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  • First report of Costa Rica quake on Twitter

    Last Thursday January 8, an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Costa Rica in Central America. My wife Laura and I have a strong interest in Costa Rica as we have family there and, indeed, lived there during…

  • The battle for command and control of the Labour Party

    Coming next month to an internet-connected device near you is LabourList.org, a new online presence for the Labour Party with social media at its heart. LabourList’s strapline says “Where Labour minded people come together,” a good indicator of what to…

  • Tips to help you get started with Twitter

    Twitter has been in the news a great deal in recent weeks, sometimes for trivial reasons, sometimes for headline-grabbing reasons. Whatever the reason, one thing is true – more and more people are signing up for accounts and joining the…

  • Some journalists’ fascination with Twitter

    Both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph published stories about Twitter yesterday. As a way of bringing this micro-blogging / text chatting / social network / service to the attention of a wider UK public, both papers have done…

  • When God asks

    Could be someone’s epitaph. It couldn’t be mine: I have less than 12,500. :) Great contemporary geek cartoon by Oliver Widder who draws at Geek and Poke. Discovered via Smashing magazine and their terrific showcase yesterday of 50 Beautiful Examples…