Google Insights: Fairies decline in popularity but trolls and goblins are on the rise

Every now and then I drop into “Google Insights” to take the pulse of popular opinion. Today I thought I’d see what the state of play is with the relative popularity of mythical creatures. Not surprisingly, fairies rule. But, not for much longer? While gnomes hold a steady baseline there seems to be a rising [...]

Are You Creative? Send Me Your Card!

I’m a sucker for business cards. Collecting them is like playing a grown-up game of swapsies. Even though we live in a digital age of networking, there’s still nothing quite like taking home a pretty little piece of card with someone’s details on it. So here’s a thing I’m going to do: If you are [...]

Google Contextual Ads Bring a Tinge of Irony to Apocalyptic Predictions

So I only just found out about the end of the world, too. So I checked in to judgementday2011.com – it was hard to focus on the facts with all those adverts offering me one last bite at life on earth: Errr …. Thank you, how very welcoming! Salvation or sushi? The choice is yours! [...]

My Five Most Popular Blog Posts of 2010

I have been writing this blog for nine months now, since it was born on the 5th May 2010. An average of 1000 visitors have passed through and hopefully found something worth reading. Reviewing the most popular posts of the last year has given me a few surprises. Here are the top five in order [...]

Blogging Friends: Spreading The Love

See that column on the bottom right? That’s my Blogroll. I wrote this as a static page but was so blown away as I pondered the qualities of my various blogging friends that I thought I’d make it a post, too. These are all people I know offline and I would like to introduce them [...]

Editorial Policies

At the end of the day I like robust editorial policies and I like being told when something is not up to scratch. I appreciate and aspire to a professional style.

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