Ryan MacMillan

Those well-known web2.0 mavens and digital leets over at The City of London Corporation today switched on their wireless mesh, promising wireless access anywhere within the Square Mile. Obviously, it’s not free, though, don’t be silly. What would the point of that be, eh?
What is it with the UK and charging for wifi in public [...]

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Picking up the baton of Mat’s metrics theme, a Beeb article asks whether we need to reassess completely how we measure internet traffic. The net metrics folks over at comScore have pointed out that a minority of “hardcore” (because it’s closely related to porn, except not at all) web users regularly clear all cookies from [...]

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Has anyone got a good metric for assessing blogs? I’m thinking about something that combines (say) recency and frequency of posts, comments per post (or total comments) and inbound links. I think that should cover it. But how?
To know that, I’m going to have to set an objective or two. Watch this space.

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The latest development in the inexorable convergence of all technologies into a single, faintly sinister biotech wetware unit that we will likely have implanted into our retinas by unfeeling bureaucrats at the “Human Upgrade Center” is the news from Japan that shortly you will be able to pay for your Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets [...]

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This morning, the Today programme reported the death of 30 second spot (again).

The story trailed Lord Saatchi’s speech (also trailed here in the FT). The Today piece carried this great quote:
In the thirty seconds that it takes to watch a conventional TV ad, Lord Saatchi suggests, a teenager like Darryl might take a phone call, [...]

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