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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 utility of TweetDeck

    One word that’s getting mentioned a lot by many Twitter users these days is TweetDeck, the desktop application for interacting with your Twitter community that’s the preferred app by increasing numbers of people including me. And one individual who’s getting…

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  • 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…