Random thoughts and observations
A cadet reporter came across a new Facebook group this week that was dedicated to denigrating a local teenager, let’s call him Joe. Categorised under “Organizations – clubs and societies”, the group was called “People who think Joe is annoying”. There was a photo of Joe wearing his cricket club cap, with a red line [...]
I chose mgorey for my Facebook vanity URL this morning: www.facebook.com/mgorey. I wasn’t up at 2am when the personalised addresses became available in Australia, but having a relatively uncommon surname has its advantages. I now have the same username for Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype and Facebook. I don’t actually use Facebook much. The wall content [...]
I was never a big Tweeter, but found the concept strangely compelling. There are many people ranting on the web about service disruptions, but I never used it enough to be troubled. Nevertheless, I like to try new things and stumbled across Identi.ca yesterday and set up an account with the short, early-adopter user name [...]
Jessica Dolcourt writes about Twitter spam on Webware. I go through periods when I tweet regularly and then I do nothing for a week. For such an inactive and boring tweeter I was surprised to find that 15 followers had jumped on my bandwagon in the past few weeks. As Jessica points out, it’s not [...]
I’ve always been reluctant to get involved with “social networking” sites. I don’t mind Flickr for photos, but various other online communities have failed to engage my interest. A new one has come along though called Explode. I registered early and so far I’m impressed. By signing up early I got a good user name [...]
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