I use Ad-Block Plus. I have done since I first heard of it, a couple of years ago. I think it’s brilliant. I think ads on the Internet are annoying and intrusive and that they fundamentally don’t work — I either don’t look at them, or I want them out of my face, or I resent the bandwidth they’re sucking up. The
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By complete coincidence, I came across two new visualisation tools in my morning reading today. The first is TouchGraph, a Java application that creates a graph showing the relationships between any web address and the rest of the Web. It does this by grabbing the list of related sites from Google – the same list you’d get by You’re probably already very familiar with the Ad-Block extension for Firefox. Now there’s a new kid on the block, Tubestop. Tubestop prevents YouTube’s brand new overlay ads from spoiling your videos. It works by substituting the player on Youtube’s pages (which inserts ads) with the one that appears embedded in web pages (which Pure coincidence, perhaps, but there were two articles in my feed reader today arguing that there’s a need to avoid too much Search Engine Optimisation. From Dharmesh Shah: The Perils of Pandering to Google. And from Ken Yarmosh: The trouble with ranking highly on Google is that any old riff-raff might From the Met Office 2007 weather summaries page for July: Rainfall generally well above average, with England & Wales recording over double their average July rainfall, with some stations in the Worcestershire area recording over four times their average July rainfall. Sunshine well below average across the north-east of Scotland, but slightly above average across Aussie PR bloggers Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins have released the second edition of their e-book about social media, now updated to cover Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook and Second Life. As previously, it’s a free PDF download. It’s a good read and covers some lesser-known (in the Northern Hemisphere) examples of brands and organisations using social media to |             | |||
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