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Feb 15  10

Twitter is an evolving social media platform. And like any evolving social media platform there are many who seek to take advantage of it and generally make it an unpleasant experience for genuine users. The following is a list of people, people defined by specific character traits, that I suggest you avoid on Twitter in [...]

101 people to avoid on Twitter

Nov 03  09

Stephen Fry, British actor and highly influential Twitter user, caused uproar, online and offline, when he recently Tweeted his intention to quit Twitter. And all because 1 of his followers called him boring. understand @stephenfry’s tweets but, much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit… boring…. (sorry Stephen). That was all [...]

The Stephen Fry conundrum that throws Twitter’s credibility into question

Sep 18  09

A little over a year ago my wife and I went to see The Dark Knight. We walked out. The heavy handed advertising that wasted our time before the movie started destroyed our enjoyment of what was, and is, an excellent piece of work. So incensed by the whole experience I blogged about it here. [...]

Agent of chaos

Sep 16  09

Update 15.49 GMT. A few hours after this post went live, at 15.36 GMT, September 16 2009, I received an aggressive cease and desist letter, scanned and emailed to me, from what appears to be the legitimate legal representative of EMI. The letter demands that I remove this blog post immediately. It could be fake. [...]

Meet the music industry’s new misinformation puppet and learn how to benefit from her tricks