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The gamers' voice on the backbenches: ePolitix.com | Dec 2009
Extensive interview with Tom Watson MP - a very interesting man, both an IT geek and a democracy geek
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"My message to them… was transparency and accountability wasn't a goal, it was a process to which we would achieve collaborative democracy using these tools.
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"This is now Britain's youth and under-30s saying we want a different settlement with copyright, don't mess around with the way we live our lives. I just really hope that the Government and the Tory front bench listen to that.
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On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name « Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose
One of the best short articles on the internet.
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The only person I know who’s suffered serious harrassment as a result of expressing opinions on the internet is my very large boyfriend. When it was happening, he felt frightened and powerless, which was the harassers’ secondary goal–the primary one being to make him shut up forever.
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And that guy? Thought you were on his side.
As long as we live in a culture where the good guys sometimes sound just like the misogynists, the misogynists are never going to get the message that they are not normal and that most people–strong, successful men included–do not hate women.
- warning to the rest of us - on 2009-08-20
Gwibber in Launchpad
This desktop client is popular on Identi.ca
(Why are open source projects on proprietary collaboration hosts like Google Code and Launchpad?)
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Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK.
It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS.
SEO 2.0 | The Best 12 Free RSS Readers for Windows, Mac and Linux
BottomFeeder isn't Java, it is Smalltalk
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- RSSOwl - Probably the most popular free open source RSS reader, nice clean interface, support dozens of languages
- BlogBridge - Simple, browser-like interface, also open source and quite popular newsreader
- BottomFeeder - It’s a complex open source RSS reader for the power user
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- RSSOwl - Probably the most popular free open source RSS reader, nice clean interface, support dozens of languages
- BlogBridge - Simple, browser-like interface, also open source and quite popular newsreader
- BottomFeeder - It’s a complex open source RSS reader for the power user
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SOCIALIST UNITY » DEREK DRAPER - YESTERDAY'S MAN DAMAGES LABOUR | April 2009
Sums things up. Sad really.
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I actually do have some sympathy with Derek Draper’s argument that this was a private e-mail conversation, but the mistake Draper made was seeking to get down in the gutter and slug it out with the likes of Paul Staines.
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The electorate respects conviction politicians, and the labour movement project to build a secure and just, better world is a principled and enduring platform that needs to be restored to the heart of left and centre-left politics.
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In place of smear | Ed Mayne | LabourList.org | April 2009
Mayne fears that blogs have dragged politics into the gutter and threaten democracy. I hope not, but I'll wait for more evidence.
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But if he hadn't done it, someone else would have got there eventually. It's up to all of us now to stop this happening again.
Some people tell me that blogging is the future of politics. If this is the case, I very much hope it gets more mature with its increasing importance. -
We can all agree that censorship is not the route to go down. Therefore all political parties and all press and media outlets have a responsibility to regulate themselves
Epeus' epigone: A load of Thunderer
Satire of twitter criticism
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Add Sticky Note“I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘publisher’ is someone who is old and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life,” he says.
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10 Open Source Twitter Clients - And Counting... : OpenSource Release Feed
Lots to try out - some platform specific - some browser specific - and some running on completely free stacks.
Understandably for such a broad survey, there isn't much detail on the usability or usefulness of each one.
SuperNews! Twouble with Twitters // Current
I love it: "None of you have any friends!"
4 minute cartoon preview.
A "Twitter Moment" - Matt Perez
Use case?
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Thanks to Twitter (OK, and email, too), my little microblogging community was able to make my "problem" go away in minutes and without leaving my seat at an event.
Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer
I love this!
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Can you talk about how you approach building “you” as a brand?
Lance Armstrong: Um, hell, I have no idea. Again, I think people are smart. They know when they see something real. I talk about what’s happening “now” and it’s always the real scoop. I’ve been around too long to BS people.
Strategies to combat online extremism are 'crude' - Telegraph
The bias in this article is shocking! It is a proposal for a clandestine Ministry of Truth, or even a Thought Police force, but readers are expected to read between the lines a little to see that.
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These efforts should be replaced by an independent fund to ensure that projects avoid being seen as controlled by government, it concludes.
Samuel Pepys blogs - Telegraph - March 2009
Interesting, but not news. Pepys diary was serialized on the web _years_ ago, in blog format if I recall.
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"It's a simple but brilliant idea. Rather than face down a discouraging brick of a book I read an entry from Pepys a day."
Facebook, Twitter and blogs more popular than email, report says - Telegraph - March 10, 2009
The headline is hugely overblown, but this is still a startling increase in popularity.
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in Britain, with 25.6 million visitors to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Blogger compared with 24.2 million users logging on to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail.
OpenID and OAuth: Why Should We Care?
Clearest explanation I have seen.
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OpenID solves the problem of having far too many usernames and passwords to remember. OAuth solves the problem of how to share information between sites without giving your password from one site to another.
Think Twitter’s the biggest microblogging service? Take a look at SMS GupShup » VentureBeat
Reputedly bigger than Twitter
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SMSgupshup is a pure group SMS Service - where a simple SMS Message is send to multiple people. This can be stock market alerts for example where a broker sends a tip to subscribers on whether to buy/hold/sell a particular stock.
I would strongly contest the statement that more of the posts are from Mobile.
Bike trade tweeps | Bicycle business | News by BikeBiz
OMG - 300 folks in the pro bike world on Twitter, many of them twittering quite seriously. !!! Links to each one - dare you to follow them all.
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Twitter article originally written Nov 08, but the list of bike folks on Twitter updated almost every single day.
Gift Guide for the Twitter addict
Round up of numerous applications - and some humour
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Twitterrific and TweetDeck are nice for the desktop,
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