What might happen to the pre-2010 posts on this blog
Share Google will cease to support FTP publishing on Blogger on May 1, extending the previous deadline of March 26 by a few weeks. As this blog’s posts between 2006 and 2009 were done on Blogger, it...
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Beyond Branding Blog removed from Blogger today
Share As of tonight, the Beyond Branding Blog, where I first cut my teeth blogging, is no more. The posts are still there, but no further comments can be entered on to the site. The nearly four years...
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Hints of Google’s privacy misbehaviours in 2007
Share I did my last edits to this blog’s pages that had resided on the old Blogger service today, before decommissioning them from the service. After today (in theory, since the updating stalled twice...
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McAfee did good: a software company that didn’t jerk me around in ’10
Share A new computer arrived at the office, Firefox 3·6·13 was installed on it. Boom goes the dynamite (thanks, Jen—since I watch very little television I had no idea of this reference). It wasn’t the...
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Rupert Murdoch has it in for Google more than I ever could
Share Monika Flückiger/Creative Commons And people thought I was de-Googling my life or being mean to Google. What about Mr Murdoch and his entire firm? We all know his comments about how he wanted...
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Facebook hates The Scotsman, and other xenophobic bugs
Share Some very interesting errors on the internet today. Facebook blocked an innocent link about the price of electricity in Scotland, from The Scotsman, because it was deemed ‘abusive or spammy’....
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The pre-blocked Google Plus Circle
Share I might be Google-sceptic, but I’m not so daft as to risk clients and the Medinge Group, both groups having various things in my Google account, opened either in the days when Google was not...
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Should I remove Feedburner?
I’m wondering whether it’s worth carrying on with Feedburner. Over the last few years I’ve rid our sites of Facebook gadgets—that means if you “Facebook liked” something here, you’d have to go through...
View ArticleNice try, Marissa Mayer, but no conversion
I had a chuckle at Marissa Mayer saying that Google results are worse because the web is worse. As I’ve shown with a site:lucire.com search, which is a good one since our site pre-dates Google (just),...
View ArticleThe newer the tech, the slower the site
So far I’ve had two people feed back about the site redesign and it’s positive. One friend in the US noticed that the site ran slower for him than before, which is very astute of him: he’s absolutely...
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