Thursday, January 5, 2012
TweetThere’s been a resurgence of high-profile tech bloggers deciding to turn off comments on their sites. I’ve written previously about comments, and how they can be a real turn-off, and potentially damage reader numbers (even if they shouldn’t). It’s interesting to see how this issue develops in two communities Im involved in, technology and music. SoundCloud [...]
TweetYesterday morning, when the seed was finally live and the servers had finally recovered, I updated (well, restored) my trusty two year-old iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 Beta 1. Since then I have made calls, sent messages, listened to music, tweeted, planned journeys and made journeys. This is a brief summary of what I’ve found. [...]
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
TweetI wrote about getting an iPad not so long after they came out, and put my hand up to say “this thing is here to stay”. I respond to my own post with a dose of extraordinary smugness, as two things have happened since. First, Apple sold 7.3 million iPads in 9 months. Second, I’m [...]
Tweet So I mentioned a thing we’ve been making. And now, we’ve made enough of it that we’d like you to try it. You’ll hopefully find it really useful if you are: a) a scientist working in the biochemical field, or b) someone who reads PDF documents regularly. Utopia Documents lets publishers, editors, and authors [...]
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Tweet Thompson Wireless DSL router D-Link Wireless ADSL router D-Link 8 port hub Zonet 4 port Switch/Router Ixus *film* camera Ikea bendy desk lamp Ikea coffee table, glass and wood Trio turntable, tuner, cassette deck (1983 I believe ) For free or a small charity donation – that’s where they’ll go afterwards anyway.
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TweetI posted this as a comment on an article entitled “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook“. The biggest question for me as to whether I should stay with Facebook, is down to me knowing who I’m sharing my data with. Do I have the choice that the terms seem to say I have? From [...]
TweetI’m not sure I needed to do a PhD to work this out, but who knows. The BBC3 TV channel costs £83m a year and reaches 1.7% of the population. The BBC 6Music radio station costs £7m a year and reaches 1% of the population. If you are on a cost-cutting exercise, which would you [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
TweetHello. This is my first post on my new blog and so I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Philip McDermott, I’m from the UK, and I have a number of different hats. One even has horns, but I won’t be wearing that one on here. Primarily in this blog I’ll be writing with this hat [...]