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When Internet PR goes bad

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Earlier today I saw Dave Gorman had posted on twitter about a Guardian piece with Neals Yard Remedies turning back on an agreement to answer some questions from the Guardian community I was quietly hopeful that Neals Yard would respond and answer some of the questions, most specifically about their homeopathic ethics.

The whole thing turned into a Neals Yard bashing thread unfortunately, yes mostly due to them not responding to any questions, but is the way to promote a response by Read more of this entry

Google are really annoying sometimes

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

You know one thing I really hate. When I open a browser window and start typing a web address, only for my Google home page to load and remove focus from the address bar to the search box.

It annoys the hell out of me when I want to got to a web page and end up searching for tbee.com or ebook.com and so on. We (well most of us) know you shouldn’t move the user focus with out them expecting it and this is a prime example of this.

It annoys the hell out of me, and there’s nothing I can do. Maybe its time to dump google as a home page. The new Yahoo! home page actually looks quite nice – maybe its time to switch back there after all this time. We’ll see when it launches to everyone if it can fulfil my needs.

/rant