Campaign launches to protect right to link

As sharing content on the internet raises questions of plagiarism, a campaign protecting the freedom to link has launched today

Trust me, I’m a Doctor: The rise of cyberchondria

With the increase of health-related searches on Google and the introduction of web-based diagnosis websites, Witch Tech looks at the rise of cyberchondria in face of free information and asks if self-diagnosis is ever productive

Musings | Confessions of networked shopaholics

With a recent increase in the number of online social shopping networks, Jenny Williams asks if online shopping can ever compare with a Saturday afternoon shopping spree.

Musings | Twitterature

Twitter is becoming synonymous with controversy. Don’t worry I’m not going to launch into a rant about Twitter democracy, media oustings or even gossip about Stephen Fry threatening to quit Twitter. I want to return to the greatest thing about Twitter: 140 characters.
There is great skill in being able to communicate concisely. Twitterature: The World’s Greatest [...]

Personal vs virtual: The rise of virtual assistants

According to the London Evening Standard, VAs are the new PAs. As the recession as taken hold, hundreds of people have shaken off their power suits and adopted their pjs – working at home as a virtual assistants.
ER Virtual Assistants claim the top eight reasons to hire a virtual assistant are:

Your Virtual Assistant can relieve you [...]

Musings | Internet killed the trivia star

With the internet’s wealth of information at our fingertips, Jenny Williams asks if Wikipedia has killed the concept of general knowledge?