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10 more sites that stupidly try to ban you from linking to them 16 Jul 2012 | 01:44 am
I've previously written (2009, 2010 and 2011) about sites that forbid you from linking to them - plus my failed attempt to get one of Royal Mail's elusive licences giving permission to link to them (t...
10 ZX Spectrum games to play online 24 Apr 2012 | 06:25 am
Some of the best ZX Spectrum games To celebrate its 30th anniversary, I've come out of blogging hibernation to write a round up of the top 10 ZX Spectrum games you can play online (well, in my opinio...
So long, and thanks for all the links 15 Oct 2011 | 12:39 am
Over the last week, I finally ranked on the first page of Google for a search on "malcolm". Yay. And I finally passed 1,000,000 page views for this blog's posts. Unrelated to that (or was it ...), I'...
Hugely embarrassing: Daily Mail jumps gun on “Amanda Knox guilty” story 4 Oct 2011 | 07:47 am
I'm not sure it gets more embarrassing than this for a news site. In their attempt to be first with the verdict on Amanda Knox, the Mail Online published its pre-written story the moment the judge sai...
Use Facebook’s activity stream to make friends look like adulterous, job-changing murderers 23 Sep 2011 | 09:17 pm
It seems incredibly easy to trick people with Facebook's new timeline thingy into thinking their friends have some serious problems. Tricked him! When you share a link on Facebook, you can edit any ...
Facebook timeline beta screenshots 23 Sep 2011 | 09:38 am
Here's what Facebook's new timeline beta looks like ... (Update: read about how you exploit the activity stream to make your friends look like murdering, adulterous, job-changing, STD-riddled nerds). ...
Rewind Twitter and replay it in real time 20 Sep 2011 | 09:34 am
Twitter - from the past! Ever watched a recorded TV programme and wished you could see what the reaction was on Twitter? Now you can! Together with the brilliant developers at Raak, I've (beta) laun...
Google gives big sites a free pass on author profile pictures 16 Sep 2011 | 08:37 pm
These aren't what you think Notice anything odd about these two web results? They've got Google's new author profile pictures in, right? How you normally make those photos appear Well, no. Norm...
Conference pricing 16 Sep 2011 | 09:33 am
Conferences: expensive Update: Andy has replied in the comments below. Although I stand by my criticism of the pricing model, the £100 gimmick does look a bit blackmaily the next morning. So apologie...
Brighton SEO: Winning at SEO with duplicate content 9 Sep 2011 | 07:00 pm
Usually duplicate content is bad. Google filters it out and links and social signals are split over several different URLs even if the content is the same. But it turns out that you can dominate Goog...
