MA Online Journalism: Law for bloggers a... Warning: this is a long post, get yourself a cuppa before you start…. Last week I popped along to the Coffee Lounge in Brum for one of Paul Bradshaw’s open MA Online Journalism sessions. This one was about the law & blogging, something I obviously need to be aware of with The Lichfield...

The Twitter settings update as a lesson ... Twitter went a bit potty today over a change made to the services settings. Yesterday, Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, blogged the change saying, “Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow…...

The internet will make you accountable f... I wouldn’t normally advocate reading The Sun, but as much as it pains me to do so I need to make a point. A woman has apparently initiated divorce proceedings against her husband after spotting his car outside another woman’s house, on Google Street View. “Top media laywer Mark Stephens”...

How MPs can use Twitter to their advanta... I’m pleased to say that my local government is pretty good at this whole internet thing. The Lichfield District Council web site should definitely be looked up to by other councils and they’re also on Twitter along with the tourism folks. But as recent talk has shown, some MPs don’t...

Reasons to use Twitter: Real life user e... This is the first of (hopefully) many posts highlighting ways in which businesses can use Twitter. I’ll be trying to use examples whereever possible. First: Real-life user experience feedback. Frustration at Google AdSense led @tonypiper to tweet, Adsense has got very confusing recently. A great...

Disabling Vista’s “Cancel or...   It’s so very annoying and I just found out how to get RID of it!!! So I’m sharing… Open up the Control Panel (Start > Control Panel) Open up User Accounts Click “Turn User Account Control on or off“ Click Continue (yet another dialog!) Uncheck the check box Click...

LinkedIn Squatting: Claim a Company for ... According to LinkedIn, I am now the proud owner of a company. How so? Because I told them I was. Why did they believe me? Because they didn’t bother to check. I gave them an e-mail address that in no way resembling the company’s web address and in return they let me create and play around...

On reciprocal links and why you shouldn&... Via Search Roundtable, a WebmasterWorld forum post this week asks the question, “should I get rid of my reciprocal links pages?” My short answer: Absolutely! In fact, links pages themselves are a particularly bad idea, unless they are in context (a corporate partners page, for example). In...

404s, 301s and a smidgen of common sense... My guess is that the reason so many SEOs ask the wrong questions is because they don’t have a technical background. I’m not sure how good Barry Schwartz’ technical knowledge is, but today he’s asked, “404 or 301 Your Old Pages? Which is Best For SEO?” There are two...