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  • Anonymous comments have value

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI love anonymous commenting because it’s from the heart that people speak rather than from their pedestal. By this I meran that when you make an anonymous comment you don’t need to know anything. You can say what you feel and you’re genuine. Of course that feeling might last ten seconds and…

  • Don’t make me sign up to login, and use Disqus so I can leave comments.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m active on the web, spending thousands of hours a year connected to the web. As a result I have to log into a lot of sites often. I don’t like logging in though. That’s why I would love for big name publishers like the WSJ, NYTimes and others to sign an…

  • The 50,000th tweet

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor Valentine’s day I reached my 50,000th tweet which I dedicated to @orchideane through twitterfone, as asked by @toppgold. I really want to lay in to twitter for having database maintenance. really I do, but I won’t. I’ll concentrate on other things. There; contemporary joke: What’s the difference between twitter and…

  • I know which twitter users come here.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I installed twitter remote on this blog. It’s a quick and fun way to see which of you twitter friends have been to my site recently. This is particularly interesting now that more and more people have their own twitter account. Here’s a quick preview of what it looks like.

  • Twitter friendships and why I took some time off

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you first arrive on twitter it’s lots of strangers sending messages speaking about what they’re doing and it quickly becomes overwhelming, especially with the vast number of people. For the first few months many people send no more than a hundred posts a day as they get used to the twitter…

  • Ten Days without Twitter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a video of me at the only Twestival event I have ever been to and I lay into the event for the fashionistas that attended the event. I was so disappointed with the event as a whole that I have lost my passion for going to social media events, especially…

  • Remember that first tweetup?

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we have @sizemore speaking about why he organised the first London tweetup. I will upload some of the other interviews soon but I’m just checking the player embedding first This text will be replaced

  • Monkey Thieves, Great in HD

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMonkey Thieves is a documentary about the Gulta Gang, a gang of monkeys in India wreaking havoc. What I love about this documentary is that it’s a great topic in HD. You see all the details. You see the faces, you see how they eat a grape but throw away the…

  • TweetCamp

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning whilst tweeting with Fahran Rehman we decided that we would like to organise a twitter event in London with a difference. Twestival and twinterval are great ideas but we’re thinking of doing something over a period of two days that would be like a podcamp but over two days…

  • The old Geneva

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere are some old images of Geneva in Switzerland taken over a century ago. You can see how the land used to look and how it looks now. You can see some of the old streets and the contours. Now it’s a mass of buildings and the relief is hidden. Then Such…