Just Another Social Profile Really

So, I was chatting to my friend and former colleague Mark Hadfield today and he was asking me which sites I used to keep up to date with digital & tech news. After listing off a few, he suggested that I should put some of these into a weekly round-up. And, as Mark’s a very [...]

A couple of my recent posts have been about the music that made up the soundtrack to the noughties, but obviously a decade is made of more than songs, even for someone as obsessed with music as me. So here’s a random list of the things that I will forever associate with the first ten [...]

A few weeks back I spoke at the media140 event in London. Despite the fact that my voice nearly gave out at one point, saved only by the kind donation of a Strepsil by Gabrielle, it seemed to go well. After I’d finished I got chatting to Ben Cohen, the tech correspondent at Channel 4 [...]

I’ve been closely monitoring the news around the swine flu issue (as well as religiously cleaning my hands after getting off of the moving hamster cages that pass for trains on most week nights) but not because I’m a paranoid hypochondriac who is convinced that this is going to be an armageddon like plague that [...]

It really shouldn’t come as a surprise, when you consider just how many leeches have tried to attach themselves to the tragic story of Jade Goody over the last few months, that people have been bidding on her name on Google. But you might think that the people who have been doing this might have [...]

This morning I was mucking about on teh interwebz and decided to check how I was ranking against my name (eGoogling is an addiction, especially once you start to rank quite well): I’m now page 1 for searches for both versions of my first name (both Ciaran & Ciarán, and links with those words as [...]

I was on the Bakerloo line Tube back from Paddington after my Christmas in Paris when I saw this rather intriguing ad. Risking being taken for a lunatic by the assembled tourists I decided to take a photo as I guessed that it would be related to an interesting advertising campaign. And, on getting home [...]

I’ve just got back from a week away, so apologies if this is a bit after the fact, but Victor Keegan over at The Guardian noted that Danny had been looking into whether or not Google is favouring pages from its new Knol service (i.e. its attempt to kill Wikipedia and make some money in [...]

The Guardian had an interesting article about the video for the new Radiohead single House of Cards. Radiohead has employed a scanning system, called Geometric Informatics, that produces structured light to capture three-dimensional images in close-up. Then, for some atmospheric location shots, an advanced Velodyne Lidar system, which uses multiple lasers to capture large environments, [...]

 I was browsing around earlier and decided to check out a few PPC ads to see how the competition for one of our clients are handling things. Imagine my surprise when I clicked on a Skype ad, showing #1 for the phrase free international calls, and was taken to this page (image below in case [...]