Internet & web
Weekly updates (21 February 2025)
Is someone attempting to impersonate me on Instagram? (15 June 2023)
How does one convince Google Maps that a store is now closed? (26 August 2019)
A new WordPress site for BBC News in three days for five dollars (1 May 2018)
Pinterest removes the ‘Like’ button (1 June 2017)
Finding Hogwarts on Google Search and Maps Web & spam (23 August 2016)
101% guarantee? Web & spam (13 May 2016)
Defamation on social media (3 May 2016)
A thousand words for $5 (2 December 2015)
New Google+, new emphases, new direction Notes on Google+ (18 November 2015)
Twitter and European public sphere (21 September 2015)
How not to promote your business Notes on Google+ (8 September 2015)
Google+, or death of a vision (27 July 2015)
Page source reveals job advertisement (16 July 2015)
Interesting profiles Notes on Google+ (10 July 2015)
Affordable guest posting services Spam in my inbox (6 May 2015)
Costly fake and defamatory review Notes on Google+ (9 March 2015)
Gmail or Google Apps? Notes on Google+ (4 March 2015)
End of serendipity? Thoughts on Google+ (17 February 2015)
Do you need to use Google+? Thoughts on Google+ (3 December 2014)
Facebook Likes and Google +1s Thinking aloud about social media (30 November 2014)
Networks of spam Thoughts on Google+ (18 November 2014)
On ello and tsu Thoughts on social media (28 October 2014)
Infographics and top x lists Things I hate online (5 August 2014)
Simplicity or utility? Buttons and widgets Thinking aloud about website management (4 June 2014)
One profile, one language? Ramblings on social media (2 June 2014)
One page, one language Thinking aloud about website management (1 June 2014)
Google+ views, photos, and local Thoughts on Google+ (8 May 2014)
Is Google+ walking dead? Ramblings on social media (26 April 2014)
Views metric Thoughts on Google+ (4 April 2014)
I do not remove links (31 March 2014)
How long should a post or an article be? (31 March 2014)
Imminent demise of Facebook? Ramblings on social media (23 February 2014)
Using rel="publisher" link Notes on Google+ (10 February 2014)
To circle, or not to circle, that is the question Thoughts on Google+ (19 January 2014)
Stumbling upon weird sites (5 January 2014)
A clarificatory note on Terminological confusion Notes on Google+ (23 December 2013)
Terminological confusion Notes on Google+ (22 December 2013)
Google+ and search Notes on Google+ (14 December 2013)
Small inefficiencies of not using CMS Thinking aloud about website management (4 December 2013)
Different spaces, different purposes Website and social networking sites (30 November 2013)
YouTube, Google+, and advertisements Thoughts on Google+ (12 November 2013)
Guest post on my site? (24 October 2013)
Being a TC (Top Contributor) (12 October 2013)
Stealth marketing and fake fans Notes on online social media (20 September 2013)
FCO spent £20,000 on Facebook fans (15 September 2013)
Google+ is pulling the wrong title! Notes on Google+ (14 September 2013)
Embedding Google+ posts: two potential issues? Notes on Google+ (12 September 2013)
Google+ pages without Google+ profiles Notes on Google+ (26 August 2013)
Google+ profiles and pages: author and publisher mark-ups Notes on Google+ (27 July 2013)
Own your page Notes on Google+ pages (26 July 2013)
Authority, authorship, and organic search Thoughts on Google+ (14 July 2013)
Facebook and businesses: divergent interests? (15 June 2013)
I don’t want strangers following me! Notes on Google+ (13 June 2013)
Subdomains vs subdirectories Notes on Google+ pages (26 May 2013)
Questionable experiments Google+ and SEO (15 April 2013)
Social buttons Pondering about web design (23 March 2013)
Do not spam! Notes on Google+ (25 February 2013)
Log in and Gmail for Google+ pages Notes on Google+ (8 February 2013)
Google and three strands of search: organic, local, and personal (7 February 2013)
Is Google+ the second-largest social networking site? If so, who cares? Notes on Google+ (29 January 2013)
Are SEOs magicians? (28 January 2013)
Pointing out factual mistakes Thoughts on internet etiquette (25 January 2013)
Should you (have) create(d) a Google+ profile? Notes on Google+ (4 December 2012)
Penguin and negative SEO (20 September 2012)
Changes to this site: March 2012 (29 March 2012)
Spammers and forums (26 February 2012)
Are bloggers journalists and part of the media? (7 December 2011)
Obituaries for Google+? (23 November 2011)
Social networking sites: who owns the content? (17 November 2011)
Online personalities (9 November 2011)
Original and unique content (31 October 2011)
Using Google+ as a sounding board (12 October 2011)
Using Google+ as a blogging platform? (27 September 2011)
Web content and design (26 September 2011)
Updating the site while travelling (20 September 2011)
Google goes social: 2 (4 July 2011)
Long memories of search engines (13 April 2011)
Google goes social (4 April 2011)
Changes to this site (7 October 2010)
Google to provide search results and advertisements for Yahoo! Japan (27 July 2010)
I write like ... (20 July 2010)
Twitter — How did I manage to accumulate followers? (6 July 2010)
Blogging on the go (9 June 2010)
Facebook: internet’s evil empire (23 April 2010)
Blogging Time to declutter (12 April 2010)
Unintended advertisements (4 April 2010)
Belgians and social networking sites (24 March 2010)
Twitter, credibility, and truth (20 March 2010)
Forums and levels (18 March 2010)
Blogging Auto pagination (7 March 2010)
Using DISQUS (5 March 2010)
Keeping track of blogs (2 March 2010)
Data retention and privacy of telecommunications (2 March 2010)
Blogging Does font matter? (24 February 2010)
Blogging How quickly do search engines list posts? (22 February 2010)
Did Google botch Buzz launch? (16 February 2010)
Google Buzz: initial reactions (9 February 2010)
Blog design If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it? (7 February 2010)
Creating ‘pages’ in Blogger (4 February 2010)
Am I addicted to the internet and depressed? (3 February 2010)
Facebook and expectation of privacy (11 January 2010)
Blogging Which language should one use? (29 December 2009)
How much bigger can Facebook be? (28 December 2009)
Using machine translation to create ‘original’ content (25 December 2009)
Quick thoughts on Twitter (24 December 2009)
China: People’s Daily uses Twitter (23 December 2009)
Blogging Over-stuffing blogs with widgets (20 December 2009)
I opened a Twitter account (20 December 2009)
Blogging Whither have all the readers gone? (9 December 2009)
Twitter is the word of the year (in Dutch) (22 November 2009)
The demise of GeoCities (27 October 2009)
Twitter, a force for good? (21 October 2009)
Blogging Concentrating on one blog (19 October 2009)
Blogging Randomness that is the Next Blog (15 September 2009)
Blogging Public and permanent (12 August 2009)
Internet Charging for news (6 August 2009)
Blogging Loading time (3 August 2009)
Internet I hate inline text advertisements! (17 July 2009)
Google’s assault on Microsoft (8 July 2009)
Blogging Don’t expect to make (much) money (18 June 2009)
Internet I’m not a twit (9 June 2009)
The net fragments? (3 April 2009)
Internet Opera “reload every ...” function (6 February 2009)
Internet Politician shuts down www.wikipedia.de (15 November 2008)
Internet Who censors what? (15 November 2008)