’s concern that releasing data isn’t good enough and that government has a responsibility to...