Devil stagnates as God grows in news stories
A curious long-term trend from Google: looking at the number of mentions of God and the Devil in online news stories worldwide over the last five years… … Read the full post »
Read my posts about the internet giant Google and in particular how Google’s products and services are used in political campaigning.
What are the lessons from Channel 4’s YouTube deal?
The news that Channel 4 is going to use YouTube as the mechanism for providing catch-up and archive content, starting in November, is of obvious direct interest to the TV industry. … Read the full post »
Battle for future of books hots up as Kindle goes international
Both Amazon and Google have unveiled major developments in their plans to dominate the future of e-books. These moves will not only see… … Read the full post »
A reminder of how little most people know about online campaigning
My first thoughts about today’s BBC report of the Google-sponsored fringe meeting at Conservative conference weren’t wholly complimentary. … Read the full post »
Ten top internet tips for councillors
It is pretty rare these days to find a local councillor who does not make use of the internet, at least occasionally. … Read the full post »
Is "What Would Google Do?" the right question?
The title of Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? book is a deliberate echo of the American phrase, “What would Jesus do?” … Read the full post »
What’s the next next big thing in social media?
First social media was the next big thing. And we’ve got Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the crowd, with large and fast growing numbers of users. … Read the full post »
Facebook’s challenge to Google: as predicted
The BBC and others are running stories today about how Facebook’s takeover of FriendFeed is making it into a serious challenger to Google. … Read the full post »
Libel good news: Justice Eady rules in favour of Google
There was good news for people who operate search engines – and by extension for the users of search engines, which is pretty much everyone on the internet – with a ruling last week from Justice Eady in favour of Google. The case involved a UK training company, Metropolitan International Schools (MIS), who viewed comments … Read the full post »
If Google is so great at usability, why…
If you go to Google’s search engine front page – probably its most important web page – you’d expect to find a page that’s been carefully designed. … Read the full post »