Internet Psychologist
Graham Jones 
Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama have something in common – they both joined Twitter in the same year. But will seeing their picture here encourage you also to join? The chances are, it will not. Indeed, knowing that there are thousands of celebrities who are on Twitter is of …
An apology was issued to 38 British soldiers yesterday because they had mistakenly been told they were to lose their jobs – via email. Getting dismissed by email is not new, of course, but it is no joke when it happens. Equally, some partners have been “dumped” by text message. …
Sir Fred Goodwin is a *anker. A legal “super injunction” prevents me from filling in the first consonant as the courts have agreed it is illegal for anyone to publish or mention anything which refers to the profession of this disgraced former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Newspapers …
This year, according to eMarketer, one billion people worldwide will have Internet access and nearly 250 million households will have broadband. Although, Asia accounts for 56 percent of world population, but only 10 percent has access to the Internet at present. With the rapid economic development of Asian countries this …
Hello, how are you today? I hope you are feeling fine and that if you have friends or relatives in Japan you are able to get some positive news. No doubt your thoughts are with everyone affected by this morning’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami. At times like this it is …
Do your online customers love you? I mean really love you? The chances are your business is merely “acceptable” to your customers. Few businesses are loved, or adored by their customers. Indeed, for many customers you are not even the ideal business of your kind – you are probably just …
How are you today? Bright and breezy and happy with your lot? Well, if you are smiling, positive and generally feeling good about yourself the chances are you have just had a quick peek at your Facebook Wall. According to research from Cornell University people who look at their Facebook …
You have almost certainly realised this for ages – but at long last we now have scientific proof that pop-ups do not work. Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology have conducted a series of tests which confirm that those annoying marketing messages that pop-up in your face on many …
Last week, Google released one of the biggest ranking algorithms updates of the last months. The change noticeably impacts 11.8% of all queries on Google. How does this affect the rankings of your website on Google? What has Google changed? Google has announced that they made a major change in …
Just been interviewed on BBC Radio Berkshire by Bill Buckley about “Busy Life Syndrome” the newly invented “condition” which apparently means we forget things more easily.
Smokers face a tough choice: give up cigarettes, improve their health and save money – or – avoid the battle of dealing with a strong addiction by carrying on smoking. For decades health professionals have struggled to ensure that smokers give up. Indeed, many people who smoke want to stop …
Author: Peter Lauer If you are new to blogging, there are a few strategies that you can use to make your blog the best it can be. With so many free online blogging services available these days, it seems like anyone can do it. What makes the difference is how …
Bankers bonuses do not motivate them to do better. The bankers in receipt of millions, of course, think that the bonuses are incentives. And Governments around the world have bought into this apparent “common sense”. The trouble is, much research on occupational psychology shows us that pay is only a …
Pen-pushing health and safety experts are being blamed for the latest “ban” to afflict children. In another example of “health and safety gone mad” children in in Oxfordshire are being banned from wearing goggles when swimming because there is the “danger” that these protective devices might snap onto a youngster’s …
Facebook is the most blocked website in the world. According to the annual report from OpenDNS, even though pornorgraphy is the most blocked category, Facebook is the single site which is picked out to be blocked more than any other. Indeed, only 1% of users of OpenDNS block Playboy, but …