Lost in Tech

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Great news for those in the online digital business (at least in the US anyway) as it looks like the current dip in the Economy is havign a positive effect on the industry.

According to the Kelsey group “81 percent of SMB’s surveyed expect to maintain (47 percent) or increase (34 percent) their spending on advertising over the next 12 months, with only 9 percent planning to decrease ad spending”.

If that wasn’t enough to cheer you up there’s even more good news with “A large percentage of surveyed SMB’s said they expect to continue to adopt Web 2.0 technologies over the next 12 months: 40 percent plan to add customer reviews to their own Web sites; 30 percent will add links or place ads on social sites or blogs; and 26 percent will incorporate video on their Web sites.”

The LHC Large Hadron Collider is the worlds largest machine, Costing £2.6bn with thousands of people involved in a collaborative project designed to unlock the untold mysteries of our universe. They will have a live online broadcast of the first full beam run on September the 10th. There’s even a rap about it on youtube, so you would imagine they’re pretty crazy busy people – what with maybe the slim possibility of destroying the world and all that.

Well think again! Here’s some of the most exciting screen-grabs from the CERN Live feed today. – Brace yourself, you’ll see a coat stand move, followed by the amazing disappearance of staff. If you fancy having a look yourself before they take the feed down, check out their feed by clicking here (update) For more interesting science related webcams, Tomy suggests looking here http://www.abcwebcam.com/

There’s a lot of blogs out there..  Right now I feel like this cartoon from geek and poke.

I’m seriously thinking of swapping to the generic scan, comment and post method of blogging. A blog with few posts gathers nothng but spam comments, and the odd random view – so from the end of this week i’m going to be doing far more frequent, but shorter posts. They’ll cover the normal marketing, technology, and other random stuff floating around the ether.

Enjoy.