Social Media

A collection of 12 posts

What to do about social media?

For the last day or so, my feeds have been awash with very valid criticism of the inauguration and that salute. But after leaving Twitter, places like Bluesky felt like a breath of fresh air. People were talking about other stuff again. It wasn't politics every other post.

22 Jan 2025 1 min read

Personal

Goodbye, Twitter

In December 2006, I heard about this new thing called Twitter. I had no idea what it was but all my web designer and developer friends were joining so I created my account and got on with tweeting about what I was eating for lunch. Back then, it really was

19 Nov 2024 2 min read

Social Media

End of social? (For me, at least)

Twitter continues to circle the drain. Since Elon took over, the steady increase in spam accounts and ads for shit products has resulted in a very poor experience. I used to love Twitter. For years, it was consistently the best place for discussions with friends and a great way to

03 Aug 2023 1 min read

Social Media

The genius of Threads onboarding

With Twitter continuing to circle the drain, the race to take it's place is picking up pace with the FOMO-inducing invite-only approach of Bluesky and open floodgates of Threads by Meta. I joined both this week so had the opportunity to reflect on the stark difference of the

07 Jul 2023 1 min read

Social Media

Facebook free

I opened my Facebook account in 2007. At the time, I was deemed a bit of a late-comer to the system and for a long time I resisted. I had Twitter for friends far away, I saw my local friends every few days back then. I think I even still

10 Jun 2019 2 min read

Web

Merging lives

Activity in social media has grown exponentially over the last ten years. It's gone from a way to simply keep in touch with friends to sharing scores of information with the world. The things we watch, read, the places we visit and the things we see in our

09 Aug 2012 1 min read

Community

Out of context

I read a news item on the BBC this morning about an MP who used Twitter to voice an opinion on a recent court case. It resulted in a backlash but the offending tweet was said to have been taken out of context. Everyone has the right to voice their

01 Jan 2012 1 min read

Photography

McD, WTF?

Sometimes I get rather confused by things I see on the web. Some I can fathom out and apply some sort of explanation, others I struggle to understand at all. This photo has led to one such time where I'm confused by what people enjoy on the web.

18 Dec 2011 1 min read

Web

A change of location

I first started using Gowalla about 18 months ago. I only used it for a few check-ins but I was addicted by the end of the first day. I loved the idea of keeping a record of the places I went to and enjoyed knowing where friends were at any

05 Dec 2011 2 min read

Web

Simply delicious

I'm a relatively new user of Delicious [http://delicious.com/nocturnalmonkey], despite signing up some time ago, I only actually started to use it regularly in October last year. Since then I've become addicted to it. It's been almost a year since I bookmarked

06 Jul 2010 2 min read

Technology

The future is geo-based

Yesterday, photo-sharing website, Flickr, published an article [http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/06/23/a-new-photo-experience-your-photos-happier/] detailing a number of improvements they've made to the user interface. Among them a more prominent Map feature, allowing users to add geo-location data to their photos which harks back to my

24 Jun 2010 1 min read

Social Media

User-generated advertising

ecently I've become a regular user of Gowalla [http://gowalla.com/], a location based social networking app which allows you to tell friends where you are via Twitter and Facebook. Using the iPhone GPS, it finds your location and provides you with all the information it has on

06 May 2010 1 min read

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