After having what felt like a slew of misreadings of text due to skimming too fast, small font sizes, deteriorating vision, immaturity etc. I decided to create ( Read more... )

I never used Google Reader, so am only peripherally aware of the hue and cry over its shutdown.

I'm no Internet trends or economics expert, but I did find this interesting and plausible (I think I got this from someone on FB):

RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability, but the big players don't want that -- ( Read more... )

America's worst charities: "organizations that took in more than $1 billion over the past 10 years, and gave almost all of that money to their own staffs and professional solicitors."

The first things ever posted at famous websites: includes links to the first YouTube upload, the first tweet, and the first LJ post ( Read more... )

It's Hard To Tell When The Onion's Twitter Account Gets Hacked, Because It's The Onion

I saw the articles/tweets they ran afterward but didn't realize they were making fun of themselves for something that actually happened.

Which is why what now appears to be a hack attack on The Onion’s Twitter account was initially confusing to many, as the ( Read more... )

via Perry Friedman on Facebook, man builds chair that tweets his farts:

According to my coworker, Twitter is supposed to happen in that space between Flickr posts and Facebook updates, in the space when life actually happens. Well, in the space of time "when life actually happens," life actually happens. It is neither pretty nor ugly. It is just ( Read more... )

I have twitter set so you have to submit a request to follow me, and in the last couple days it seems like I'm getting a lot of follow requests from what I assume are spambots. Accounts with female names and photos followed by a small # of random characters, and although they follow several hundred other people, none of them are in common with the ( Read more... )

via slashdot, the BBC reports that Libya is cracking down on inappropriate .ly domains:

Co-founder of vb.ly Ben Metcalfe warned that "other ly domains are being deregistered and removed without warning ( Read more... )

via boingboing, supposedly 3% of Twitter's infrastructure is dedicated to Justin Bieber.

When we asked Curtis who the Twitter employee is, he said his source is someone "who would know such things. I obviously can't give you his name. But I trust that the information is absolutely correct." So maybe you'd better believe it. Bieber consistently ( Read more... )

This is depressingly stupid. Twitter mobile does not have a way to approve new followers, and it refuses to recognize the Treo browser as having Javascript. So if you aren't already an approved follower, sorry, you'll have to wait until I get home.

Meanwhile, I'm at Blue 262-6 near the rail.

When you need TP for your bunghole. Fortunately someone was able to spare a square:

Last week, he found himself stranded in the third floor toilet of an electronics store in Akihabara with a soiled ass and no toilet paper. So he sent out this tweet: "[Urgently needed] toilet paper in the 3rd floor toilet of Akiba Yodobashi." Five minutes later, ( Read more... )