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Should you block ads on the Internet?

For my Project 52 post, I thought I’d write about a much-commented and dug story on Ars Technica makes the case that Ad Blockers are “devastating” professional websites.
My argument is simple: blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of [...]

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Don’t prosecute the messenger

I subscribe to the Google Public Policy Blog and get updates every few days. Today, I got sent a story about a case in Italy where three Google executives have been prosecuted for a video of an autistic student being bullied at school.
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then [...]

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Unions and Twitter

The open, conversational nature of social networking offers the perfect elixir to turn this around.
Check out my first Media140 blog post, discussing how union leaders can promote themselves, their unions and their activities socially using Twitter.

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Don’t get Internode

Having recently moved house, I decided to ditch Optus and go with the 50gb Internode ADSL2+ Naked Plan.
Internode promised that it would take a month to install, but they would send the modem and it would be pre-configured, so I could just plug it in and start surfing.
After waiting for a month for the technician [...]

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Young people don’t blog

For my Project 52 post, I thought I’d comment about a recent Pew report has come to my attention via DownloadSquad that says that young people are blogging less:
Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as blogging [...]

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