Kindle 2 – online magazines nil
News of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has just leaked out, causing tremors of excitement amongst those of us who’d rather do anything than our day job. The new ‘wirelss reading device’ (think what would happen if...
View ArticleAre we grunting online?
Reading University researchers have developed a computer programme that has identified the words “I”, “we”, and the numbers “1”, “2” and “3” as some of the oldest still in use. With them I could,...
View ArticleTwitter – this summer's chart topper?
Does anyone remember The Birdie Song? The original version was released in the 1960s, but in the 1980s a UK band called The Tweets got to No. 2 in the charts with an instrumental version accompanied...
View ArticleThe 'strikethrough' as a visual cue – and maybe hypnosis thrown in
I received a marketing email the other day which used ’strikethroughs’ in the text. For a second I thought someone had just pressed ’send’ on an early proof, but I quickly figured out that the...
View ArticleThose who can teach
Sometimes it’s worth stating the obvious because so often the obvious gets overlooked, particularly in the current climate. We’re all off looking for the cash cow, the life raft, the new horizon, the...
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