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Oz lawyer serves papers via Facebook website

A LAWYER served notice on an Australian couple that they had lost their home by using the social networking website Facebook. The Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court approved lawyer Mark McCormack's application to use Facebook to serve legally binding documents...

Posted by Ben Schofield on December 16, 2008 10:45 AM

Pink is colour of the month

WE'VE gone a bit political with our hots and nots this week.. Let us know if you agree... hot PINK. She was fab at the MTV EMAs and she'll be back in Liverpool on tour next year....

Posted by Laura Davis on December 14, 2008 8:00 AM

Confused dot com

or Things That Make You Run Screaming Into Therapy There are some things in life I don't get, will never get, ever. Like how to change a toilet roll (man's work since the holder is so complicated). How to empty...

Posted by Brummie Broad on November 3, 2008 5:43 PM

Countdown to the Post's re-launch: talking digital

As you can imagine, things are pretty busy at Birmingham Post Towers as we all gear up for the launch of the brand new Birmingham Post on Monday. There has, unstandably, been much talk of changes to our print editon,...

Posted by Joanna Geary on October 16, 2008 1:02 PM

Faceoff

Hi. My name is Mieka Smiles and I, my friends, am a Facebook addict. It's probably not ideal to be admitting this to the general public, which, of course, includes my boss. But, for the sake of my blog, I...

Posted by Mieka Smiles on October 15, 2008 6:48 PM

Metallic k.o. - what do you want from live?

Sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for international mega-stars, they have fame, adulation and money - but sometimes they also catch an unnecessary crock of criticism. Witness Metallica, they took the unfortunate stance of opposing Napster & music-file-sharing at a...

Posted by Paul Flower on September 24, 2008 8:40 PM

Madonna Weekend: Celebrate!

IT TURNS out that Ms Ciconne is the Marmite of pop. When we put out a call to Style City readers and Girls Behaving Stylishly's Facebook friends for Madonna-related memories, the feedback was either adoring or downright vicious. Here are...

Posted by Laura Davis on August 17, 2008 10:00 AM

Ofcom report - people spending more time erm...wasting time

Interesting new statistics from Ofcom about people's habits during the current multimedia explosion. For me the striking thing is that people aren't changing their habits much - just doing more. The report shows that Consumers spent 429 minutes, or more...

Posted by Ben Hurst on August 16, 2008 12:13 PM

Internet playing bigger role in divorce cases

THE internet is playing "an increasingly prominent role in divorce cases," according to Liverpool-based awyers. They say people are increasingly turning to social networking sites such as Facebook to vent their anger, take revenge or simply set the record straight....

Posted by Ben Schofield on July 31, 2008 11:56 AM

Can the Web save the Flapper?

News in the Mail that yet another canal-side development is planned for Brum shouldn't be a shock, but the proposed 'Baskerville Wharf' has upset me. For this "exciting mixed-use development" will mean the closure of one of Birmingham's most important...

Posted by Jon Bounds on July 24, 2008 1:42 PM

Social Media's hidden legacy

Two things trouble me about social media. The first is that everyone I read or connect to via Twitter or Facebook or whatever, seems to be having a much more exciting life than me. It's a world of gallery openings,...

Posted by David Harte on June 8, 2008 11:00 PM

Facebook foibles

Paul Dale's Iron Angle last week got me thinking: are we a generation which is too reliant on on-line communications? Certainly the foibles of Facebook have tripped up a few people. I know of several people who are desperate to...

Posted by Sarah Gee on June 2, 2008 5:16 PM

Sunday bloody sunday

SUNDAYS were invented for roast beef and mint sauce, strolls through Formby pinewoods and crosswords over real coffee and freshly buttered toast. So why am I spending this one writing a dissertation? Because I thought it would be fun to...

Posted by Laura Davis on June 1, 2008 8:06 AM

Should employers block social networking sites?

Can you prevent time wasting on the internet? I am asked more and more as an IT Consultant with MC Ware to block and monitor websites due to managements concerns about time wasting but I am not sure if this...

Posted by Jonathan Wheatley on May 16, 2008 2:16 PM

The Scrabble for supremacy

If you'd have mentioned 'Scrabulous' to someone last year you'd have probably forgiven them for thinking you were talking about some kind of nefarious skin complaint rather than the Facebook-based unauthorized version of the traditional boardgame, Scrabble. With more than...

Posted by Sam Smith on April 15, 2008 10:00 AM

The Lacy/ Zuckerberg SXSW Keynote: A Post of Two Halves

Firstly, I want to point out that a proper digest of this year's SXWX interative festival is in the pipeline and secondly I want to apologise for this rather epic blog post. The thing is I really want to convey...

Posted by Nick Lockey on March 14, 2008 11:37 AM

Facebook Reunited

Remember Friends Reunited? Before Social Networking was a buzz word and in the days when MySpace was microscopic, Friends Reunited were blazing a trail that saw the company valued at astronomical sums and spawned a breed of copycat sites and...

Posted by Sam Smith on March 4, 2008 11:16 AM