Author: Ben Werdmuller

This service checks whether your website is banned in China. Clever idea.

After my thoughts yesterday about web spyware, this post about email spam caught my eye. The author owns his own email domain, so creates a new email address he signs up to; Company A gets companya@domain, Service B gets serviceb@domain, etc. These email addresses are unique and never shared with anyone but the service. So…

I love stuff like this. Esquire sent 250 napkins to various writers across America, and got nearly 100 of them back, from established novelists to first-time authors. Some of them are fantastic. There was a collaborative art project on the web around five years ago where people sent notebooks out, which were then filled a…

There’s been a flurry of activity over the last few days over MyBlogLog, and specifically, whether it secretly tracks advertising clicks. Now owned by Yahoo, the allegation is that the tool is being covertly used to optimise their contextual search product against Google’s Adsense (which we run on the sidebars here on Elgg.net). Techcrunch called…