The future of newspapers

Posted by Graeme in Business & Investment,Internet at 10:28 am on Monday, 9 April 2007

Judging by this interview, it appears that at least one major investor in newspapers in the US is over-optimistic about the impact of the internet. It reflects the same problem as the trends we have seen in British newspaper circulation. (more…)

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The amazing Slashdot dupes

Posted by Graeme in Internet,Wrong at 1:41 pm on Monday, 19 March 2007

IT website Slashdot, is well known for repeatedly posting the same stories. Most readers no longer even comment on this â€” or even notice. I am therefore keep an online record of the worst examples . (more…)

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Guy Kawasaki’s blog numbers do not add up

Posted by Graeme in Internet at 10:14 am on Sunday, 28 January 2007

There is something that does not really stack up about the numbers in Guy Kawasaki’s review of his first year of blogging. (more…)

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Ten effects of DRM

Posted by Graeme in Economics,Internet,Software at 1:11 pm on Saturday, 27 January 2007

For those who do not know, DRM is the technology that prevents users from taking copies of various types of videos, audio and even written material in electronic form. It is an abbreviation of Digital Rights Management â€“ and its your rights they are managing. (more…)

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I baked a site

Posted by Graeme in Internet at 6:49 am on Monday, 22 January 2007

My most successful website, Moneyterms used to run on WordPress. I have found it linked to as an example of WordPress running something other than a blog. However things changed. (more…)

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WordPress plugin: Slug Trimmer

Posted by Graeme in Wordpress at 9:10 am on Saturday, 15 July 2006

I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that look-something-like-this-and-are-far-too-long so I wrote a little plugin that shortens post slugs more intelligently than simply truncating them.
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New site

Posted by Graeme in Business & Investment,Internet at 7:56 am on Tuesday, 4 July 2006

I have decided that I should blog about investment on a separate site.

The new site is The Strategy Blog. I intend to put a fair amount of work into it – have a lot of ideas that simply do not fit into any of my other sites and it seems a shame to waste them.

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WordPress theme: Red Drop

Posted by Graeme in Wordpress at 11:30 am on Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Red Drop is a red (surprisingly!) WordPress theme with drop down menus. (more…)

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Bad modelling

Posted by Graeme in Internet at 6:52 am on Sunday, 12 February 2006

A flawed analysis of trends in the number of blogs, and the increase in the number of spam blogs, has lead people to think that the number of non-spam blogs is falling. In fact the growth trends remain strong. (more…)

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