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The Futility of Blogging

Apr 9, 2023

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been writing blog posts every single day for one hundred and fourty five days and rather than feel more inspired, and get a big audience, I am writing for an audience of one. Some days I am filled with inspiration and I write the blog post in twenty minutes or…

Twitter, As a Joke

Mar 7, 2023

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richard

in social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter went down and I didn’t notice, yet again. According to The Verge it has been down five times in five weeks. It goes down so regularly that it feels as if they have allowed the Netflix Chaos Monkey to run freely around Twitter code. They say that they need to rewrite…

Twitter and SMS

Feb 10, 2023

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richard

in social media

Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in the good old days of Twitter the length of a tweet was limited to the length of an SMS. The aim was to make it possible for people to tweet and have conversations using GSM phones. With short messages we could leave the keyboard behind and read messages on our…

The Free Twitter API Ends and The Twitter Silo Begins

Feb 3, 2023

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richard

in Social Media Deontology

Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial networks and social networks are based on people connecting with other people. Twitter is a glorified chatroom masquerading as a microblogging platform. As twitter shifts from being free, to being paying, it is losing it’s appeal. Fifteen years ago there was plenty of discussion about Social Media silos and the social…

A Short Twitter Detox

Jan 19, 2023

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI took a short twitter detox for two days. For two days I didn’t look at tweets, replies and more. For two days if I wanted to rant I couldn’t. For two days I couldn’t see replies. For two days I couldn’t read people complain. It is good to take a break…

Taking a Twitter Break

Jan 17, 2023

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the first time since I took a Twitter break in 2007 I am taking another in 2023. The first time I took a twitter break I deleted my account but got asked to talk about Twitter for the RTS (TSR) back then so I went to my secondary account and started…

MicroBlogging and I

Dec 6, 2022

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 2006 I have thought of Twitter, Jaiku, Mastodon and Plurk as conversation channels, rather than microblogging. I go to these places and use them as chatroooms rather than microblogs. If I want to blog I have my full scale blog. This website, to keep me entertained. I bring this up because…

The Day of Snow Poles and Mastodon

Dec 1, 2022

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday during the walk I saw an orange van moving by the side of the road slowly. It was stopping regularly. I crossed the road and looked towards it. I saw an open door and a person placing traffic snow poles into the bollards at the side of the road. Winter is…

Twitter is Dead, Long Live Social Media

Nov 28, 2022

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesLe Roi est Mort, longue vie au Roi (article) is a popular phrase in French. It signifies that if the king died royalty would continue and he would quickly be succeeded. Social media has just entered a new age, I believe. Twitter, Facebook and other giants have grown too big, and algorithms…

The Temptation to Give Up On Social Media

Nov 19, 2022

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richard

in social media, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI find myself tempted to give up on social media and focus on blogging instead. I am tired of social media after decades of use. I am tired that users, that provide all of the value are ignored, and that greedy boards of directors can sell users as if they were lumps…

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