Shoreditch twat becomes Shoreditch twit

27Jun08

Urban Dictionary defines Shoreditch twat as:
“a new media, fashion student, photographer-type person with a privileged digital or old school arts background who [...]  has an ability to talk about pseudo-intellectual artistic bullshit with no relevance to the real world, completely up their own backsides, and a failure to comprehend that they are the laughing stock [...]

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Tags: events, shoreditch, shoreditch twit, twitter

Social Media – it’s about us…

26Jun08

I first cut my teeth in the blogging world back in 2006 during a stint volunteering in the Dominican Republic. I was teaching English at a school, and the placement was done through an organisation called I-to-I. Since my trip, the site has gone all Web 2.0 with bookmarks, blogs and even a social networking [...]

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Tags: blogging, facebook, rants, social media

Blogger arrests triple in ‘07 – watch your back folks

16Jun08

Over time, blogs have been seen and portrayed as a disruptive publishing technology, a medium for the independent voice, a platform for the little-guy, a tool that enables freedom of expression.
But today’s shock-blogging story emanates from research from the University of Washington which reports that 36 bloggers were arrested in 2007 around the world – [...]

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Tags: arrests, blogging, civil liberties, government, university of washington

North Devon driving fun

10Jun08

Well, it’s not actually driving fun for me, it’s passenger fun.. which was nice. Anyway, I won’t tell this story, but basically instead of blogging for the last week, I’ve been busy creating a video from photos and footage from a glorious weekend in North Devon… what’s the social media angle? Well it’s UGC I [...]

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Tags: cars, travel, video