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Facebook, 1984 by Robert Penney

Social networks and old friends

On December 13 2011 · 6 Comments · In Diary

Yesterday afternoon, I sorted through just over three thousand photos in Picasa. Picasa needed to know who the people were in them. Unnamed faces. It guessed some, got some wrong, got many right. It was asking me to go through and confirm. I obliged. I ignored most of the pictures, and practically all of the [...]

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Twitter’s Who To Follow feature – the overenthusiastic party host

On August 9 2010 · 2 Comments · In Diary

I’ve just read @sookio’s blog entry on Why Twitter’s Who To Follow is missing the point. I half agree, because so far, the feature has half worked for me. Sue’s not the only one to have suggested the feature is useless, and I can see why that would be a common reaction – [...]

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Anywhere here

On April 16 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

I’ve added Twitter @anywhere to this site and also to my international studies blog. Dead easy. One line of JavaScript in the header of your template, another chunk of code just before your closing body tag. Then any use of a tag with an @ at the start, for example @bigwide, and Twitter [...]

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Why live tweeting is spam

On March 16 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Live tweeting is offering a commentary on a debate or event, usually accompanied by a #hashtag – the hashtag connects the conversation by giving it a consistent label and allowing users to automatically search for related tweets.

When you follow someone on Twitter, be it as the result of a recommendation, a retweet or just [...]

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Gum, snack, meal

On June 16 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

A Twitterer described their various online presences as so: Twitter was like chewing gum, Tumblr was a snack, and their blog was a meal.

Twitter is for short messages. Less than 140 characters, little mini brain freeps. Or, you, know, bringing down the Iranian government.

Tumblr, or the service I use, [...]

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BRAIN SOUP FUTURE INSANITY LOL

On April 13 2009 · 4 Comments · In Diary

I’m attempting to wean myself off to-do lists by just doing whatever comes to mind in random order, overlapping, with music playing, Tweetdeck chirping at me, the telly playing movies I’ve seen fifteen times, a white noise blanket of distraction through which I might be able to trick myself into getting stuff done. I’s the [...]

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