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On My Death dot com

18 August, 2013 Christopher England

I knew somebody in the 1980s, who I latterly followed on Facebork. He died. His last ever post on Facebork was just something fairly random,

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Who was bullying Hannah?

11 August, 2013 Christopher England

Well, that’s an interesting twist. According to ask.fm, 98% of the posts that were ‘bullying’ Hannah Smith, who later committed suicide, came from the same

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God and Satan are no longer on my newsfeed

3 August, 2013 Christopher England

I have a fairly relaxed attitude to social media.  Over the years in public fora many bullies have tried to attack me, always from their

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Yes, a woman had a baby

23 July, 2013 Christopher England

One of the most fascinating things surrounding the birth of the baby Jesus Windsor (to Kate and Wills) was how conveniently for the whole of

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How the Hangouts are taking over

30 June, 2013 Christopher England

Google+ has just celebrated its second birthday.  Happy Birthday Google+.  You know I love you, right? As a Google anorak, even in these times when

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The Web as intended

28 June, 2013 Christopher England

The truly wonderful christopherengland.com is hand crafted by me to provide daily articles for your extreme reading pleasure.  Using words, most of which are found

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Radio Caroline obsessives need to faff off

8 June, 2013 Christopher England

Once upon a time there was a radio station called Radio Caroline.  It closed down. Then it came back and closed down many more times.

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New comment system from today

16 May, 2013 Christopher England

Ooooh.  Exciting.  When I tried it before it ‘lost’ all the existing comments, so I quickly switched it back off again. Time has elapsed, and

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My So-shell Meeja Strategy

8 May, 2013 Christopher England

I have been considering what I should be doing and where, when it comes to my use of social media or social networks.  But, alas,

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Google+ Hangout on Mars

30 April, 2013 Christopher England

I didn’t get invited to be part of a 30 minute Google+ Hangout to talk about dying on Mars. However, if I had been invited

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Faceborkers are jumping ship

27 April, 2013 Christopher England

An alarmingly large number of people appear to be stopping their use of Facebork.  Well, ‘alarming’ if you are Facebork and looking at short term

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Tweets of confusion from Boston

18 April, 2013 Christopher England

Like a large number of people, I read Twitter like a newspaper.  It always seems so far ahead of mainstream media and is always quoted

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My local pirate radio station hates modern music

4 April, 2013 Christopher England

Some while ago I penned a piece about how radio station’s should almost be for life (here). They should ‘capture’ the youth of the day

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Whatever happened to privacy?

27 March, 2013 Christopher England

I don’t exist on social media.  In fact, there’s only a tiny trace of me on the interweb. However, there’s a lot of my writing

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Facebook is full of stupid people

8 March, 2013 Christopher England

One of the issues that distresses me about Facebook is that its users are allowed to vote, reproduce and freely co-exist with human beings. Lord

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Jake Morrison is gay

28 February, 2013 Christopher England

There’s a very young local councillor representing the Labour party (there isn’t really any other party in Liverpool, it’s a one party state), who managed

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So nobody’s using Google+ eh?

29 January, 2013 Christopher England

I keep being told that nobody is using Google+.  I keep being told this by people who, for some obscure reason, seem to think that

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Google+, Twitter and Facebook help find missing girl

28 January, 2013 Christopher England

About six months ago, Karl woke up and realised that his 13 year old daughter Jessica had gone missing from their Taunton, Somerset home. She

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I’m not on Twitter, I have a life

27 January, 2013 Christopher England

Now then, those who regularly read this England’s England place and take an interest in my spoutage will know that I’m an early adopter of

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Assault weapons and the mentally ill

17 January, 2013 Christopher England

The world of good novels and excellent movies has lived off the world of conspiracy theories forever. Storylines that give us ‘stuff’ that’s happening that

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What they said about Christopher England #1

21 December, 2012 Christopher England

A few weeks ago I had to work on location.  I had limited internet access via very expensive satellites, plus it was essential to not

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Time to reject the hard-wired support for Israel

17 November, 2012 Christopher England

For most people in the UK, who we are and what we think is pretty much pre-written and pre-designed.  We are actually quite ignorant of

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Am I allowed to say this?

23 October, 2012 Christopher England

(A guest article written by Peter Moore) In March 2010 a young man was stabbed and beaten to death in Victoria Station, London, during the

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Pirates still rule the waves

5 October, 2012 Christopher England

Have I mentioned before that I own one-and-a-half radio stations?  Well, I do.  They are internet radio stations playing variations of dance music (what other

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A stag too far

23 August, 2012 Christopher England

Photoshop and the various other chopping and changing packages mean that nothing ever has to originally be as it now seems.  But, for sake of argument,

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How Facebook won’t let you die

14 August, 2012 Christopher England

One of the ‘problems’ with Facebook is that when a person dies they don’t die. I was reminded of this a few hours ago when

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I was a real nowhere man

13 July, 2012 Christopher England

I can’t tell you where I’ve been.  I can’t tell you how I got there.  I can’t tell you how I got back.  I can’t

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So nobody’s using Google+ eh?

5 July, 2012 Christopher England

I keep being told that nobody is using Google+.  I keep being told this by people who, for some obscure reason, seem to think that

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Google+, Twitter and Facebook help find missing girl

28 June, 2012 Christopher England

A couple of days ago, Karl woke up and realised that his 13 year old daughter Jessica had gone missing from their Taunton, Somerset home.

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The mobile phone is killing real life experiences

24 June, 2012 Christopher England

Why doesn’t anybody actually watch anything any more? I mean, once upon a time one sat at the cinema or theatre and allowed the director

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A mention of Mensch’s //Menshn

22 June, 2012 Christopher England

I like those who are slightly ‘mad’, dare to be different and maybe end up appearing quirky or eccentric whilst working in jobs that require

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Never Seconds raises over £100,000

21 June, 2012 Christopher England

I’m going to have to break cover about my latest anorak addiction.  It’s nine year old Martha Payne (and probably her dad, Dave). So, there’s

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The first law of Tony Blackburn

14 June, 2012 Christopher England

There are some things in this world that are scientific constants. Night follows Day follows Night follows Day. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn,

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If this then that

24 March, 2012 Christopher England

Possibly not enough is said about the excellent service iftt.com. I guess you could say it’s for lazy people, or you could say it’s for

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I’m not on Twitter, I have a life

13 January, 2012 Christopher England

Now then, those who regularly read this England’s England place and take an interest in my spoutage will know that I’m an early adopter of

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The day Steve Conway realised he was one of THEM

11 January, 2012 Christopher England

I’ve spoken before about my Steve Conway Envy (here).  From the results of a search across England’s England it would appear that I obesses about

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Facebookers make ready to jump off bridges

18 December, 2011 Christopher England

The Facebork timelines have finally arrived for the prolls using Facebork. (Oh dear.)   Blood before Christmas!  (Where’s my popcorn?)  As a very important person,

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The Pluses of the Google Plus public house

21 November, 2011 Christopher England

Yes, I know I am a Google obsessive, ok.  But, surely you’ve just got to love a company with bouncy balls, slides and playrooms in their

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Photos on Facebook versus photos on Google

14 November, 2011 Christopher England

Here’s a couple of interesting screen-grabs: The first is from Facebook’s terms of service.  Basically what they are saying is that anything over which you

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Google+ is forwards to Facebook’s backwards

29 October, 2011 Christopher England

Trying to work out or understand why I and 40 Million others remain avid users of Google+ whilst Millions of others also came across to

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Watching you watching me

25 October, 2011 Christopher England

Not that I’m sad or anything, but from time to time I take a deeper look at Google Analytics to see what searches are leading

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The Facebork Timeline

16 October, 2011 Christopher England

Facebook users are not an adventurous bunch.  On the whole, they hate change, and are very stuck in their ways. Even though some of them

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‘Anonymous’ children ‘occupy’ stupid people’s brains!

11 October, 2011 Christopher England

Years ago chain letters started by being just that, letters.  They would arrive with threats of your immediate demise if you failed to copy them

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Steve Jobs

6 October, 2011 Christopher England

There are a billion blogs and websites saying goodbye to Steve Jobs. Probably there are also a minority of places that are snarling and being disrespectfully negative,

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What’s Google Plus for?

3 October, 2011 Christopher England

Yes, what is Google+ for? Is it going to do to Facebook what Facebook did to MySpace? Is it going to silence those tweets from

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The mobile phone is killing real life experiences

26 September, 2011 Christopher England

Why doesn’t anybody actually watch anything any more? I mean, once upon a time one sat at the cinema or theatre and allowed the director

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Wowed by Oooh-boon-chew

8 September, 2011 Christopher England

I rediscovered an old yet surprisingly powerful desktop PC which had been cast aside because it had Windows Millenium on it and the thought was

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A mench for the Mensch

27 August, 2011 Christopher England

There was a time when politicians were like space aliens in the way they were so completely out of touch with most of the population.

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Want to try-out Google Plus?

22 August, 2011 Christopher England

If you need an ‘invite’ to get to enjoy Google Plus but are far too frightened or too much of a loner to ask, just

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Don’t ‘follow’, just ‘search’ on Twitter

17 August, 2011 Christopher England

Duncan Barkes, the legendary talking radio broadcaster, has dumped me. I don’t mean he pressed the button to cut me off from one of his

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Don’t shoot the Messenger

15 August, 2011 Christopher England

Much has been made of the looters and rioters using Blackberry’s RIM Instant Messaging service, Blackberry Messenger (BBM), to co-ordinate themselves and swiftly pass on

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Social Media wins the war on facts

27 July, 2011 Christopher England

Things have moved on since the last time Israel was bombing Palestinians, even though Israel still controls its own people and its propaganda with mantras.

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Where does Google+ fit into your life?

19 July, 2011 Christopher England

Now that Google+ is ‘stable’ and almost anybody who wants to can get on it, where’s its place in social media? One of G+’s early

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I am your automatic blogger, automatic blogger, automatic …

15 July, 2011 Christopher England

Is automating one’s internet presence so very wrong?  Maybe.  But I have my reasoning. You see, the problem is that when one has the will to

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From a point in Google+ to the Circles of your mind

11 July, 2011 Christopher England

It’s fascinating watching the Social Media anoraks as they leap on top of any new toy and play with it like over-excited dogs with a

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Google+ for those who are scared of Google

8 July, 2011 Christopher England

Yes, I am a Google anorak.  Therefore, like the hypnotised iSheep who can never see anything wrong with the re-invention of the wheel that is

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Google pluses and Google minuses

29 June, 2011 Christopher England

I’m unashamedly a Google ‘anorak’.  You know that strange glazed-eyes look you see in ‘anoraks’ of Apple products, especially those with an ‘i’ in front

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A tribute to Tribute

13 May, 2011 Christopher England

I guess this is my overdue tribute to Tribute FM. Tribute FM is an ‘illegal’ or ‘pirate’ radio station in waiting. However, unlike such stations

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Death by Facebook

8 May, 2011 Christopher England

I have moaned many times about Facebook.  Although I have a presence there with 450 people kind enough to call themselves my friends, Facebook is

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Behold, a man who looks like a thumb

25 January, 2011 Christopher England

This week, a couple of years ago, this picture simply titled, “Behold, a man who looks like a thumb” zapped around Twitter and instantly made

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Tagging and Cataloguing

28 October, 2010 Christopher England

It’s dawned on me that ‘social networking’ or (more properly) ‘social media’, especially Facebook, is less about generating actual content than it is about tagging

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Facebook is the real Big Brother

5 October, 2010 Christopher England

It’s interesting watching the paranoid display their paranoia. I love their conspiracy theories and listening to them rattling on about how terrible it is that

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Is there life OUTSIDE of Facebook?

1 August, 2010 Christopher England

As an avid user of things OUTSIDE of Facebook, especially the various specialist interest fora dedicated to ‘anoraks’ or old-stylee enthusiasts of radio and techie

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Christopher England:

A dis/misplaced Londoner now in Liverpool, yet remaining a free-thinking and commentating observer of media, people watcher, reality checking truth detective, future trend predictor and complete all round tosser.

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