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After a few months of experimentation with Micro-Blogging – specifically the microblogging website, Twitter, I still havne’t reached any definitive conclusions regarding the usefulness of the medium. I have, however, reached one very important conclusion: Twitter is Over Capacity.
It seems as though Twitter has become something of a victim of it’s own success: so many [...]

A lot of my family and friends might have realised at some point in the past month or two that I’ve quit Facebook. Those who I speak to in person – i.e. my actual friends – will know my reasons why. Those of you who I haven’t spoken to, or the interested web visitor can [...]

I know what you’re going to think “Rob, you’re always hammering the BBC, I actually quite like them! Their coverage of Glastonbury is boss, for a start (sic)!” – so before we get in to this, I will come out and say that I enjoy much of the BBC’s coverage, to the point where I [...]

I feel like I haven’t invented nearly enough new words recently, so today I was particularly pleased when I was watching some on demand TV online that was rudely interrupted by… a buffercopter.
Buffercopter (Buf·er·cop·ter)
Noun

The spinning circular symbol which displays when an online streamed video is loading, or ‘buffering’;
A person, thing or object which prevents a [...]

Just a quick note to apologise profusely for my last two (or more) posts: blogging about blogging is an irredeemably dull, yet constantly mined seam.
I will try to avoid doing it in future.
There are even whole blogs devoted to blogging about blogging. If one is not careful, in one fell swoop, you could disappear into [...]

Those of you who read my piece the other day might have gleaned from it one fact: I’m maddened constantly by the fact that its difficult to get any sort of respect for running a blog. Simply put, in many circles, the word ‘blogger’ is very much meant pejoratively.
One of the reasons for this is [...]

Finally, the BBC has started to give bloggers some credit, in a roundabout way, as this afternoons prime ministerial aide shenanigans indicates. One particular highlight of today was watching the BBC News Channel where ‘Guido Fawkes’ more than held his own while the BBC news presenter repeatedly made ridiculous statements such as:
Yes but, you bloggers [...]

A few months ago, the reactionary British press (The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph to be precise) got hold of some really inconclusive pictures of Kate Middleton ‘allegedly’ talking on a mobile phone while driving. At some point, we talked here about those pictures, and said that they were, well, inconclusive.
In any case, during [...]

I’ve just had a birthday.
As Saturday dawned, I awoke to the slightly strange feeling that I was, as my friend Charlie so unnervingly puts it, “a quarter of a Century old”. I had turned 25.
The trouble with being 25 is that it places you in a very much in-between bracket: you’re still younger than everyone [...]

I can write about pretty much anything these days. I can even contradict myself wholly and unashamedly across multiple platforms.
I decided to Google “I can write about anything” and the first thing that came up was one of those articles that can only be described as a complete waste of time, yet was marginally funny. [...]