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Friendship in the social age

On 29 July, 2010 · 14 Comments · In Social media

I think a lot of people confuse networking for friendship in this age. It could have started with Myspace (a moment of silence please!) and the golden era of fifty billion “friends” but more and more it seems like lots of people favour a bajillion acquaintances in preference to a handful of buddies.

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Show us your doodle. Your lunchdoodle!

On 14 October, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Social media

Some smart, funny and good looking people (who will no doubt quibble over how I’ve linked them!) came up with the idea of lunch doodles over Twitter, and they’d been showing each other the funny drawings they’d done while eating lunch (or working, but don’t tell [...]

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I can’t quit you Twitter

On 25 August, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Social media

My #twitterbreak lasted approximately two days, and I had to break my “fast” because I simply couldn’t remain mute any longer. People who aren’t Twitter-savvy yammer on about how it’s just a bunch of self absorbed people blagging on about [...]

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The great #twitterbreak

On 19 August, 2009 · 19 Comments · In Social media

I am a huge advocate of Twitter, I admit it without shame. At first I didn’t really get it because I thought it was just a standalone status broadcaster, kind of like facebook but without the risk of friends and family [...]

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Plurkin’ awesome

On 11 June, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Social media

If you’ve got a Twitter account you might have experienced the really irritating outages that have been happening of late, but never fear! Plurk is here to save you from your dawdling moments on the internet! I got an account a few days ago, and I’ve been addicted ever since.

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The girl’s gone micro-blogging crazy

On 4 June, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Social media

Let me tell you the story about three little blogging platforms, Twitter, Tumblr and Plurk. It all started with a girl who liked to explore the minutiae of people’s lives…

I tried to get into this style of blogging early last year, starting with Pownce. Random people started offering [...]

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