When I was growing up you didn’t vacuum clean the house, you hoovered it. More recently, to google something was synonymous with the internet search engine. And – like it or not – Twitter had its whole own vocabulary synonymous
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Category: Technology
It is ease of use, and ease of search, that’s going to make or break a Twitter alternative. Not the ethics.
For years I have been fighting a losing battle with friends – trying to make them see that the choices of the tech they use should be similar to how they choose what food to buy, or how to travel
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From #UKriots on Twitter, to Bluesky and Mastodon – it’s only once we lose something that we are conscious of why it mattered
Back in the summer of 2011 I had a bit a tricky conundrum. I needed to get from Bow in East London to Camden in North London avoiding the riots that were happening at that time. And ideally I needed
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How Twitter’s role as pre-eminent social media in EU politics ends
When Twitter pulled out of the EU’s voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation, European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton of course took to Twitter to respond: https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1662194595755704321 Breton has a presence on open source, decentralised rival Mastodon –
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The demise of Twitter: don’t whine, organise!
Out of the window of the train just north of Brussels you can see the poster pictured here – Niet panikeren, organiseren it says. Don’t panic, organise in English. The past few days a slightly alternative slogan has been on my mind. Don’t whine,
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In EU politics we treated Twitter as a social network, not as digital public infrastructure – and built it all on a platform we do not control
Looking back it was a pretty good dozen years in many ways. From when I started using Twitter for EU political purposes early in 2009 until it all started to go wrong throughout 2022 I managed to achieve a hell
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WordPress spring cleaning – especially Media files
This blog has been running 17 years, and a good 14 of those the blog has been powered by WordPress. But in that time not only how I write has changed, but the way WordPress organises everything has changed a
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Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty.
I’m not going to get into a discussion about whether what Musk is doing to Twitter is by accident or by design. All I know is that Twitter is, at the time of writing, a network I no longer want
Continue readingFrom foreboding to a glimmer of hope in a week – the switch to Mastodon is on
Years ago I used to run a little parody account on Twitter. Nothing major, nothing dangerous – just gently joking about a European Commissioner. The bio even said it was a parody. And then, from one day to the next,
Continue readingTweetbot 6 review: hello old friend, we might meet again, but not just yet
As a very heavy Twitter user, for years I was a fan of Tweetbot on iOS, an independent Twitter app made by Tapbots. Using an independent app made sense as I could configure how everything would display according to my
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No, I am not about to start a newsletter or a podcast
A Twitter thread by Jeff Jarvis caught my eye yesterday. “I far prefer blogs to email newsletters & podcasts” Jeff wrote, and I agree with him. I mused about why this was over my morning espresso. I pondered further during
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€21.95 to make your webinars a whole lot better
I had to move flat in the middle of the Coronavirus lockdowns in Berlin and one of my aims for my new workplace in the new flat was that it would all be set up as well as possible for
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