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Twitter and terror

Wenslauw — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:08:15 +0000

It was fascinating to see how people responded on Twitter to the faked elections in Iran. The people on Twitter were among the first to report on what was going on in Iran. Quite a while before the conventional media caught on. Twitter users even started bashing CNN for not picking up the story. #CNNfail became a heavily used tag for a while. It is true that Twitter brought the Iran situation to the attention.

Something just didn’t feel right about it though. Call me a cynic, but I couldn’t believe that so many people were suddenly interested in the fate of Iran. I think it’s quite safe to say that before these elections most of the (Twittering) world couldn’t have cared less about what happens to Iran.

I wasn’t very surprised when I clicked the profile of a few of these ‘protesters’ and found quite a few could be considered Valley girls and boys. The majority of them American I wonder how outraged they were about the last couple of American elections…

Twitter is fashionable and what’s easier than supporting a good cause from your arm chair?

Now it’s done

Wenslauw — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:39:04 +0000

This should fix it completely.

Messed a bit with the WordPress Twitter plugin

Wenslauw — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:36:46 +0000

This could result in an endless loop if I also post tweets on my blog. Better leave that off then. heh

Oh well, here goes…

Twitter & WordPress

Wenslauw — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:32:15 +0000

Well, let’s see how this works. I put a twitter plugin in WordPress. What I blog about is now also sent to twitter.

These days a lot of new software is just about integrating different services it seems.

Llewtube

Wenslauw — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:19:45 +0000

Through Stephen Fry’s twitter account, I came to Robert Llewellyn’s site: Llewtube. Llewellyn is of course the guy who played Kryten in Red Dwarf, a hilarious tv series from the eighties and nineties. On his Llewtube site he drives around some interesting people. Stephen Fry will be in his car too.

Sold!

Wenslauw — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:40:14 +0000

Well, only the espresso machine. The server didn’t get sold unfortunately. I’ve already put it up on an other site. We’ll see what happens there. Quite interesting to sell something on ebay though.

Server on Ebay

Wenslauw — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:15:02 +0000

I’ve put my server on Ebay this evening. True to my nationality I’m asking way too much for it. I’ll probably have to lower the price later. Oh well, the time of me having a server is ending. It’s a bit of a pity as I could do anything I wanted on it, including the Java bot I wrote. It also was kind of cool to be inside the datacenter. It’s a huge place with all this fascinating hardware around you and the constant sound of a storm, because of all the airco units.

Not completely satisfied

Wenslauw — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:11:41 +0000

I’m not completely satisfied with what the blog does when I post a picture in portrait format. I’m using a plugin for posting pictures and despite the fact it’s a great plugin, I’m obligated to use its way of working. Oh well, maybe I should write my own blog software after all. It’s been going through my mind. But where on earth would I find the time?