I’ve long said that to complain someone is using Twitter wrong is like complaining that they are using paper wrong. It’s a medium for communication, so most criticisms of usage are really just criticisms of what is being communicated. While some people might disagree that others should be saying what they are saying at all…
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Censorship, Storefronts, and Publishing: the #AmazonFail
Amazon.com has been offering a “We won’t censor writers” defense for offering Kindle books for sale in their Kindle store that have some pretty nefarious content. The book being focused on today appears to be a how-to manual for crimes against children. (Cynical Editor’s Note: I don’t know of anyone who has downloaded and actually…
#LastTweets: Mysteries created and solved in 140 characters
I have discovered the secret, mysterious, hilarious and sometimes sad messages of the those who are no longer among us. I have discovered #LastTweets. I was using Twit Cleaner to peruse the accounts of those I followed on Twitter who had been absent for a while, unfollowing dead accounts and those posting too infrequently for…