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"Citizen journalism will continue to play an important role in what gets reported, but it's not the same as a properly resourced news organisation with the facilities to check and double check what's happening". Adam's spot on about 'Twitterquake'
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Danny using Twitter to vent some spleen at Coca-Cola search advertising idiocy
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"I feel there’s something fundamentally unsettling that attention within the Twitter community should have shifted at all off the matter at hand [the Chinese earthquake] and on to a celebration of the particular communication tool we were using".
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"Recently, I’ve been involved in a research project about game controllers, comparing different peripheral (gestural or not). This led me to investigate the evolution of game controller over time, a topic already addressed by others".
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"The Science Museum 'Object Wiki' is a website with information about some of the objects within the Science Museum's collections. To help improve the information, we've opened up the pages so that anyone can edit them."
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So, tonight's UEFA Cup showpiece is between a team whose fans apparently won't tolerate them signing any black players, against a team whose fans like to sing songs about killing Catholics. Nice.
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"An example of link-rot can be seen in this archive of Boing Boing', in which 25% of almost 47k outlinks no longer point to anything. We suspect that a good proportion of the outlinks that do point to something don't point to the original location."
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"Unfortunately, this is the most common question I get asked. I say unfortunately because, in my view, the obsession with this question reflects the sorry state of business and government today - namely, if you can’t count it, it doesn’t count."
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"One of the hot topics here has been the FTC announcement it is changing the rules in the US around unsubscribing. Essentially you need to ensure that your reader can kiss you off with a single click, without having to enter more than an email address."
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"Silverback is an OSX application to help people run their own low-cost Guerrilla usability tests. It captures screen activity, records audio and video from your built in iSight, and then composites it into a handy Quicktime movie for later use". Want.
