A quick tip for when you're looking for information from a particular website, and you know it's there somewhere but you just can't find it: Go to Google and type site:[thewebsiteyouwanttosearch.co.uk] and add the search term here What you'll get is all the pages on...

There's so much more to inted than learning how to code and how to stay safe online, great though those subjects are. And it's great that they're already widely taught in schools. But what I've found, since deciding in 2005 that I wanted to understand how people make...

Here's another business that people earn from: they buy a domain name (eg yourname.co.uk) then sell it later for a profit. Most domains in my experience are relatively cheap to buy and, as I learned a few years ago, they're like land: once they're bought and...

Earlier this year, I learned about Jimmy Reid, the Glasgow trade union activist, and the speech he delivered on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972. When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as “the greatest speech...

Which books would I recommend young people, parents and teachers read to understand more about the commercial internet and working life today (compared with the world that schools generally prepare kids for)? That's a big question, obviously, and I have my favourites,...

When I left De Montfort university with my without-honours media studies degree, they sent me a letter basically saying, 'Thanks for studying there and here's what you achieved'. And it was addressed to Pail Perry. I laughed about it - still do, 25 years later - but...

Educating children on some of the endless opportunities that the internet offers is one of the key benefits of teaching inted in schools. As well as all the obvious stuff that kids already know about the internet, as they get older they'll benefit from understanding...

The internet has enabled us to watch, read and listen to what we want, where we want, when we want and how we want. Niche podcast on the bus to work, five episodes back-to-back of something on Netflix, Nick Wright's goal for Watford at Wembley in 1999, or whatever....

When you search for something in Google – let’s say you’re looking for info about a camera – what exactly are you after? You might be just thinking about buying a new camera, in which case you might use a generic term such as ‘cameras’. At this stage, you’re looking...

Almost a third of all websites run on WordPress, making it the internet’s favourite content management system (CMS). Here are nine reasons why the world loves WordPress: Widgets enable you to easily add tag clouds, maps, menus, contact forms and pretty much any other...