There would be a place in Ben Werdmuller’s otherwise excellent Publishers on social media are between a rock and a hard place to mention Micro.blog.

It doesn’t drive much traffic to my website, if any… but it gives me a lot of what Twitter no longer can. Also, it meshes nicely with Mastodon.

My site traffic is down by between 20 and 30 per cent now I’m not active on Twitter. I could make a faustian pact to get that traffic back, but at least I’m comfortable with myself.

Phishing, vishing, smishing and beyond is a story I wrote for NZBusiness about the most common form of online crime in New Zealand.

It’s written as a guide for non-technical readers so there’s less depth and more about the basic steps small businesses can take to not be the low-hanging fruit for criminals.