Happy Twitterer and designer Grace Smith started someting called #freelance Friday not too long ago and it was such a success that she’s decided to start something called #themethursday (her original blog post here). People can @ suggest (typically nerdy) themes by Thursday where then everyone bombards her with helpful links, much like if Google [...]
No Clean Feed is the movement against the “plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians.” Interest has peaked again when what appears to be a blacklist was leaked to wikileaks which has since become unavailable, although questions of whether the list was accurate and if wikileaks just collapsed [...]
Tim Beyers and Lydia Dishman decided to start a kind of weekly discussion about issues that editors are wrestling with in today’s perilous world of new media, where blogs reign and the only kind of paper we use is toilet. The actual event comprises topics of discussion that are suggested ahead of time on [...]
At this moment more than 12 firetrucks are attempting to battle a fire in central London, UK, BBC reports. This is incredibly sad, especially after the Camden Market fires not so long ago. Also the first time I’m seeing breaking news on Twitter, Google News hasn’t even really picked it up yet but obviously having [...]
A bunch of pet bloggers (which is apparently a thing) have decided to organise a bunch of activities and contests online revolving around the start of St. Patty’s day. It’s not very clearly explained here but seems to involving waiting to DM things at certain times, the modern radio contest if you will, except with [...]
Short for Modern Warfare 2, a sequel of the immensely popular Call of Duty series that replicates all the bliss of war set in the near future where we battle terrorists! Input for the game is called for and Tweets with #MW2 show up right on the minisite. Actually if you didn’t know what this [...]
AIG is one of the mainstay American financial institutions that deals in insurance affected by the economic crisis and thus sucking on over 170 billion dollars in federal bailout money. Recent whining when AIG’s existing bonus program is still set to pay over 165 million in bonuses to the very asshats that helped bring about [...]
Stands for Top Conservatives on Twitter. I don’t know if I’m happy that the party is embracing the technology or if I’m scared they’ll pollute the nice web 2.0, liberal, lefty interwebs that we live in now. Somewhat stereotypically the site uses Arial and still has the default Joomla favicon.
South by Southwest is a “Music, film, and interactive conference and festival”. Really just a chance for those that Tweet more than they pee and the companies they work for/make money off of to have sponsored parties at bars. There’s also conferences but only nerds go to those.
Apparently Micah Baldwin needed to burn off a Friday afternoon one day and started a new trend. In his words:
I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her. Today its @fancyjeffrey & @w1redone.
And of course everyone loves it because it’s basically that MySpace “top friends” thing all over [...]