TheWayoftheWeb

I’ve finally started upgrading the back end of this blog to start tackling the increasingly important issue of connecting with the discussions posts can prompt in a myriad of places.
Whereas discussion was generally confined to the Comments section in days of old, now it can spring up on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed etc.
As a commenter, I’ve [...]

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Happened across this post, via Antony Mayfield.
Regardless of the actual post, what really caught my eye was in the comments by Chris Wheal:
First:
‘Let me reiterate a principle of journalism: You contact the subject of a story and put the allegations to them before you publish.
Had you done so – contacted the NUJ or me, as [...]

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Found on CrunchGear, and originally on Boing Boing Gadgets is a great example of one or more people spamming the comments of everywhere they can find to promote a new phone by Motorola. One comment on Boing Boing demonstrates how much hard work this individual has been doing to shoehorn his stock comment into completely [...]

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The news is probably somewhat underwhelming, but I’m going to have limited internet access, if any, for the next 7-10 days. I didn’t want you anyone thinking I’d given up or vanished! It’s come at a good time as I’m re-evaluating the purpose of www.140char.com to offer something which is unqiue and complimentary to other [...]

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