Category Archives: Twitter

On twitter [or otherwise]

As occasionally happens, I’ve been reevaluating my relationships with social media. The last time I did this I received emails asking whether I was dead, so let me assure you that such rumours are greatly exaggerated. Long time readers will … Continue reading

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A brief history of talking on the interwebs (or: why I’m not on app.net)

When I first went to university, I was part of an Actual September, though it took place in October. Going from a dial-up internet service shared with the telephone line to the latest iteration of SuperJANET with its multi-megabit connection … Continue reading

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On Trashing

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, people who wanted to clandestinely gain information about a company or organisation would go trashing.[*] That just meant diving in the bins to find information about the company structure – who worked there, who … Continue reading

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Oops. (updated twice)

Q: What caused this? A: this. A Vodafone employee used the corporate Twitter account to post the message: [@VodafoneUK] is fed up of dirty homo’s and is going after beaver And as the Vodafone apology attests, this was no hacking … Continue reading

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Nearly the end-of-year review

My first post (Farkers, feel free to replace that with “boobies”) of the year 2009 was a review of 2008’s blog and look forward to 2009. It’s time to do the same for the 2009/2010 blogyear bifecta. Let’s start with … Continue reading

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Poke the other one, it’s got bells on

Originally the title for this post was to be “Why a Morris organisation should adopt social media (and why they probably won’t)”, with what is now the title being reduced to the rank of a subtitle. Then I remembered that … Continue reading

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