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Now that Nightjack’s blog identity has been sprung and bloggers are no longer anonymous anymore, perhaps it’s time to “out” the anonymous newspaper correspondents and sources too?
Thanks to the Times it seems that bloggers no longer have the priviledge of anonymity. To be fair in the case of Nightjack the police who he worked for were closing in on him and would probably have worked out who he was fairly soon even without the ...
Is your blog a Rolls or a Trabant?
Much as we might laugh at the Trabants that East Germany used to turn out as being unreliable and prone to break down, sadly that’s what many blogs seem to look like these days. Oh, they don’t break down, but the quality of the workmanshi...
How DO you measure the effectiveness in attracting traffic of a change in your website?
The number of hits that myself and Wendy have been picking up on our main blogs has gone up quite dramatically over the last month or two and, ideally, we’d like to know why that is but, of course, the problem is that we’ve not just done ...
Would you, should you or can you advertise on Twitter?
Although you might not think there was a whole lot of scope for advertising in a medium that only gives you 140 characters to play with, there are a growing number of ways to advertise through Twitter although whether or not they’re actually ef...
A change of theme for the blog
With summer approaching fast I thought I’d give my new theme a whirl and use any feedback to tidy it up a little before releasing it on an unsuspecting world. This is the theme I was working on off and on throughout last year. It’s got oo...
Bumping into the same folk on Twitter that I’ve seen on blogs
Having started to move more seriously onto Twitter a short while ago it’s interesting to see that using the keyword approach to find people is working rather unexpectedly well and I’m finding people that I’ve run across via their bl...
Adjusting to Twitter
Although I’ve had a Twitter account for ages, I hadn’t really done anything with it ’til last week. Simple reason for that really: Twitter lets you type up to 140 characters in a message and I’m very much a long winded kind of...
Reworking the blog
As y’all may have noticed of late, this blog is in the midst of yet another change of focus. Originally, it started life way back in February 2004 as a means of keeping in touch with the folks back home when we were getting going on our life in...
