What are your favourite websites? I look at Chortle.co.uk for five minutes every day. Being an author - we are all slightly paranoid - I go to Amazon and see how I'm doing.
Last online purchase? A DVD player for £35. It's a brand you've never heard of that some might find embarrassing: Yakumo. I can't join in with men down the pub, talking about makes, but I don't care because it plays CDs.
Ever begun a relationship online? No, but I have used email as a flirting tool to keep the flames alive. We met in person but nothing happened. Then our early courtship was by email - we were living in different cities.
Main source of news on the web? BBC.co.uk. It's probably just brand loyalty. I would recommend a site called thememoryhole.org. A lot of stories that get taken offline they rescue. It's like thesmokinggun.com only with less drivel.
Most useful website? My own, actually: davegorman.com. What I do for a living involves going into the real world and talking to strangers, and I want feedback. It's a bit annoying when people write: "When are you playing?" when it says on the site. You wouldn't ring up the editor of the Radio Times and say: "What's on TV Sunday night?" Otherwise, everyone's responses are really polite and useful.
Least useful website? b3ta.com, a community that contributes web images, just sucks time out of my life.
What is the most surprising use of the internet you have seen? Womenanddogsuk.co.uk. The internet is so full of smut and I defy anyone to see that url and not think the worst. What you find is possibly the most charming and innocent site on the web.
What type of online business is least likely to succeed? The best things the web does are things you can't get on the high street. Boo.com seemed a disaster from the start, and Boohoo, the book by a founder, was self-aggrandising nonsense. Web businesses often seem to exist because somebody wants them to. I get a box of random vegetables delivered weekly from organicdelivery.co.uk and I'd like a whatisthisvegetable site for people who grew up in an age when vegetables were not as exciting, but are now single and in their 30s, so you could go into greengrocers and not have to ask for this thing that looks a bit like...
· Dave Gorman is a writer and comedian. His latest book, Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, chronicles a journey 'Googlewhacking' around the world and is published this month
