Being busy with work means I'm not really thinking about the book at the moment. And it's no bad thing, having time to breathe away from it. The first thing I intend to do when I get a bit of time is to revisit a book I've already read but feel it might help me...

If like me you've heard of TikTok but don't know much about it, there's a great article that explains it: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok It answers the following: What is TikTok? How does it work? How do people get views, likes and followers on there? How are...

If you want your site to rank higher in Google it's a good idea to understand a bit about SEO, which I define here as: SEO / search engine optimisation – the practice of trying to improve a webpage’s or website’s organic ranking (ie, not paid for) in search engine...

I haven't forgotten about my book but it is temporarily on the back-burner because of work commitments, which is probably not a bad thing as I'd got to a point with it that needed further thought, reflection and clarity. I picked up a book that I'd already once, which...

As I'm sure you'd noticed, journalism is changing. Like certain other industries, it's been slow to adapt to the internet's disruption. Then there's the problem of fake news, compounded by non-news and too much news generally. In response, there's Tortoise, "the...

Wherever you go in the world, there's a service you can use based on a brilliant idea: Touchnote lets you send personalised postcards featuring your own photo (or one of their designs), then you add your message and they print the card and post it anywhere the world....

I've written before about the three layers of the internet: The top layer, the 'tip of the iceberg', which includes all the famous the sites everyone online knows about and, basically, any content that can be accessed via hyperlinks Then there's the deep web, which...

Want to be a freelance writer or editor? One piece of advice: Get used to working with different content management systems/CMSs. In my experience, they're all pretty much the same, some are more robust than others and some more intuitive. Whether it's WordPress,...

There's another Alexa, also owned by Amazon, that for some is more useful than the one that provides assistance with setting alarms, pressing a button somewhere at home, or searching on Google. Alexa.com is a different beast. It reports on web traffic and ranks sites...

AI is amazing and already used in so many ways. But in many cases, it's not quite up to the job. Take, for example, the translation app that you can use with your phone's camera to scan, 'read' and translate text in a foreign language to 'read': I'm not exactly sure...