About a month ago I blogged about the possibility of Twitter becoming a viable commercial venture for its owners. Back then I surmised that Twitter wanted it to be so, as did its venture capital backers who had pumped millions of dollars into the micro blog site with a view to recouping profit.
But I wasn’t [...]

There have been awards for the best blog for some time online, normally generated by those who are fuelling the explosion. However, with the growth of MySpace and other social networking sites, blog awards are now hitting areas of the mainstream.
The sector in question is (unsurprisingly) the music industry and the BT Digital Music Awards [...]

This year Big Brother rolled out its uber-trashy all-seeing televisual eyes amidst a welter of warnings - ‘kiss goodbye to your summer’ cried everyone from Heat magazine to BB’s own increasingly cartoonish Davina McCall. There’s a grain of truth in that, at least for those of us who can’t be bothered putting up an [...]

Lately I’ve been spreading myself all over the internet, in the same way as Jonathan Ross is spread across the TV and radio - admittedly without the wit, fame or eyeball-worrying collection of clothes. As I’ve said in previous entries, I’m a big fan of sites like 43things and last.fm, which are busy either recording [...]

OK so there’s been a lot of news lately about Myspace:

Firebombing!
Police stings!
Rupert Murdoch!

For those of you unaware (i.e. those of you who aren’t as young and cool as you think you are), Myspace is a ’social networking’ site that basically reproduces the grown-up web in a microcosm of epileptic-fit inducing flashing backgrounds, pictures of teenagers [...]