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My Van survey results are in…
Many thanks to the 41 folks who completed my survey. A synopsis of the results can be found at http://geoffjones.net/2006/04/10/the-vanspot-survey-results/
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Commentors and fair use
Thanks to Jyoti one of my blog commentors I found myself listening to this video on The Tube. Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes especially in the way he is fighting for sense in the copyright debates at the moment. The video seeks to explain why the Publishers Guild v Google fight to stop…
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Podcasting and The BBC
This is to me is pretty amazing. the BBC has released some figures on his podcasting trials. these have revealed that in Feb 2006 there were 329,888 downloads of the Radio4 programme “Today’s 8.10 interview”. Note that the Radio4 reach is 10million per week (and I would guess a middle aged audience profile) so the…
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One day in the life of my blog.
Yesterday I inserted the code that Statcounter gave me so that I can track site visitors. Tons of interesting information and graphs.This pie chart shows the percentage of visitors who stayed for varying lengths of time. Visit Length 25 Less than 5 secs 2 From 5 secs to 30 secs 4 From 30 secs to…
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Please take my quick survey!
Click here to take our Online Survey Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not recorded on the page. Ellee Seymour Original displayed time: 10:36 PM It would be helpful to have an explanotory sentence or two outlining the purpose of…
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UK Single party rules, OK?
Wow, what a great opposition we have here in the UK. If this comment by Spy Blog on the Samizdata post “We have not yet begun to fight right”, is correct.““I still can’t quite figure out what happened, but am starting to think the timing is a matter of Tory electoral and media strategy.” Has…
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MySpace statistics
Steve Rubel has some great statistics on Myspace that he received from his work colleague Marilynn Mobley. Fascinating that the take up of over 61million (Yep thats the whole population of the UK!) is as close to 50/50 Male/Female as you are likely to get. Be also interesting to know how many of the 1.4…
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Childhood Experiences and Adult Lives
Just received this invitation from Suzanne. One of her post-doc students needs help with a survey on the way we experienced our childhood and the impact it can have on our current adult lives.:-Hello my name is Wendy and I am a trainee clinical psychologist currently in my third year at the University of East…
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MP communications..
Apparently I’m the 162nd person, according to Hear from your MP ,who is wanting David Howarth to have a “more genuine sort of interaction than just being sent newsletters.” What we really need is a bulletin board like Grant Shapps MP runs here for his constituents in Welwyn Hatfield. They have had 1564 posts by…
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Do you like living in a democracy?
Well, enjoy it while you can, because it might not last much longer if the UK government get their way according to an article here. The “Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill” is going through Parliament virtually on the nod. This bill gives Ministers and their lackeys the ability to amend, replace, or repeal existing legislation…