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Screenshot of a tweet from Lane Bryant saying "Is this really necessary? We say NO! Share your thoughts!" and a link to my "Does my fat arse look fat in this?" tshirt on Cafe Press.

Lane Bryant, your market is changing #teamfance

On 30 July, 2010 · 19 Comments · In Fashion

Let me preface this with a huge disclaimer: I’m Australian and I’ve never shopped at Lane Bryant, however I have bought a couple of Lane Bryant dresses second-hand via the fatshionista community. Through reading fat-o-sphere blogs, I’ve gained a bit of understanding about how LB have catered to a disenfranchised market and how [...]

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An Illustration of a brown haired chubby girl with rosy cheeks and a thought bubble that says "fuuu..." The f is illustrated like facebook's logo font.

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.

Recently [...]

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When Tumblr crashes, funny things happen…

On 19 November, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Tumblr has been having a lot of “maintenance issues” lately, but I was heartened to see this marriage proposal on my dashboard just then!

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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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The Thirty Day Challenge

On 15 June, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In A Creative Career

This is just a note to let you all know that I’m going to be participating in the Thirty Day Challenge this year. If you are keen to track my progress, please feel free to check out my team’s blog – “Blogging the Thirty Day Challenge” and [...]

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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.

Reasons why you [...]

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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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