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  • A Tweet Too Far ?

    I love Twitter, I do. I love the informal nature of it. I enjoy the bit of banter and chat with people who normally I wouldn’t get to know.It’s probably the place I get all my news now aswell. If there’s something I’m interested in, then I’ll investigate further.

    There are also some things that I won’t put on twitter, I try never to disclose my exact location, along with FourSquare (which is just a tad too much for me) some evil geniuses came up with Please Rob Me,  so er, no thanks.

    Twitter is quite a useful social media tool but last week in Utah convicted murder Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad. I don’t believe in the death penalty and this post has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of it. But death penalty or not I do believe that everyone, no matter who they are should have the right to die with dignity. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtlef actually tweeted that he has given the order for the execution to be carried out.

    I feel that this was wrong, Shurleff tried to defend himself by saying he used Twitter to ‘communicated directly with people’. Convicted murder or not, Gardner’s last moments were made public by Shurleff.

    Thanks to Stumbleupon

  • Social Media to the Rescue

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    Last night myself and a college buddy were chatting outside our beloved school of intellectual enlightenment. It was getting late and we said our farewells.

    I turned towards the pedestrian lights to cross the road and spotted a wallet on the ground in front of me. I looked around to see if the owner was near but there was no one around. I checked inside, saw a name, bank cards and some cash. Why do we never put our own number in our wallet?

    I saw the owner was a student but not in our college.. I’d just have to left a message at their college reception for them.

    I got home, had another look to see if there was an address or a number and decided to tweet if anyone knew the person. I then went to Facebook and did a search for the person.

    I found both them and their boyfriend, sent a message and got a reply a couple of hours later. I had also got two replies from Twitter, with contact details for the person.

    The wallet was returned to the owner 14 hours after I found the wallet.

    Yay for social media!

  • Twitter is twattered!

    twitterSo Twitter is twattered! I have to say I feel completely lost. Some nice people try to invade our virtual world and we’re left stranded on our spacehoppers looking at the good guys trying to defend planet Twitter.

    It was only yesterday that reports were swirling around that under 24s thought it wasn’t cool to be part of social media networks. I fit into the over 24 category.

    Last week I deleted my Myspace and Bebo accounts. There’s not really any point in having more than Facebook and Twitter really.

    MySpaceWhen Myspace came along, it was about how many ‘friends’ you had and how many page views you had. Now, it seems to me anyway, its more important to have a circle of contacts that you actually communicate with and interact with.

    beboI’m still surprised at how many bands still use Myspace. For the under 24s, no actually under 18s, Bebo and Myspace provide a good way of keeping in touch with the kids. Is it because it’s free? The nice people here at wordpress provide a decent free blogging world.

    Myspace provides facilities for blogging, friend updates, photos but I think the biggest letdown has been that while you can customise your page, you still really are stuck to ‘their’ format.

    facebookSaying that while Facebook provides space for ‘what you’re doing’ and Twitter has brought that to a more simple 140 character micro blogging format more .com or ‘proper websites’ are taking a more blog like form.

    Westlife.com is a great example of this. While the website provides all the information it needs to, it gives members the ability to comment on each piece of information. So in reality westlife.com has started its own social media network as their fans interact with each other here rather than on a Myspace, Facebook or other facility.

    wordpress2I’m actually thinking of utilizing a blog form of website and transferring this blog to it. Searching through blogrolls it seems that while people are happy to use a blog form and allow others to directly comment on their content, they still like to have theirdomainname.com while being powered by WordPress.

    It is completely coincidental that this blog is wordpress hosted and powered 🙂

    I missed the news on Twitter today. It keeps me up to date with all the news headlines from The Guardian. (Speaking of which don’t let The Observer close – check my page on web effecting newspapers).

    So while there was no twitter today a number of things cropped up that I would have mentioned:

    Nice guy asked if I needed help with shopping and my on crutches. First in 12 weeks

    HHMM! Martina McBride playing tonight in Citywest hotel last time I saw her in the Point with Garth Brooks

    Facebook isn’t as spontanious is it?

    Go Giants Good win last night! #mlb #sfgiants

    Hopefully it will be back tomorrow

    …nessy out