If you’ve ever been around a blogger while they’re checking their email, you’ve undoubtedly heard the occasional groan, which is then followed by a, ”Why! WHY would I want to write about that?!!?” or a disgruntled, “Did you even READ my blog?!”Why the groaning and complaining?
BITCH:TECH
30 Jul 2009 09:30 GMT
BlogHer 2009, the conference dedicated to female bloggers and the companies that want to market to them, went off in Chicago last weekend. After spending some time reading accounts of the experience on blogs and Twitter, one thing has become overwhelmingly clear: BlogHer has turned into a marketing orgy, which is resulting in formerly normal, sane women turning into swag hungry monsters.
BITCH:TECH
29 Jul 2009 12:00 GMT
When gig touting social network, Songkick launched last month, music blog, The Quietus, suggested it would be perfect for, 'people who look[s] at a set of live listings and see[s] a chance to gather shit quality footage of your favourite band on a mobile phone'. With today's launch of
BITCH:TECH
28 Jul 2009 15:30 GMT
Feeling bored? Feeling like you’re going to impale yourself with a stapler, or perhaps just go out “for a coffee” and never return?Well, I have something for you to do that is less painful, won’t get you fired, and is certainly more entertaining than F5ing Twitter all afternoon. (Really!)
BITCH:CULTURE
28 Jul 2009 14:36 GMT
I was fortunate enough to be among the presenters at the Great Writing Conference at Bangor University last month. I spoke about using Twitter in the classroom while outside the annex blackbirds sang and gulls shrieked, which seemed entirely appropriate. Inside there were a number of furrowed brows but also a handful of nodding heads as I talked about the limited results of assigning 140 character stories and groped my way toward proposing assignments that might actually have something...
BITCH:TECH
23 Jul 2009 14:00 GMT
Everywhere you look there's swine flu. People having it, people being paranoid about it and people making videos about it and uploading them on Youtube. From the ridiculous (Egyptian swine flu schlagers anyone?) to the hilarious, viral swine flu wont at least make you sneeze.It's easy to get paranoid when everyone around you is talking about swine flu. When you overhear conversations on the bus between people who work in a pharmacies talking about how scared they are, when you s...
BITCH:TECH
22 Jul 2009 09:03 GMT
It's about damn time, Spotify! Earlier this week, Spotify placed some ads searching for US-based staff, confirming the rumors that they are planning to expand to the United States. Spotify is indeed planning on making the move to the US in late 2009.
BITCH:TECH
21 Jul 2009 22:36 GMT
Everything it would seem, has an iPhone application these days. Some of them are actually useful, some of them stink of companies jumping on the 'app' bangwagon and being pleased that they know what the word 'app' means, without actually helping you out.
BITCH:TECH
21 Jul 2009 10:00 GMT
Thursday night was The Europas - an awards ceremony congratulating the great and the good of the start-up industry for being awesome.
It was also the scene of some of the most full-on networking I’ve ever seen - at one point the speed at which Moo cards were being handed out made me wonder if they were going to search your bag at the end of the night, and dispose...
BITCH:TECH
11 Jul 2009 21:25 GMT
I spent a good few hours moving my iTunes library onto a different machine this morning (in fact, if anyone knows of a method that only takes five minutes, please don’t tell me). Anyway, because of the lack of technical gadgetry available and an impatience to just get it done, I used my USB key.
This was combined with a bit of a trawl through my old magazines, and a chance encounter with Giant Robot’s 'display thru April' edition. The story of ...
BITCH:TECH
08 Jul 2009 16:52 GMT