Posts Tagged: Internet

Guardian Gag Removed

In what many are calling a victory for free speech and social media Carter-Ruck have backed down and removed their injunction against The Guardian. From The Guardian: The existence of a previously secret injunction against the media by oil traders Trafigura can now be revealed. Within the past hour Trafigura’s legal firm, Carter-Ruck, has withdrawnContinue Reading ›

Guardian Gagged From Reporting Parliament

Yes really… From The Guardian: The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights. Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented fromContinue Reading ›

Monetising Twitter Trending Topics

I don’t like or normally use the term “monetise”, but it is the big question hanging over Twitter; how are they gonna make money from this thing? We saw last week that Twitter have secured another found of funding described as “significant”, and so we assume that at some point these investors are going toContinue Reading ›

Is SEO Bullshit? Discuss.

Sam Brown recently published an interesting post on the value and merit of SEO: Why I think SEO is bullshit – in which Sam says: For me, it’s all about my personal brand, Sam Brown is who I am and who I want to be known as. I do not want to be known as thatContinue Reading ›

The Matrix Has You

In the words of Neo “whoa”. I can’t believe it’s ten years since The Matrix was released. I can remember seeing the “What Is The Matrix?” teaser trailers and knowing from those that I had to see this film. But even the brilliant teasers and trailers couldn’t prepare me for just how cool this movie wasContinue Reading ›

Optimisation Prime

Recently I decided to take this blog a little more seriously, and part of that has been to see where my visitors were coming from and to try and increase my visitor numbers. Google Analytics reports that 57% of the visitors to david hughes.org arrived from a search engine: That’s a HUGE proportion from Google,Continue Reading ›