Been Away

I have been away for a few days over the Easter weekend. Normal service will be resumed today, hopefully…

E-mail is under-used in politics

From the BBC: The dramatic rise in home internet access has failed to plug the communication gap between politicians and citizens, a new survey has found. The survey, commissioned by Telewest Business, found that only 1% of people have contacted their MP via e-mail. Nearly half of the 3,000 people interviewed had home net access … Keep reading

Quoting Whole Posts

From Scbole: Diego wants off of my link blog Diego doesn’t want me to republish his blog posts. So far he’s the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe so that I don’t see their posts anymore and am not tempted to link to … Keep reading

Mobiles and Petrol Stations

I’ve always wondered about this… UK professor concludes: cellphones don’t cause gas station fires Maybe MythBusters isn’t a solid enough scientific authority for Connecticut state senator Andreas Stillman, who wants to ban the use of cellphones when you’re filling up your car, but a professor from University of Kent in the UK has decided to … Keep reading

Growing Readership

Some good advice from Susan Mernit: How to grow your (blogging) audience The traffic to this blog has gone up in the past three months, and it’s surely at least in part a result of some things I consciously put into practice. So, in the interests of transparency and sharing, here are some best practices: … Keep reading