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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about the simple answer to guessing the Web’s most used passwords, free analytics and tracking for your Web site and how sharing documents online can boost search engine results and win business.

You can also learn about the easiest way to follow your company on Twitter, the tiny swing to Bing and the big Buzz from Google, the only worldwide search engine based in Egypt and how Obama rallied opposition to fight the enemies of Net neutrality.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue find out how to sell your energy, sell your skills, cut printing costs, earn money with your car and save money with free messages and free software every day.

You can also learn about a transistor downsized to a single atom and a desktop 3D modelling machine that’s as easy to use as your printer. Discover how to enhance your Web site and boost its links with a shapely word cloud and promote it with online articles at the top twenty Web directories.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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Object Oriented Programming represents a paradigm shift away from the traditional modular programming methodologies that have prevailed since the advent of computers. While today’s computer scientists are undoubtedly clever chaps, the intrinsic concepts underpinning Object Oriented Programming were actually considered almost 2,500 years in the dialogues of Plato!

Now, it is extremely doubtful as to whether the architects of Object Orientated Programming (OOP) were aware of these prior concepts, as the stereotypical computer scientist is not normally renowned for his classical education. However, even if they weren’t aware, there does seem to be a remarkable correlation between the thought processes of Plato and the later day software architects, even separated across the millennia.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue find out how to win a Picasso for your wall or a £5,000 cash prize for your school, get a short URL for your Web site and learn a lot more about your visitors.

You can also learn how to monitor your Web site every five minutes with a new free service, find out why your online sales are 42 per cent more likely to grow when you buy advertising on Bing, save the Amazon rain forest by switching search engines and get ready for 10 times faster Wi-Fi.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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The Internet Monthly is a podcast dedicated to the latest news and developments in the internet, produced for Zen Internet by myself, and subsequently syndicated on my blog. However, things don’t always go according to plan!

Recording podcasts is just like anything else in life; there are good days and bad. During our monthly recording sessions for the podcast, mistakes are invariably made, some of which I kept for posterity. As such, I have put together a short collection of these out-takes and bloopers for your seasonal amusement…

Podcast Bloopers 2009

The Internet Monthly – Podcast Bloopers 2009:

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Thanks

As the final days of 2009 fade away, I’d like to take this opportunity to say thanks very much to you all for following my blog over the last year.

Hopefully the New Year will provide me with further inspiration for new and interesting posts in the month’s to come… we can at least hope!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!