The content you write on a dating site can have life-changing effects. JM Kearns devotes one third of his book Why Mr Right Can't Find You to online dating. He's a fan: he found his wife online. Kearns has some...
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Plastic Bag has it both ways
In his blog Plastic Bag, Tom Coates starts every topic with a super-long bit of link-text. That means every link is left-aligned and easy to skim-read. That's also smart. It's unusual to find a blog that doesn't spatter links through...
Poems for the Web Me-Too
Web 2.0 is a term that gets up people's noses, so I'm going to call 'it' Web Me-Too. You know what I mean. I am looking for poems that speak about Web Me-Too, and today, this one jumped out at...
Wiki your web and intranet guidelines
Nick Besseling outlines a process for developing web and intranet guidelines using a wiki. Obvious benefits are avoiding the 'style nazi' label, and getting staff involved and committed to standards—everywhere an issue, notoriously so in universities. Wikis were born for...
E-government horses for courses
E-government as a word has been around since about 1996, but there's no universal agreement about what it means. That's not surprising, because concepts of e-government vary considerably according to each country’s political system and internet coverage, and they are...