Mandy Brown has a great post that concisely describes the dilemma of advertising and reading on the web. The disruption of the reading experience by advertising is an issue I feel incredibly strongly about and one that has prompted me to adopt a variety of strategies, from avoiding particular web sites altogether to using tools [...]
So I like Twitter. It’s a source of links, small nuggets of wisdom and also a place where you can vent to the world about whatever’s got your goat without needing to write it up all good and proper so it won’t look out of place on your otherwise tidy blog. (I expend literally hours [...]
So I was talking to Mike at work and he mentioned a site he uses for writing called DarkCopy. DarkCopy is one of those distraction-free word processing applications that you can only describe as ‘minimal’. DarkCopy does nothing except display the letters you’re typing on a black background. There’s no font faces, no tables, no [...]
So I was thinking about advertising on social networks yesterday. As one does. Obviously there’s a lot of interest in this space at the moment, what with the astronomical figures that are thrown around whenever a Facebook buyout comes up in conversation. Most of these figures are connected to the ridiculously huge number of ‘eyeballs’ [...]
As long-time readers of this blog might be aware I have something of a love-hate relationship with coComment. I want to like it. I even want to use their Firefox extension. When they make that all but impossible to use I’ll even resort to using their bookmarklet which requires me to manually activate it on [...]