Tweeting in meetings....
I came across this ratherinteresting article from the personal blog of a Pastor in the US recently in which he suggests that Tweeting in Church might be a good idea. Now, I have to admit that I was s…
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Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Social Media and the mob
One of my favourite films is 'The Fisher King')- one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio 'Shock Jock' Jack Lucas repeats the words 'Forgive me' from a TV script he is hoping to star in, w…
You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…
Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?
I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…
Twitter - the medium is NOT the message!
Regular readers of my 'jottings' might recall a recent post of mine in which Idebated the value of Tweeted Wisdom. Always one to consider returning to the scene of past musings, I was today motivated…
The problem with Tweeted Wisdom....
Like many of us on Twitter, I follow a number of Twitter users who post aphorisms, quotes, sayings, etc. A sort of electronic review of the 'Wisdom Literature' of the last 2000 years. This can be pr…
Twitter Phishing...YOUR responsibility!
The recent spate of Twitter 'phishing' attacks have been interesting for me in a number of ways. First of all, my wife received one of the phishing DMs from a contact of hers whose account had been co…
Twitter - voluntary spam?
In a recent article, it's been suggested that Twitter is becoming a major route for spammersto peddle their wares. This seems to be a feature emerging of all social networks right now, but in today's…
Is this a valid test of Social Media Newsgathering?
A few days ago I came across this news story, in which a group of French journalists are to be holed up in a farmhousesomewhere with no access to normal news media but with access to Social Media - Tw…