Archive | January, 2009
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“fuck right off” real facebook error message

i was looking at the attendees to a a facebook event and where i showed up as an attendee the error message was quite explicit: It’s you! But there’s like six other buttons that go to your profile, so fuck right off. Search hmmm not sure if the facebook developers had inteded THAT particular message [...]

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tweetdeck vs. new twhirl

this is a subjective evaluation based on what’s important to me, and how i use twitter. the short version for those short on time or attention span twhirl tweetdeck winner multiple panes that can be moved around the screen one big giant windows twhirl no groups has groups tweetdeck keyword tracking no keyword tracking twhirl [...]

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citizen journalism is not: melbourne airport example

timing could not have been more opportune, there was some debate after my posting on citizen journalism. so here’s the problem with selling twitter as a mainstream news source: without fact checking it’s just one big rumour mill. see what happens when jonoh tells the world that there is a fire on a plane today [...]

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