(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I suppose it was my own fault. There was an M&M lying on the table by my new and very orange Lenovo ...

(Photo credit: thms.nl ) I occasionally dip into Sitemeter, the natty little analytics widget I don't use very much, to see what ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's been one of those weeks. First we had the tremor from the Qeshm earthquake and then Google...

(Photo credit: MarkyBon ) McNabb's Law of Clicks applies principally to book promotion, but I find it extends equally well to o...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I hadn't realised this, mostly because I'm not really into films to the point where I only...

(Photo credit: ST33VO ) It's been going the rounds the past couple of days, with nearly half a million visits knocked up in...

(Photo credit: carrierdetect ) It's been a hectic week, hence the lack of posts. The ArabNet Dubai Digital Summit sucked d...

It starts tomorrow - ArabNet's Dubai Digital Summit - three days of conference, workshop, developer competition, roundtable and other...

It's not often you find me parroting one of Spot On's announcements on the blog, but that's just what I'm about to do. T...

Téléphone ancien (Photo credit: zigazou76 ) The Twelfth ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications is currently taking pl...

Photo credit: Wikipedia They are the best of times, they are the worst of times. The Industrial Revolution changed the world and ...

Gulf News filed a Reuters report today on moves to improve Lebanon's internet access. The headline alone made me laugh, "Leban...

Image by Toban Black via Flickr Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA to you, mate) has issued a warning alerting people to the fact t...

Back in the late nineties, I travelled to Beirut in the company of Microsoft's Middle East marketing manager to manage the opening of t...

Parental Guidance Warning. This video is icky. It's like a helter skelter, this social media business. And there are times when you mig...

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French president Nicolas Sarkozy has come out and said he wants a regulated web - "You need to hear our limits, our red lines" he...

Image by noobbaru via Flickr There’s been a lot of talk in the UK about super-injunctions, triggered by the seeming inability of anyone in ...

Image via Wikipedia There's going to be a pachyderm* in the room at this year's Arab Media Forum 2011, the event that sparked the ve...

Image by Andreas-photography via Flickr The answer's probably yes. The recent massive facepalmohmigodicantbelievetheydidthat scandal ...