X (Twitter)
Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
Belam's Twitter ghost exposes misogyny Paid Members Public
Martin Belam pretended to be a ghost on twitter – and discovered the misogyny lurking in our political debate [http://martinbelam.com/2013/bbcextraghost/]: > Then I announced that the next guest was going to be Emmeline Pankhurst, the first time it had featured a woman. Within a couple of minutes
Google: no longer a webby company Paid Members Public
Marco Arment has used the demise of Google Reader to explore how Google has changed since the rise of Facebook [http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown] – and how the big three web players (Facebook, Twitter and Google) are no longer “webby” in the sense we once used the
My Twitter life as a video Paid Members Public
This is sorta fun: my Twitter life captured as a video [https://www.vizify.com/adam-tinworth/twitter-video], including most popular Tweets and photos. Sadly, it’s not embeddable, so you’ll have to click through.
My (Twitter) cards are marked Paid Members Public
Well huzzah: > Hello Adam Tinworth, Your request to be included in Twitter Cards has been approved. We’ve activated Summary and Photo cards for *.onemanandhisblog.com. I’m becoming such a markup geek. (No idea what I’m talking about? Here’s the Twitter cards documentation [https://dev.twitter.
Twitter can't replace RSS Paid Members Public
Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Paid Content, identifies why the “social media has killed RSS” idea doesn’t apply [http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/14/google-reader-please-dont-go-i-need-you-to-do-my-job/] to many of us: > The best thing about Google Reader, from my point of view, is that it allows me to scan a
Twitter Hacked - passwords compromised Paid Members Public
Well, that was something to wake up to… Twitter has indeed been hacked, with 250,000 accounts exposed [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/02/02/twitter-confirms-that-it-was-hacked-and-250000-users-may-have-been-compromised/] , mine amongst them. > This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We
Six things I learnt while teaching journalism students today Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/01/IMG_7537.jpg] 1. Carrying your DSLR with you to do some video demos means you can grab unexpected fun images while waiting for a train 2. Confusion about what images from the web you’re allowed to grab
The Back to the Blog challenge Paid Members Public
Steph [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/] : > For the next ten days, starting tomorrow (Tuesday), I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have
