Triple-tag references to Twitter posts
0000-0001-5882-6823Further to my post about a protocol for Twitter posts, you can also triple-tag blog posts, Flickr images and similar web utterances, which refer to a specific twitter post (or...
View ArticleProposal: generate KML from postcodes in Twitter messages
0000-0001-5882-6823Here’s an idea I’ve just had, and mentioned on Twitter: It would be cool if someone with the necessary skills and bandwidth could provide a service which takes a Twitter search (say,...
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Fixing Facebook’s Microformats (at their request)
0000-0001-5882-6823Twitter, and the wider ‘blogosphere’, have been alive tonight (UK time), with people commenting on, or mostly simply repeating, the news that Facebook have implemented the hCalendar...
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Portrait with Brompton Bike
0000-0001-5882-6823I had my portrait (or rather, several) taken yesterday, by Pete, aka Dividenthal, as part of his project to record the cyclists of Birmingham. We got in touch on the useful...
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HashMash: My invention of a new hashtag search tool
0000-0001-5882-6823Yesterday, while reading through the hashtags for last Monday’s superb Twicket event (for background, read the Wikipedia article about Twicket, which I wrote), I started to notice...
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Don’t link to my Twitter profile!
0000-0001-5882-6823From time to time, people are kind enough to mention me, with a link, in their blog posts. Usually, in a positive way. I’m very grateful when they do. Lovely links (geddit?)Photo by...
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My interview, about Wikipedia, with Jamillah Knowles, for BBC Radio 5 Live’s...
0000-0001-5882-6823A couple of weeks ago, I reached out on Twitter to Jamillah Knowles, and asked her to kindly record her voice for her Wikipedia biography, as part of the Wikipedia voice-recording...
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