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Ask the readers: How do you protect yourself online?
In my last post, Privacy, identity and control on the web, I talked about about how important it can be to take control of your online presence. But I got to thinking: What do you do to protect your privacy and/or identity on Facebook, Twitter or the rest of the web? Please share your thoughts [...]
Privacy, identity and control on the web
Recently, my dad contacted me to ask some advice about Facebook: a friend of his (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) had been a victim of Facebook identity theft. The friend is a school teacher, and unbeknownst to him, someone or other had set up a Facebook profile in his name with his photo [...]
Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?
I have several reasons for writing this post. Chief among them is curiosity: I like pulling the universe to bits and poking it to see what happens, and I’m genuinely interested in finding out how readers of this blog actually keep up to date with the blogosphere. Second, I’ve spent a lot of time in [...]
Mobile blogging with Posterous
Followers of my twitter stream will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my Posterous account from Shrewsbury Folk Festival.
Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace
If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I [...]
Weekly links: blogging, books and business
Here are a few things that have caught my eye this week and I thought might interest you as well. open…: 10 Things to Build a Blog Readership — I’ll certainly be following these tips. I feel that particularly the first is relevant to practically anything you do. On active reading (aka highlighting books religiously) [...]
Ask yourself: "What is this for?"
I heard an interesting anecdote a while back. I don’t know how true it is, but bear with me because it serves to illustrate a point. The story goes that when the first motion-picture camera was invented, it was intended to be used to create photographs in which the people could move, smile, wave, whatever; [...]
Beginners guide to Twitter Part III: cool tools
Time for the third part of my beginners guide to Twitter. Here’s how far we’ve got: Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching; Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs; Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (this post). Today, I’ll be making a whistle-stop tour of some of the tools and websites that can take [...]
Beginner's guide to Twitter Part II: @s, #s and RTs
So, here’s the second part of what’s become a three-part introduction for new Twitterers. Here’s where we are so far: Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching (yesterday); Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs (this post); Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (coming tomorrow). Let’s get on with the second part, on some of [...]
Beginner's guide to Twitter Part I: messages, followers and searching
I’ve recently signed up to Twitter. It’s not a new thing; it’s been around for a few years and it’s probably safe to say that I’m way behind the curve on this one. For those who haven’t come across it yet, it’s a very, very simple social networking site which allows you to broadcast 140-character [...]
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