I first started looking down the lists of lists, the Twitter lists list, to see if there were any that I had to remove myself from. One removes oneself from Twitter lists by blocking the person who created the list. Stands to reason. I thought I’d remove myself from any list like “bitch” or “annoying”, and go downhill from there. After all, we are told time and again that online, give people half a chance and they will be negative, right? Negative reviews, negative comments, negative ratings, negative words, negative all the way. Which begs the question that if the only conversations online are bad, why would you go there? Wouldn’t you be terrified every time someone followed you on Facebook or Twitter?

Ghostmunching on Twitter

Ghostmunching on Twitter

But as I read down the list I went from nervous to smiling to a bit gooey -not a single public negative list in over 300 I am on -here’s a few that were special to me: Continue reading »

 

Darren Rowse, Australia’s number one blogger is on the speaking circuit.

 

Australian Marketing Now social media conference speakers include Chris Brogan, Laurel Papworth, David Armano, Jim Stewart, Darren Rowse (Problogger), Stephen Johnson in Melbourne September 22/23rd.

 

I found OpenId very hard to set up and manage. I think it’s because there aren’t many uses for it, if you aren’t a developer, and it’s simply not used on sites enough. Plus I didn’t want to read pages of text – a graphic walkthrough suitable for a 3 year old suits me just fine, fanks. But ClaimID implementation is a different matter. Over the last few months there’s been a lot of discussions around our identity on the ‘net. For me – and I don’t think, in spite of what Lynne Spender said, that I’m that eccentric – Continue Reading…

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