My Edinburgh Twestival Documentary

If all goes well, I’ll be stepping out on stage as this post goes lives, which means that the debut of my short ‘Documentary’ on Charity:Water for the Edinburgh Twestival is getting its premiere.
You may recall I asked for people to pass a glass of water around yesterday – this was the reason.
My thinking went [...]

Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point

…but not for the reason you might think.
You see, this isn’t a post about the content of Robert Scoble’s interview with the Twitter team of Ev Williams and Biz Stone over the weekend – after all it’s a simple fact of life that the world goes round, the sky is blue, and Twitter goes down [...]

Ewan’s Guide to The Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Tonight’s the night! While the semi-finals are both an acquired taste and require true dedication to watch (or perhaps wondering just what the frak Ewan is twittering about…) the final (tonight, Saturday 24th May) pulls in absolutely stonking viewing figures (last year topped eleven million in the UK). For all the media sniping, it is [...]

Daffy Duck says Today is Twitter Cartoon Day

Apparantly today is going to be Twitter Cartoon Day, with the rather splendidly simple idea of changing your avatar over to your favourite cartoon character. Would there be any doubt that I would go for the enternally optimistic, full of wacky ideas, Daffy Duck?

I find it interesting that Twitter is a place where the altering [...]

In The Online Twitter/FriendFeed Widget War, Only The Users Win

Perfect – Twhirl (from Seesmic) has decided to add in FriendFeed features, and Alert Thingy (Howard/Baines)has integrated Twitter. Two applciations, looking to be the best, are going to deliver the best possible value… to the user. There’s nothing like an arms race to drive innovation. One of them adds a feature, the other follows, and [...]

Twitter For Sale on Ebay: One Careful User Only

Andrew Baron has decided to sell his Twitter account to the highest bidder (hat tip to Chris Brogan for the info). On offer through Ebay are his account, login and his 1387 followers. Bidding is currently just under $500, which works out at around 30 cents (14p) per user.

Baron’s Ebay Auction

Now, putting aside the person [...]

Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter

Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that:
“I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.”
Stanley Kubrick
pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke.
So what did Kubrick know [...]

Twitter’s Twhirl Is the Perfect Life/Organsier Timer

One of the revelations from SXSW for me was the Twhirl client for Twitter – turning Twitter into something approaching the friendliness and chat of IRC with the paradigm of Instant Messaging. It’s certainly pulled me a little bit more into the Twitter-sphere than previously. Whether this is a good or bad thing, I’m not [...]

Tweetstats: Can You Tell When I Travel?

Tweetstats is a nice service, just punch in your Twitter username and you get back a mess of stats on what you’ve been up to. I’m sure that we’ll get people pouring over high profile people and extract some Columbo-esque detective work. So let’s start with my monthlies. Can you tell when I travel to [...]

Team Tartan – Join The Clan on Twitter

As Steve McQueen would say, somethings coming, I can smell it. Everyone on Twitter today has been recruiting people to join groups of Colour – you do in two easy steps… the first is to follow your colour of choice, and then modify your avatar on twitter to show your affiliation. What’s going to happen [...]

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