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Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!
I recently had a go
at live twittering a conference and what a pain! First, I was flooding my
followers with constant updates. Second, trying to recreate what I live
twittered into a blog post was a nightmare, with me literally having to
cut-and-paste newer twits above the older ones to reconstruct the proper
chronology. There had to be a better way, and now there's one you can try:
Live Twitting. Posted by Danny Sullivan on May. 9, 2008 | Permalink Twitter Spam: Myth Or Reality?
I was intrigued
to read on TechCrunch that Twitter has started blacklisting spammers.
Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily
choose to follow. It's like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming
you. Why did you make them friends, then. OK, there are people who will try to market themselves on Twitter, just as
there are people who will try to do that on any broadcast-style medium. In fact,
we praise many people who market themselves -- pointing at those who have built
up a large Twitter following (see
Tracking Your Twitter Growth With Twitterholic, TwitDir, Tweeterboard & Others)
or a company that uses it as a communication channel. Marketing is not spam. For me, spam is unwanted marketing -- marketing that
comes into your life almost against your will and adds no value to it. In the
real world, it's like junk mail or telemarketer calls. On the web, it's email
from people who got your address somehow, a search listing that's been shoved in
front of you but has no real relevance or other crud that people are so familiar
with. So Twitter spam? How is an unwanted message getting in front of you on
Twitter, to the degree we have this new
Twitter Blacklist. By the way, these are not "known" spammers on Twitter as
defined by Twitter itself. They are people who, as far as I can tell, the
Twitter Blacklist has decided are spammers (in particular,
this post leads to
this discussion where Twitter says it has no public blacklist but does
suspend accounts it feels are abusive or violating its terms). Posted by Danny Sullivan on May. 7, 2008 | Permalink Oh My God! My Village Is Being Invaded!
I've long wanted to do a post about the "German village" that's about a mile from our home in Wiltshire. The British Army uses this as an urban training ground (and a few years ago, an "Iraqi village" sprung up next to it. Living in the middle of the Salisbury Plain training grounds, you get used to things like giant airplanes flying just above the house or tanks firing loudly only a mile away. But imagine my surprise to read on Techmeme that we're about to be invaded by robotic scouts! Well, the German village that is. News.com and New Scientist have more about the competition that's being held. And doesn't it figure -- we'll be gone by the time in August when it happens! Well, I'll get out to the village as I've been meaning to for ages to shoot some photos before it happens. Above, a close-up of the village (very out of date, not showing the Iraqi village). Below, our house in relation to the village. Posted by Danny Sullivan on Apr. 30, 2008 | Permalink Dell Support Or Lack Thereof: My Dell Hell Experience
I know. A story about problems with Dell and customer support aren't new. I
know about Jeff Jarvis,
his experience
and the "been there, done that" feel of another blogger writing about Dell
issues. But coming back from a trip and finding my recently repaired Dell
desktop failing to boot as has been the case on several other occasions -- I've
had it. Like Jeff writing
his open letter
to Dell in 2005 on his newly purchased Powerbook, I compose this letter on my
fairly newly purchased MacBook
Pro. My plea is simple. Empower your customer service people to simply
replace things that don't work rather than making them jump through whatever
procedures you have in place that clearly don't work. Want the longer story?
Then read on. Posted by Danny Sullivan on Apr. 27, 2008 | Permalink Newportus Interruptus
Twelve years after leaving Newport Beach, I'm almost back to living here
again. The past three weeks we've been on vacation in Newport, getting the boys
used to coming back and making various arrangements. And as part of that return,
I've had the strangest sense of a needle dropping back down on a record after
being lifted or a long movie starting again after an intermission. Posted by Danny Sullivan on Apr. 25, 2008 | Permalink Newport Beach Scenes: Sophie Monk Filming "Hard Breakers," World's Most Expensive Baskeball Court & Black Cats
Only one more day left in Newport Beach before heading back to the UK, at
least until the permanent move this summer. Below, a few random photos from
beachside: the filming of Hard Breakers, the world's most expensive basketball
court, a freaky weird cat and the deal with that picture above. Posted by Danny Sullivan on Apr. 25, 2008 | Permalink Twitter Poll Results: How Much Did You Pay For School Lunch?
We visited the school our children will be going to
when we move to
California later this year. How much was lunch, I asked? $2.95 per day. Wow.
I'm old. It was like 55 cents when I was a kid. And I can remember skipping
lunches often in high school (I think I got $1 per day then) to scrape together
some spending money. I twittered
my surprise at the rise in lunch cost and was impressed by the reaction.
Everyone wanted to remark! OK, not everyone, but it was a strong response. So
I asked people
on Twitter to tell me what they paid when they were in school and when that was.
Below, just a fun round-up of what came back. Posted by Danny Sullivan on Apr. 17, 2008 | Permalink
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