Internet News
May 19, 2010
UKOM, the UK Online Measurement organisation, has compiled its figures for the Internet usage of Britons for the month of April 2010, comparing it to April 2007.
And the headline news is that Brits now spend 65% more time online. A total of 884 million hours, in fact, as opposed to 536 million hours three years ago.
The time spent ...
UK Internet use up 65% since 2007
by Darren Allan
December 3, 2009
A survey conducted by the National Literacy Trust claims that children should be encouraged to blog and use sites like Facebook to help improve their literacy.
Of the 3000 school children involved in the research, 56% had a social networking profile of some sort, and 24% maintained their own blog.
These kids rated their own writing abilities higher than those ...
Blogging kids are more literate
by Darren Allan
October 6, 2009
When is a blog not a blog? When it's a thinly disguised advert for a product, that's when; something the Federal Trade Commission in the States has sat up and taken notice of.
The amount of freebies advanced to popular blogging reviewers can certainly throw question marks on their editorial integrity, particularly when in some cases it isn't just ...
FTC turns screw on blog blaggers in the US
by Darren Allan
