social media insanity

On the back of the mummy blogging issue, I was thinking a lot about my "status" as a mother, and the fact that I get annoyed if I am wedged into a predefined genre of "mummy blogging", purely because I happen to have children.

Am I defined by being a mother?

Dear Twitter, there was a time, when our relationship was new and shiny, where I woke up in the morning with a feeling of titillating excitement at what I might have missed while I wasted time sleeping. I devoured the new tweets with fervour, eager to begin tweeting my own events of the day. At first I carefully checked out each new follower, and blocked those who I deemed not worthy (or not real). And then I started to follow more and more people, and more people started to follow me. I grew tired of checking out porn, so I gave...

I've just bitten the bullet and created an account at blogher.com. If you don't know what that is, don't worry - neither did I when I decided to keep this blog regularly. Despite posts dating back to 2007, I am still pretty new to the world of blogging in the terms of the "blogosphere" concept. My entry into this conceptual zone was marked by the decision that a) despite declaring that I don't blog, I actually had been, and that b) if I was going to blog, shouldn't I get some readers? So I did a bit of research...

SciFiGuy asked about copyright in the general forum at support, and since I can't reply in that forum, I PMed him some information instead, as I find copyright interesting. But then I thought that maybe we should share this here as it's already a hot topic in another thread. Hi SciFiGuy Copyright applies to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete and fixed in a medium. Source: Wikipedia Copyright is automatically attributed - if you wrote it, you own it. However, that doesn't mean if you write the words "I love you" that you...

yuku have started a company blog for the third time. Depending on your local customs, three is either a charm, or bad things happen in threes! So only time will tell if this blog will be interesting, regularly updated, relevant and/or honest. yuku's previous blog, and the one on ezboard both suffered from a serious lack of content. Due to a policy of not revealing what is going on behind the scenes, neither of them could muster up anything that even passingly masqueraded as an insight. Their other major downfall was relying on a single person to make updates. This...

I was reading next months .net magazine today, and there was a column inch dedicated to twitters over heard in the "twittersphere" (actually, that should be over read, right?) Oh.My.God, in a month of publication time, the best 8 twitter snippets that they could find to print were pointless and banal sentences that would have slotted in nicely in a converstation between two people, but had no interest or relevance to anyone else in the entire world - nay, galaxy. Here's one: "My design process is like a drunk night out. I know where i'll start, but no idea where...

I was reminded yesterday of one of the things I was not sorry to leave behind when I stopped working for yuku, and that is the incredible childishness and self absorbed behaviour of a small number of the member base. Someone "anonymously" tipped me off about a thread that had disturbed her. She didn't like to see people portrayed in a negative light, and wanted me to be aware of it. My first reaction was "don't look!" I've seen so many topics about me on and off yuku in the past 5 years that I know better than to bother...