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The misnamed JustUnfollow

Recently I’ve been wishing for something that could tell me which of the people I follow were following me back. It’s something that Twitter deliberately don’t make it easy for you to find out. I recently found out about JustUnfollow, a service that gives you a list of which of the people you follow follow you, [...]
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Inflexible dealing

Marshall Kirkpatrick on Read Write Web was inspired by the recent Library of Congress decisions to write a post in praise of Fair Use. He argues that Fair Use is not just acceptable, but that is it essential for the future. I tend to agree that there is significant value in it being easy and [...]
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Social watching

Rupert Howe started a conversation on the videoblogging list the other day about a post Clintus McGintus made on his blog called The Videoblogger is Dead. In the discussions on the list and on Clintus’s blog there is (among some people) a disappointment that videoblogging hasn’t turned out to be the rewarding social experience it once [...]
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Great minds

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt (supposedly) Where did this piece of codology come from? Surely nobody as well-respected as Eleanor Roosevelt would have said something as dumb as this out loud? First of all, even if you accept that what people discuss (rather than the perspicacity with which they [...]
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Nooner

Last night we watched High Noon. It’s interesting on pacifism. Is pacifism just a lazy way of not having to ever make a stand for anything? What kind of morality can there be in standing up for what you believe in if you put your own life and the lives of people you love at risk? But [...]
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Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services

Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
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The mobile web - will Android make it interesting? « Derivadow.com

The mobile web - will Android make it interesting? « Derivadow.com
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Protection of journalist sources at the centre of the Zahopoulos affair in Greece - currybetdotnet - 14 January, 2008

Protection of journalist sources at the centre of the Zahopoulos affair in Greece - currybetdotnet - 14 January, 2008 Journalistic ethics in Greece. Interesting.
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24/7 TV news websites: Part 3 - BBC - currybetdotnet - 10 January, 2008

24/7 TV news websites: Part 3 - BBC - currybetdotnet - 10 January, 2008 Martin Belam again. This time he’s talking about 24-7 TV news websites. He has some very interesting things to say about the potential confusion caused by the way that BBC News is branded online.
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Multiplatform radio - the benefits - blog - James Cridland

Multiplatform radio - the benefits - blog - James Cridland There’s a video with this that shows some of the ideas for multiplatform radio in the UK.
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