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Finally… Twitter has ‘got’ me

It was really only a matter of time and two days ago, on Wednesday 28th January 2009, it happened. I finally ‘got’ Twitter.

Or Twitter finally ‘got’ me, I’m not sure which is more correct.

I signed up with a Twitter account some time ago but have never really understood why it was deserving of [...]

‘Kitemark’ could distinguish journalism from ‘web noise’

From Press Gazette:-
A ‘digital kitemark’ to differentiate quality journalism from ‘the noise of the web’ should be introduced, according to a new report published this week.

“A digital kitemark… would identify and differentiate professional journalism amidst the noise of the web,” the report says.

In my experience websites are already pretty good at providing this differentiation already.

A [...]

Links (16th January 2009)

Has it really been almost two months since my last post?! Blimey! OK, let’s get back on the road in 2009 with some recent interesting links…

Road Trip Anyone?If you have a spare 55 days free and fancy journeying from California to Sydney then here are the directions, as supplied by Google Maps. Don’t [...]

Turning the web into print

Thanks to Matt Locke for pointing me in the direction of this lovely newspaper, created by the Really Interesting Group and featuring web content from 23 friends that they thought would work well in print.

Mine only arrived yesterday (#163 from a print run of 1000) and they are now sold out according to the website [...]

ByeBush

The idea is simple, as are all good ideas.At the moment President Elect Barak Obama takes the presidential oath and becomes President Obama we all do the following:-

Take a photo (of anything around us at that moment)
Upload it to the web
Post a twitter with a link to the image and the tag #byebush

And if you [...]