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I WANT MY FACEBOOKS BACK NOW PLZ!!!1!
Following a tweeted link to “the funniest comment thread ever”, I spent a few minutes laughing at the expense of hundreds of confused Facebookers. They had been leaving comments on a ReadWriteWeb blog post about a recent venture with AOL to share login access. It took me a few seconds to get the joke: there…
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How long ago were the ’90s?
I’m sat downstairs in my house in Shropshire, sipping Rioja and listening to Green Day and trying to imagine music which more resonates with the decade in which we of Orwell’s blight came of age. This is the last year of the ’90s being only last decade. Everyone born in the ’70s will soon be…
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A bad year for hearts…
I’ve always found it difficult to blog about truly emotive things. I might get worked up over a technological failing or annoyed about a political situation, but these things are abstractions: I can hold them out and have a look at them. Something held close to my chest, though? Well, it’s too close for comfort—too…
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Democracy and the Web: the UK gets it while America tries to control it.
I read yesterday that twitter has been banned from the White House. In the post, Marshall Kirkpatrick joked that this could be a reason we haven’t seen much from Obama’s twitter stream recently. I must admit however, my initial reaction was sympathetic with the White House for pragmatic reasons, though the attitude of the Press…
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twitter – cloud
I’ve been playing with twitter statistic-stuff a bit lately, and finding it interesting if not purposeful. A company called tweestats will graph your twitter updates; showing you trends, charts, and a “tweetcloud” which shows you your most-used words. I’ve changed mine to a wordle, and thought I’d share it: <img src="https://www.zachbeauvais.com/host/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Twitter1"
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Update on Kiva.org
I’ve blogged about Kiva before, and my impression of them and their work keeps growing. Instead of talking more about how great they are, and how they make a huge difference, I’d like to simply host a very short documentary-promotion video about them. If you’d like more information, obviously, you can go to http://www.kiva.org. If…
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New pup
I just picked up an 8-week old pup. He’s a black lab/plummer terrier cross. I’m thinking of calling him Lucas. Both of his parents are steady and bidable workers: the sire being used for picking up, the dam for ratting. He’s met the kitteh, and didn’t move too much when she tapped him on the…
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Sticky Web App launched from Adaptiveblue
For me, one of the things which makes the idea Semantic Web so fascinating is the idea that “stuff” online is treated as real. What I mean is that the things we like online, are very often the things we like offline: people, books, wine, and gadgets are obvious examples. When I ogle the new…
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Utility computing in the Cloud
It is usually more interesting and educational to see a good heart-felt debate than complete agreement so you are in for a treat if you take the time to read the following from Nick Carr, Tim O’Reilly and the Smoothspan blog. You can see from the debate that economics is at the heart of the discussion…