This is an interesting little article about a new product from Mozilla Labs for Firefox- it allows you to grab tour personal contact data from various web services and sources, and then keep it in a r…
This post is based on some comments I made on another blog recently - dealing with the question of whether using Social media turns us in to rude bumpkins. Whilst it's true that the decision to parti…
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
Many, many moons ago, and I mean in the last century, I had a version of Linux running on one of my PCs, and lo, it was good. If you liked command lines and stuff like that, as the PC concerned wasn'…
And I'm sure that Twitter will not be doing anything else - at least not yet - https://joepritchard.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Twitter.pngwith their code when they're making the Twittersphere sa…
Or...yet another reason to watch who you befriend.... Facebook attempts to be what's known in the online world as a 'Closed Garden' - interactions with the rest of the Internet are restricted somewhat…
A short while ago I wrote a couple of posts about the issues around Real time Search (How important is Real Time Searchand Google and the Dead Past) - that is, Internet based searches that include Int…
I would say that I'm something of an 'online person' I ran a Bulletin Board 'the hard way' in the late 1980s / early 1990s using a phoneline, a modem and a PC at home, and have been on the Internet in…
Regular readers of my 'jottings' might recall a recent post of mine in which Idebated the value of Tweeted Wisdom. Always one to consider returning to the scene of past musings, I was today motivated…
When I started in IT, I encountered a program called 'The Last One'). It was a menu-driven application generator that allowed a non-programmer to specify the sort of system they wanted (within a limi…