January 2012
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Frictionless Sharing and the Gruesome Death of...
The whole concept of automated sharing makes my skin crawl, it really does. The social web is built around the sharing of thoughts, opinions, beliefs, attitudes, information and pictures of cats. And that’s fine; I love a good LOLcat as much as the next man. But when did it become reasonable to share the stuff you’re doing, reading and listening to without so much as clicking a button?
There’s a...
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Give Twitter an iOS5 style theme
Twitter introduced a new user interface at the back end of last year, for both the web and IOS.
The Twitter app for iPhone boasts a clean interface with a blue bar at the top, while the browser app contains a black bar.
If you want to change your Twitter web app theme so that it mirrors the iPhone app (blue bar, as opposed to black), you can do it using Stylish.
Stylish - a Chrome Web...
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Daniel Dalton: How to not be an asshole on Twitter →
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Twitter is full of assholes. Writers, here’s how to not to be one of them;
To do;
Be interesting, funny and unique; you’re a fucking writer after all
Be consistent; both in voice and in frequency of tweets
Be personal, not a robot
Follow other writers and readers
Follow people…
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Articles written by Adam Leventhal: Adam Leventhal... →
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Sky Sports News Presenter Adam Leventhal is a lifelong Watford supporter. In his latest column he talks to Daily Telegraph football Correspondent Henry Winter about the past of Phil Brown, his present obsession with Twitter and the future of the newspaper …
The epic ‘followship’ of…
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Daniel Dalton: Cut The Bullshit: Make Time To... →
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Everyone wants to write, but no one has the time, or so they say. I say bullshit.
John Grisham used to work 15 or 16 hour days when he was a lawyer, but he resolved to write one page a day of his first novel when he got home from work.
That novel became A Time To Kill, and although…
