So the Write Factor competition over at the STV website trundles on. Today I wrote about Scotland and its attitude to drink and drinking. It’s always struck me as a bit strange that the nation is so very fond of – and good at – one of the very things that is killing it from […]
Why have sex when you can blog?
Apparently social media has overtaken porn as the number one activity on the internet. It’s one of those frequently quoted facts that you can’t actually find the original source for. Or at least I couldn’t, and how would they know anyway?But there are bright bloggers beavering away all over the place on all manner of […]
Would you put your money where your mouse is?
The Internet is a thing of wonder – we can make friends, learn stuff, do splendid bits of shopping, mildly spy on our exs, then express ourselves a little. And it’s powerful too. Foolish posters lost their jobs and their loves by blabbing about stuff when they should have kept schtum.Poor naive Gary Mckinnon didn’t […]
Click management
Remember when click-click used to be the sound of knitting needles? No. Me neither. I’ve always hated that kind of thing, never had the patience for it. Nonetheless, the latest clicking chorus is a fairly new feature only really heard in the last decade or so. But it’s getting louder and I’m not sure how […]