Richard Farrar's Blog

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.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – January 2010:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Or, download: podcast_jan10.mp3 [17’ 03”, 7.9MB]

This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. CHILDREN TO TEACH TECHNOPHOBES – Kids to help adults learn IT
   • www.btinternetrangers.co.uk/Awards/BTInternetRangersSchoolsAward/
2. WIN A PICASSO – Help save the environment and win a Picasso
   • www.1010uk.org/1010/picasso
3. DECADES ONLINE – BBC examines the impact of 20 years of the web
   • www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution
4. THE G-CLOUD – British government to adopt cloud computing?
   • www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/government-s-new-ict-strategy-could-save–3-2bn-2625
5. POLITICAL PPC – Political parties battle with paid internet ads
   • www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/09/conservative-party-google-adwords
6. BLOCK UNWANTED ADS – Choose your adverts on Yahoo!
   • info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting
   • yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=428449
7. TWITTERINGLY CORRECT – UK political search on Twitter
   • tweetminster.co.uk
8. TWITTERING DOUBLES DELL SALES – Dell continues to sell via Twitter
   • www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akXzD_6YNHCk
9. TWITTER CARD READER – Mobile phones become portable cash registers
   • squareup.com
   • www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJR0t-NlPk
10. PROOF EXCHANGE – Free online proofing service
    • www.useapollo.com
11. CLEVER PUTTY – Solid setting modelling clay fills and fixes
    • sugru.com
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLxIHlmFV5Y
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJsH5WL9IE
12. TEN TIMES FASTER WIRELESS – New Wi-Fi speed boost
    • wirelessgigabitalliance.org
13. DOWN AT THE LOCAL – Wi-Fi hotspots face legal action
    • news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39909136,00.htm
14. INTERNET INTRANET – Set up your own intranet for free in minutes
    • www.remindo.com
15. CLIGS – URL shortening service with built-in analytics
    • cli.gs
16. KEEPING UP – Check your websites are running every 5 minutes
    • wasitup.com
17. MULTI BROWSER TESTING – Validate your web pages on multiple browsers
    • www.browsera.com/signup/Free
18. BING RINGS UP MORE SALES – Bing offers higher returns on adverts
    • advertising.microsoft.com/uk/adcentercampaignsurgery/what-to-expect
19. RED Z SEARCH – Graphically presented search results
    • www.redz.com
20. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Save the planet while you search
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfy_ILRZhF4
    • www.ecosia.com
    • www.ecosia.org

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.