June 2011
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Government ask Twitter to report people they think...
Twitter,the social media site popular with the likes of raconteur Stephen Fry and columnist Charlie Brooker, will be asked to identify people who are “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism” as part of the government’s redrawn counter-terrorism programme to be detailed on Tuesday.
Stephen Fry
The Prevent programme was developed to combat home-grown terrorism after the 7...
May 2011
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#BestDylanSong, The Twitter List
That’s them all I have no doubt missed a couple of votes, but I don’t think the winner matters, this is a Dylan primer for those who don’t know him, and perhaps a reminder for those who may have forgotten a few along the way.
Thanks to everyone who contributed. The Twitter search for the hashtag is here http://bit.ly/jDkWSO as it may continue for a while yet, but I have stopped...
April 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
WatchGracie, on the slide, recorded using Dee’s crappy phone.
February 2011
4 posts
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – We’re New Here
manxmidge:
David Crosby-If I Could Only Remember My Name
In September 1969 David Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Gail Hinton was killed in a car crash, and her death, and the effect it had on him is writ large throughout this album, which is dedicated to “My Lady Christine”. An album of grief and an album of acceptance and of healing it is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful and underrated albums of the 20th century.
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Are you Spartacus?
It’s been a good while since I’ve blogged about the appeal,and there has been very little written on the @twjoketrialfund account too. This is because, although there is a lot of movement behind the scenes to do with various aspects of the appeal, fundraising etc, there is nothing going on that is tweetable, not yet.
That will change over the coming weeks and until then I have had an...
December 2010
1 post
Adding channels to Sky box.
You can add channels to your Sky box not available through the service, these channels can be viewed after you have cancelled your Sky subscription (obviously pausing/recording etc functions are lost)
To add channels to your “Other Channels” option, do the following -
With your digibox turned on, press the “Services” button (near the top of the remote).
Select number...
November 2010
6 posts
They’re called cluster headaches, and sufferers are pretty rare, about 1 in a thousand, primarily men. They occur on one side of the head only, usually behind the eye or the temple, they tend to occur without much of a warning and it is often described as the worst pain a person can suffer.
They are called cluster because they occur periodically, and have active and inactive cycles. They...
#jokesontrial
Event Details
Below is a reprint of the event details written by @Erica_Jane_MP (Erica Packington)http://bit.ly/jokesontrial
Rally to protect satire, hyperbole, exaggeration, humour and flippancy on the Internet
Ever told a joke that didn’t go down as well as you’d hoped? Paul Chambers did, but instead of just being told to get his coat, he’s been slapped with a criminal...
Appeal total,The Mail & Mr. Fry.
Just a quick note, I will write something longer and more detailed later. The fund has raised just over £5,000 since the verdict was announced which is stunning and heartwarming. It really was overwhelming to watch the email notifications flying in, especially in the first hour or so last Thursday, so thank you. I have begun the process to transfer the money into the trust fund and expect that to...
A Concert for Paul Chambers: And so, it begins... →
aconcertforpaul:
Hello there. If you’re reading this blog I will assume that you are familiar with the plight of Paul Chambers (if not however please read the following blog: tumblr.com/xsqa142m2 )
When the verdict came through on Thursday I, like many Twitter users, was struck with a feeling of despondency and,…
Guilty !
It was not unexpected, it was still a kick in the guts. When the judge accepted the tweet to be menacing in her judgement yesterday morning I think a lot of hope of a favourable outcome disappeared.
But such a long deliberation after lunch, hopes were raised again, surely after this amount of time the appeal would be successful? It’s common sense, of course it was a joke, of course there...
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Paul lassos the moon.
George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary. Mary: I’ll take it. Then what? George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see… and the moonbeams would shoot out of your...
September 2010
3 posts
Ready, Fire! Aim.: Twitter Joke Trial and a thank... →
crazycolours:
This is a quick post because I have packing to do. Tonight we’re flying to England for the Twitter Joke Trial in Doncaster Crown Court tomorrow morning.
I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has given support to Paul and I, everyone who has expressed outrage at the trampling on of his civil…
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The Twitter I Know
I was at a family meal last week and someone was talking about Facebook, when this happens I tense up slightly as (a) I really dislike Facebook and (b) the subject of Twitter is rarely far behind.
Sure enough “What about Twitter? ” was asked, 2 people hadn’t heard of Twitter and my wife’s uncle explained it was a site “where famous people tweet about going to the...
Samples used in DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.
I found this in my notepad on my work computer last week, copied and pasted from god knows where. I always assumed it was Elliot Gould who did the monologue from “Stem/Long Stem” and I reckon I googled that track and found this list. I’m sure it’s incomplete, and I can’t attest to it’s accuracy but I thought it was interesting enough to post. (EDIT Looks like...
August 2010
5 posts
I’ve been away from my @cripesonfriday Twitter account for nearly 4 days now, I’ve answered any DMs/texts/emails I have received asking if I was ok (thanks for those by the way) but otherwise I’ve stayed away, I have tweeted from the @twjoketrialfund account once and the experimental account a half dozen time but that’s about it.
I’ve dropped off the Twitter radar a...
Since I started this experiment I have received 819 DMs and it amazes me how inept some of them are, I don’t read them very often but a sizeable amount of them don’t fit into 140 characters. For example:
richaj2 Hi thanks for following together we will create a better way to this that we call life!Want to make passive on line with this traffic machin (I really want to make passive on...
2001, a cyberspace odyssey.
It took me 22 days to gain 2,000 followers, my total currently stands at 2,001. Progress over the last week, since the 2,000 following limit kicked in,has been slow but steady, gaining about 40 followers a day, but losing about 15 daily too. I have used a couple more sites to gain followers , the simplest of which is also one of the cleverest. I join a list which autofollows the 50 people in front...
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My original thought behind this was “Could I use all of the advice in that article (http://bit.ly/bkgaz6) to gain followers? Could I get as many followers as I have now on my main account? How quickly could I do it? Could I do it in a month?”
In actual fact I surpassed my account in 8 days, and in about 26 tweets, and I followed almost none of the rules, except for the...
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The Twitter Two Thousand following rule.
The story so far, http://bit.ly/bKzLXl (read from the bottom)
It’s been 3 days since I last updated and I now have 1,643 followers, up almost 400 since then, I am following 1644, and therein lies a bit of a problem.It’s not insurmountable, but it involves a bit more effort on my part.
As is stated in the original article that started me on this http://bit.ly/bkgaz6, once you follow 2,000...
July 2010
12 posts
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The "Joke"
@dunchinson @MyMuses have both asked about the joke I had opened the Twitter account for, both of them assuming no doubt that it was a scandalous joke on a par with The Aristocrats that I was too ashamed to tweet from my real account. The truth, as it often is, is far duller than that.
I was involved in a jokey conversation with @glinner and @mkupperman where a murder had been committed and all...
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The Following
Yesterday I had 796 followers, today I have 1,266, a jump of nearly 500 in 22 hours, this time last week the account had 1 follower. I have posted 30 tweets, not a single one has been that interesting, only one has been retweeted, only one has been replied to.
I am following 1,450, a number I will pare down this evening (I am giving people 24 hours to follow back) this evening I will follow...
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The Deadbeats Strike Back.
I have dropped from a high of 833 down to 796 in the last 12 hours, many of these appear to be people who follow, wait until you follow back and then unfollow, so as to appear more popular. Sneaky. Needless to say I have eliminated these “Deadbeats” and now follow 798.
This is the first time the number has gone down instead of up, although it is still up on yesterday’s...
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These are just a page of the DMs I receive from people I follow, friendly bunch aren’t they?
clatko If you want a beta invite to EmpireAvenue.com send me your email address via DM or through latko.org/contact/about 1 hour ago
brandonrofl Hi. My name is Brandon. You should check out my blog - http://brandoniswrite.com and “like” its fb fan page...
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Two days ago I asked my @cripesonfriday account “Why do you use Twitter” ..(in less than 5 words) Yesterday I asked my other account the same question. Below are some of the answers I received from both accounts. Read them,try and guess which account said what, the answer may surprise you.*
*The answer will not, in fact, surprise you.
ACCOUNT 1:
To empty my head out (and hit on...
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The following post is an advertisement.
I also joined http://ad.ly/, which pays people to advertise in their tweets. @kimkardashian , has around 4½ million followers , is paid to advertise with Ad.ly and is allegedly paid $10,000 per advertised tweet.I signed up this morning and will be paid $0.60c per advertised tweet.
I apparently get to approve all ads before they are tweeted in my timeline, I am waiting for an advertiser to get in...
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Twitter season to be jolly, follow la, follow la,...
I gained more followers overnight, I now have 777 and was this morning following 882, the interesting thing(to me anyway) is that despite the difference of just over a hundred between my following/follower list, there were actually 262 I follow that weren’t following me back, this means that about 150 people have started following me, despite me posting nothing of interest.
I am obviously...
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Follow Me.
It’s been about 26 hours since my last post,when I had 230 followers, I pruned more “deadbeat users” who weren’t following and then, about 2 hours ago, I followed a new list of people guaranteed to follow back.I now have 528 followers and am now on 3 lists. I have received 230 DMs.
Yesterday I asked on my main account why do people use twitter, I got about 30 answers,...
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I Will Follow.
A quick update on the Twitter account I set up (Details http://bit.ly/92XuH8) I didn’t do anything with it over the weekend because frankly the thoughts of trawling through for stories didn’t appeal. So I didn’t post anything at all since Friday when I had 148 followers.
This morning I have 230 followers,which is not a bad return but I decided to prune back on all those not...
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Follow Me, And I'll Follow You
I was browsing around articles about Twitter when I found this http://bit.ly/bkgaz6 which tells of the best way to gain followers, all of them are the opposite of what I do on Twitter, and seemed cynical, and moreover I didn’t believe the tactics would work.
I’ve been on Twitter nearly 2 years, have written over 40,000 tweets and have just under 1,300 followers (I’ve not gotten...
When Grace was born I sobbed, I held her for the first hour of her life while they stitched Dee up and she opened her eyes and I fell in love with her. Right from the start I was the one who could get her to sleep, I was the one who burped her. She slept on my chest as I played GTA IV.
When Aimee was born I didn’t cry, I didn’t fall in love with her. I felt…almost indifferent to...
On June 17th Dee, who at this stage was ten days overdue,woke me to tell me she thought her waters had broken. She “felt a pop” and there was leakage. She rang the midwife in the maternity hospital who asked her had she experienced any contractions.Dee told her no, and the midwife told her to relax. Dee had an appointment the next day at 11am and she should just come in a bit earlier,...
June 2010
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Why Scrappy?
A few people have asked me why the baby is called “Scrappy”, perhaps expecting a heartwarming story about a tough little foetus that braved the odds. The reason that Scrappy is called Scrappy is because in Scooby Doo, they had a perfect cartoon that everyone was content with,when suddenly Scrappy Doo came along and ruined it all for everyone.
There is precedent for my naming of the...
May 2010
11 posts
sarc.: Crying wolf. →
I try and teach my kids one important lesson each day, whether it be “Don’t put your hand in a garbage disposal”, or “Love one Another”.
Today I tried to teach them the story of the boy who cried wolf, in order to portray the importance of only telling stories that were true.
I finished up with…
Gracie on the fly.
Grace spent Tuesday night staying at my parent’s house so Dee & I could go out for a meal.She loves staying there and always has a great time.
The highlight of her stay this time was the discovery of a fly in the attic, bouncing against the skylight. She spent a happy 45 minutes with her granddad shouting “get out fly” and “go away fly ” to the insect.She now...
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Brief update on the appeal fund.
The fund now stands at just under £5,000 which is incredible, thanks to everyone who has donated and tweeted and retweeted and blogged or did anything to spread the word.
I was asked earlier on Twitter where the rest of the money goes, now the fund has easily cleared the original expenses and fine. The simple answer is it is going towards the appeal. Jackofkent has secured an excellent appeals...
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Paul Chambers related links in one post.
SEND ME YOUR VIDEOS OF YOU (OR YOUR CHILDREN,OR YOUR DOG) SAYING “I AM SPARTACUS” DETAILS HERE: http://bit.ly/hIKf67 THANKS
MOBILE SITE USERS, THE ABOVE BUTTON IS FOR YOU.ENJOY IT AND USE IT WELL.
There are now 3 donate buttons on this page. on top there, on the left and down the very bottom of the page.
THANKS FOR ALL THE DONATIONS.
UPDATE: Preiskel BREAKING -...
Positivity (from me!)
Last October Christina Martin (http://twitter.com/christinamartin)wrote a blog (http://christinalouisemartin.blogspot.com/2009/10/please-vote.html) about Isla, a beautiful girl who has Down’s Syndrome and who was in the running to be the face of Kinder chocolate. I retweeted Christina’s messages, and for the month or so a small army of us did our little bit, tweeting about it, and voting...
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Quick Update & Some Thoughts.
It’s been a hectic couple of days, organising the @TwJokeTrialFund account was fairly straightforward, but remembering the name is a nightmare, I have written so many variations of it that the auto-suggest on my computer has just given up, when I type “TwJ” now the pc shrugs, says “You’re on your own mate” and ignores me while I search for the name on someone...
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Twitter jokes on trial: how one tweet made a man a... →
crazycolours:
inthefade:
“Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!“
And with that tweet, the life of Paul Chambers took a very wrong turn.
This is the story of Paul Chambers (boyfriend of crazy colours), whose offhand - if ill-conceived - joke has led him down a five month path of frustration,...
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Ready, Fire! Aim.: twitter joke trial fund →
Hey guys, I thought I’d cross post this from my wordpress blog, as I’m aware that the twitter joke trial fund has received a few donations from reading about the prosecution on Michele’s (inthefade) post on here about it.
Verdict: Guilty.
We’re not talking about a trial for murder here. We’re…
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Twitter Joke Trial Fund
Paul Chambers (http://twitter.com/pauljchambers) was found guilty today after sending a tweet,(details here http://bit.ly/hackofkentsummary ) he has been fined £1,000 and now has a criminal record. His total expense now is approaching £2,000, not a small sum to anyone really, more so when you realise that a criminal record scuppers his chances of qualifying as an accountant.( I realise...
Mother's Day:
ruthakers:
Aubree: Mom. You look like you’re losing weight.
Me: Thank you Aubree. That’s very nice of you.
Aubree: My Teacher said to tell you something nice today for Mother’s Day. I picked that. Even if it isn’t true.
Me:…
She did do the dishes. I guess I’ll let it slide.
Eloquently Twisted: Lost Socks →
Once upon a time there lived a man who was convinced that the lost socks of the world ended up in his house. Regularly he’d find a sock our two that weren’t his, in fact he never wore socks, they’d be under his bed, behind the sofa, he even found one in the bed.
He thought the lost sock fairies…
April 2010
2 posts
The Twitter playground.
Haha, you’re a silly person
Don’t be rude, be happy
You’re a rude word
you’re a worse rude word
don’t call her a rude word you incredibly rude word
go away, you are weird looking
hey everyone, he’s saying rude words to her, come and see
oh you’re weird looking too
you’re being very rude word
I rude word your mum
rude word
rude
don’t...
