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I tweet, therefore I am

Thinking about jumping onto this bandwagon. But where will it all end? So might read my inaugural ‘tweet’ – by definition: an answer to the question ‘what are you doing?’ in 140 characters or fewer –...

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Is it a feathered sky-dwelling nest-builder? Is it an aerodynamic...

Are you struggling to come up with a new nugget of corporate gobbledegook? Could your report benefit from some indecipherable doublespeak? Are you floundering from a lack of filler? Never fear....

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iPad 2.0 could herald the paperless office (at last)

Printer manufacturers must be getting a bit twitchy about the iPad. Or if they’re not, they should be – because it could well make a serious dent in their profits, writes Rob Ashton. Generally, I’m in...

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Oxford English Dictionary to go online only (probably)

The next edition of The Oxford English Dictionary probably won’t appear in print, according to the Oxford University Press (OUP), the dictionary’s owner. Instead, it is likely that the third edition...

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Censorship? They’ve got an app for that

Apple has been awarded a patent in the US for a device to filter out ‘inappropriate’ language from text messages (otherwise known as ‘sexting’, apparently). Essentially, it is a way for parents to...

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Online overload: we shall overcome?

Our brains are being re-wired and overloaded with every click of the mouse, according to Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Our innate love of the new has...

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Grammarly review: does Grammarly work?

Most of us have felt the limitations of the typical grammar- or spell-check at some point. And who hasn’t stared in bewilderment at one of Word’s seemingly random squiggly lines and cried: ‘What do...

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Where people look online

Recent eyetracker research reveals that users of news websites look at the headlines first, rather than the images. The study, called Eyetrack III, from The Poynter Institute in the US, looks at how...

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From LO to LOL

It is 40 years ago, almost to the day, that the internet made its first connection. On 29 October 1969, a computer in the University of California connected with one several hundred miles away in the...

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iPad 2.0 could herald the paperless office (at last)

Printer manufacturers must be getting a bit twitchy about the iPad. Or if they’re not, they should be – because it could well make a serious dent in their profits, writes Rob Ashton. Generally, I’m in...

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I tweet, therefore I am

Thinking about jumping onto this bandwagon. But where will it all end? So might read my inaugural ‘tweet’ – by definition: an answer to the question ‘what are you doing?’ in 140 characters or fewer –...

View Article

Is it a feathered sky-dwelling nest-builder? Is it an aerodynamic...

Are you struggling to come up with a new nugget of corporate gobbledegook? Could your report benefit from some indecipherable doublespeak? Are you floundering from a lack of filler? Never fear....

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From LO to LOL

It is 40 years ago, almost to the day, that the internet made its first connection. On 29 October 1969, a computer in the University of California connected with one several hundred miles away in the...

View Article


iPad 2.0 could herald the paperless office (at last)

Printer manufacturers must be getting a bit twitchy about the iPad. Or if they’re not, they should be – because it could well make a serious dent in their profits, writes Rob Ashton. Generally, I’m in...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

iPad 2.0 could herald the paperless office (at last)

Printer manufacturers must be getting a bit twitchy about the iPad. Or if they’re not, they should be – because it could well make a serious dent in their profits, writes Rob Ashton. Generally, I’m in...

View Article


Oxford English Dictionary to go online only (probably)

The next edition of The Oxford English Dictionary probably won’t appear in print, according to the Oxford University Press (OUP), the dictionary’s owner. Instead, it is likely that the third edition...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Where people look online

Recent eyetracker research reveals that users of news websites look at the headlines first, rather than the images. The study, called Eyetrack III, from The Poynter Institute in the US, looks at how...

View Article


Censorship? They’ve got an app for that

Apple has been awarded a patent in the US for a device to filter out ‘inappropriate’ language from text messages (otherwise known as ‘sexting’, apparently). Essentially, it is a way for parents to...

View Article

Online overload: we shall overcome?

Our brains are being re-wired and overloaded with every click of the mouse, according to Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Our innate love of the new has...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Grammarly review: does Grammarly work?

Most of us have felt the limitations of the typical grammar- or spell-check at some point. And who hasn’t stared in bewilderment at one of Word’s seemingly random squiggly lines and cried: ‘What do...

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