Dive into the archives.
- Number 10’s new site misses the 2.0 mark
The new Downing Street website attempts to mask its lack of interactivity with a web 2.0 mask. It really doesn’t work.
- The big kick-off
The Football League has kicked off – but there’s still a week for you to join us all before the Completetosh.com League of Scoundrels gets going.
- Ben Hammersley joins Wired UK
I’m delighted to see Ben Hammersley’s joining Wired UK as deputy editor. It’s a great move, both for him and for David Rowan, ex of the Guardian and currently Jewish Chronicle editor, who’s going to edit the title. My times working with Ben, both in print and on the web, have been among the most [...]
- Anyone fancy a game of fantasy football?
I’m hoping both Completetosh.com readers will join me in the blog’s brilliant fantasy football league – the League of Scoundrels – launched today.
- SEO: we’re all at it
Guardian journalists are getting hip to the SEO jive, oh yes.
- From the archives… Google’s first mention
The guardian.co.uk archive reveals Google first crops up in the Observer in early 1999. That same John Naughton column has some perceptive thoughts on Yahoo, as well…
- The BBC goes a’trampling
Three unconnected episodes of bad behaviour from the BBC this week highlight the importance of Britain’s rumbling public service content debate.
- The fragile web we weave
Let’s not, shall we agree, ever say again that the net is resilient, or that it routes around damage, or other such platitudes? Statcounter, which provides details of the modest metrics round this parish, is down tonight after a transformer blew up thousands of miles away in Houston, Texas. That’s why things may be slow [...]
- Spammers strangling Craigslist?
From Techdirt:
“Random text is added to each spam message to fool Craigslist’s duplicate message detector. IP proxy sites are used to post from a wide range of IP addresses. E-mail addresses for reply are Gmail accounts conveniently created by Jiffy Gmail Creator (“Who Else Wants to Create Unlimited Gmail Accounts in Seconds Flat Without Breaking [...]
- Where we find the time
Clay Shirky has produced the perfect summary of why life’s so hard for media companies used to being only OK
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