A little while ago I wrote about how easy it was to launch a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint against a website and how writers and other creatives could use this to get websites that were stealing their content removed from the Google index. (And, if you’re not on
I previously wrote about the excitement around WebAssembly and, having seen many technologies like this come and go in the past, my analysis of why WebAssembly might be a bad idea. In summary, it’s not that it is technologically bad – it’s simply that I don’t see a space for
If you’ve worked for any serious amount of time in eCommerce or digital marketing, you’ll have come across a client who wants to copy functionality or design from another company. They probably also think it’s easy to do this. (True story, I once had a customer push me aside to
I’ve used “The Banana Experiment” as an example of the dangers of “group-think” and the “that’s how we’ve always done it here” mentality many, many times. I’m not 100% sure where I heard it originally, or if the experiment itself actually really happened. I don’t think either of those things
Throughout my career in digital marketing, there were a few rules that I always held to be immutable. One of them was this – If you can automate it, it’s probably SPAM. This rule steered me the right way on many occasions when tempting shortcuts were offered to me. I’d
My ruthless cull of domains continues! Now that all of my books, short stories, and movies are listed on this site I’m dropping more of my niche-specific domains and redirecting all of the traffic here. In some instances, the timeline for this is short, the expiry for the domains coming
I find a strange joy in unearthing things I’ve made and forgotten about. I’m vain enough not to see anything cringe-worthy in Googling myself and as I’ve been collecting and collating all of my various online personas into this single website, I’ve been quite astonished at the number of things
If you haven’t discovered WebAssembly yet, it’s a pretty exciting technology that allows you to code in a range of languages (C++, Rust, and Typescript most notably) then compile your code into a WASM file that can run in all popular web browsers. Because the code is compiled it runs
It’s funny the things you find lurking in your email inbox when you’re having a bit of a clean up/purge. Today I found this… … a fake comic book cover designed by the inimitable Terry Cooper for use as promo material for The Black Room. It’s one of those great
Google has revealed that it now has a specific penalty that it applies to sites that receive repeated upheld DCMA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) takedown requests. In other words, it has a special button it can press to kill off sites hosting pirated content. According to Google, sites hit with