11 June 2009
[bdj] Belle de Jour is on Twitter … ‘Off to discover whether the local Somerfield is as crap as it looks from the outside. And maybe source a takeaway instead.’ [link]
11 May 2009
[history] Samuel Pepys on Twitter … ‘This day come our new cook maid Mary, commended by Mrs. Batters.’ [link]
31 March 2009
[comics] Dave McKean is on Twitter … ‘@stephenfry Surpised you are enjoying Watchmen, so many wonderful comics published since then without silly costumes. Hope you will try…’ [link]
25 March 2009
[twitter] Salam Pax is on Twitter … ‘and to add irony while I sit here listening to bombs going off left’n’right.. Iraqi tv is showing a report about how security is better.’ [link]
24 March 2009
[twitter] A list of things that will get you removed from my Twitter list … ‘Saying good morning, hello, good night to your followers. This is not your personal radio show. This is not an AOL chatroom from 1995. We’ll know when you’ve woken up, because you’ll start twittering. We’ll know when you’ve gone up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire because you’ll have gone quiet, or possibly will have indicated something circumstantially relevant before you went (e.g. “Bugger this, there’s nothing on television: I’m going to bed”).’
1 March 2009
[comics] (Fake) Frank Miller is on Twitter … ‘HOPE ROB LIEFELD DONT SAY BALLS NASTY. FRANKY, HE NO SHIV, HE SAY RELAX, MY MON.’
13 February 2009
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know … ‘I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy…’ [via Metafilter]
6 February 2009
[twitter] Jon Ronson is on Twitter … ‘Hitler had a special cow commissioned. A master cow.’ [link]
18 December 2008
[twitter] Jonathan Ross is on Twitter … ‘wondering what record I should play on first radio show . am maybe “You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone” by radio Birdman. Any thoughts?’
5 December 2008
[comics] On Twitter: Warren Ellis’ Adoring Readership … (more…)
25 January 2008
Why I can’t use Facebook anymore — or rather, why using Facebook is like getting every annoying round-robin email from the last 10 years again … ‘1 how evil are you invitation’ [via Reddit]
5 October 2007
4 October 2007
Facebook and David Cameron … ‘The Tory leader may yet regret drawing attention to an area of the internet where political debate is indeed lively. Others dedicated to Mr Cameron on Facebook include Keep Cameron out of Number 10! (594 members), David Cameron is a twat (71), If David Cameron shows up at Glastonbury festival we will sacrifice him (59), and the particularly popular Stop David Cameron … his lies make baby Jesus cry (1310).’
28 September 2007
[internet] Crackbook — a facebook spoof from David McCandless’ new book – The Internet Now in Handy Book Form …
22 March 2007
[net] Glanced At: ‘sfearthquakes’ on Twitter …
“One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups, ls became (the original) Yahoo!, find and grep became Google, rn became Bloglines, pine became Gmail, mount is becoming S3, and bash is becoming Yahoo! Pipes. I didn’t get until tonight that Twitter is wall for the web. I love that.”
30 November 2005
[myspace] The Hit Factory — Wired on MySpace … ‘[MySpace] encouraged creativity to the point of chaos. For MySpace’s mostly young demographic, their pages were multimedia outgrowths of their jackets, lockers, and notebooks – a place for band stickers, poems, personality quizzes, R-rated photos, and anything else HTML allows.’