Tag: twitter
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Cassetteboy vs Jeremy Hunt
Love this – and as I’ve said on my Twitter and FB – I support the Junior Doctors and hate this scaremongering about ‘deaths’ – you’ll receive FAR better care today than you would on a normal day when the over-worked junior doctors are pulling long shifts without cover from consultants and GPs. That’s why…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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Greg Wilson’s Monster 40th mix
There are a few DJ’s I’ve seen and I’ve had a ‘WE’RE NOT WORTHY!’ moment with – Rodigan is one, Mark Moore is another and Greg Wilson definitely belongs to that group. He makes it look and sound so effortlessly easy. He’s been DJing professionally for 40 years, and so did a 5 hour mix…
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Forced Exposure
I suspect this wonderful Oatmeal comic is both a response to HuffPost raping his bandwidth and also what happened to Wil Wheaton when they wanted ‘free’ content. (This is why I repost images and give credit; certainly despite Flattr – thank you those who have donated – it doesn’t cover the costs, as a truly…
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A Sacco Offense: Gawking, Trolling and seeing Red(dit)
Great video about shaming and Justine Sacco from Jon Ronson. I was online that night and felt the same as he did, the unease at the online mob, and actually I did post about it, defending her as not being malicious – note I didn’t mention her initially by name. I didn’t need to, every…
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All Hail The New Podcasters (Again x 10)
It seems every few years someone comes along and claims that not only did they and only they fashion podcasting in their own image, but that the revolution is finally here, and the money will fall from heaven shortly. The latest is this hyperbolic Verge article and video called hopefully ‘The Future Is Podcasts’ –…