The BBC London 2012 twitter account has been posting pictures and videos from behind the scenes of the Olympic preparations. This is the view from the cheap seats in the Olympic stadium and it's looking pretty good.
Via: @Clarkey4boro
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Go To Sleep!
Why are you still awake?
Why are you messing about on the internet when you should be tucked up in bed?
Via: CollegeHumor.
Why are you messing about on the internet when you should be tucked up in bed?
Via: CollegeHumor.
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Cyanide & Happiness
The folks at Explsom! are probably best known for their fantastic web comics:
But they also create animated shorts which I really adore and I thought I'd share a few with you. (Warning - Most of these are probably a bit NSFW)
The Sign
Short and to the point, as is...
The Race
Here's two slightly longer ones to finish up, and of course I've saved the best one for last:
Beer Run
Waiting For The Bus
If you like their stuff check out them out at Explosm! or follow them on Twitter (@Explosm)
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| That's some funny stuff right there! |
But they also create animated shorts which I really adore and I thought I'd share a few with you. (Warning - Most of these are probably a bit NSFW)
The Sign
Short and to the point, as is...
The Race
Here's two slightly longer ones to finish up, and of course I've saved the best one for last:
Beer Run
Waiting For The Bus
If you like their stuff check out them out at Explosm! or follow them on Twitter (@Explosm)
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
And now for something completely different
Like many would be bloggers, I've found it difficult to keep up the necessary levels of motivation and dedication required to continually update a blog. For me this is often because I'm distracted by many other things and find it difficult to come up much to say on just a single topic. It's very much a case of my being too widely spread, and at the same time shallow in my thinking. Recognising that I am unlikely to change this any time soon I have decided to embrace rather than repress this side of me and provide blog content which more closely mirrors the magpie like nature of my intellect.
Oh a shiny thing... where was I?
"I like to share things I find on the internet." That's kind of my catchphrase and is evident in the number of links I post on Twitter and Facebook. Believe it or not, I restrain myself from posting everything I would like to share for fear of overwhelming people even more than I currently do. So I have a blog I update rarely and struggle to find things to talk about and Twitter & Facebook accounts clogged with too many links and not enough conversation... Eureka!
I will henceforth be trying to use my blog more frequently, and at the same time reduce the clutter on my other feeds, by gathering these links to internet trinkets and baubles together and putting them on my blog.
Initially this will probably be collections of YouTube videos. Instead of posting several links in a row as I finishing watching each one I'll try to restrain myself and just pop them in a blog post. In fact I think I'll do so right now...
Let me know what you think about my idea and if you have any other suggestions on how to make my life as a blogger easier
Oh a shiny thing... where was I?
"I like to share things I find on the internet." That's kind of my catchphrase and is evident in the number of links I post on Twitter and Facebook. Believe it or not, I restrain myself from posting everything I would like to share for fear of overwhelming people even more than I currently do. So I have a blog I update rarely and struggle to find things to talk about and Twitter & Facebook accounts clogged with too many links and not enough conversation... Eureka!
I will henceforth be trying to use my blog more frequently, and at the same time reduce the clutter on my other feeds, by gathering these links to internet trinkets and baubles together and putting them on my blog.
Initially this will probably be collections of YouTube videos. Instead of posting several links in a row as I finishing watching each one I'll try to restrain myself and just pop them in a blog post. In fact I think I'll do so right now...
Let me know what you think about my idea and if you have any other suggestions on how to make my life as a blogger easier
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Facebook copying Twitter again?
Ten minutes of searching Twitter, Facebook, Google & Mashable have turned up no other posts regarding what appears to be Facebook's latest homage to one of Twitter's lesser known features... the "via".
Since Twitter brought in their controversial new retweet feature, it seems the use of "via" to indicate the user who provided the original link has fallen into disuse. Those who feared it was therefore lost forever will be thankful to hear that Facebook have seen fit to resurrect it.
When you see a post on another user's Facebook feed, you are presented with a 'Share' button through which you can post the item in question to your own feed. So far so social media, right? Well previously these shared posts to your feed were unattributed. This meant you could pass the link off as your own (to those people who don't follow the user you stole it from anyway) but now Facebook are making an effort to show your 'Friends' who it was that originally created the post by adding a "via" followed by the user's name. This is in no way similar to Twitter's new retweet feature that makes an effort to show your 'Followers' who it was that originally created the post.
Apart from making people look a little less cool (now that you can see that it is one of their more interesting friends who was actually providing all those awesome YouTube links to cute cats) the point to note here is Facebook's continuing drive to encourage it's users to widen their online social circle. Why show where posts are originating from (with a handy clickable link) if you don't want to encourage more socialising on your social network?
I have no problem with this new feature (being the guy who finds all those cute kitty videos) but many others may feel that Facebook's continual erosion of user privacy and it's attempts to force them to make new 'Friends' may be less appealing.
Update
Since I made my post last night, Mashable have written their own piece about Facebook's newest feature.
Since Twitter brought in their controversial new retweet feature, it seems the use of "via" to indicate the user who provided the original link has fallen into disuse. Those who feared it was therefore lost forever will be thankful to hear that Facebook have seen fit to resurrect it.
When you see a post on another user's Facebook feed, you are presented with a 'Share' button through which you can post the item in question to your own feed. So far so social media, right? Well previously these shared posts to your feed were unattributed. This meant you could pass the link off as your own (to those people who don't follow the user you stole it from anyway) but now Facebook are making an effort to show your 'Friends' who it was that originally created the post by adding a "via" followed by the user's name. This is in no way similar to Twitter's new retweet feature that makes an effort to show your 'Followers' who it was that originally created the post.
Apart from making people look a little less cool (now that you can see that it is one of their more interesting friends who was actually providing all those awesome YouTube links to cute cats) the point to note here is Facebook's continuing drive to encourage it's users to widen their online social circle. Why show where posts are originating from (with a handy clickable link) if you don't want to encourage more socialising on your social network?
I have no problem with this new feature (being the guy who finds all those cute kitty videos) but many others may feel that Facebook's continual erosion of user privacy and it's attempts to force them to make new 'Friends' may be less appealing.
Update
Since I made my post last night, Mashable have written their own piece about Facebook's newest feature.
Friday, 4 September 2009
Twitter Time?
I've been finding it difficult to make time for Twitter recently. I've not fallen out of love with it, I just can't seem to devote as much time to it as I used to.
Having thought on it I now realise that Twitter filled a niche in my daily routine which has suddenly become far narrower. Previously the bulk of my Twitterings took place during my daily commute to and from work. Lunchtime, tea breaks and any spare moments in my working day involved a quick check of Facebook and a longer spell on Twitter.
My current worklessness doesn't provide such a neat slot for Twitter to occupy. Now it must compete with all the other distractions of the modern world and it suffers for it.
Monday, 23 February 2009
Twittering Masses
The recent surge in popularity experienced by Twitter finally caught me up. Facebook hooked me in 6 months ago and my early attempts at blogging grew weary without an audience, but there is something about the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter that has seized me in a way the others haven't.
A few weeks after becoming a Twitterer, I've found myself integrating it into my daily life in ways I couldn't have imagined. Once you realise that the basic interface offered via the Twitter site is for only the most inexperienced of users, a whole new world is presented to you.
I now run third party applications from my PC and mobile which give me a greater control of both my own Twitterings and the Tweets of the people I follow.
Twitter is here to stay and I intend to take full advantage of it. This is just a quick and easy post, partially to test some Twitter functionality, my next post(s) will delve a little deeper into my twitter experience.
A few weeks after becoming a Twitterer, I've found myself integrating it into my daily life in ways I couldn't have imagined. Once you realise that the basic interface offered via the Twitter site is for only the most inexperienced of users, a whole new world is presented to you.
I now run third party applications from my PC and mobile which give me a greater control of both my own Twitterings and the Tweets of the people I follow.
Twitter is here to stay and I intend to take full advantage of it. This is just a quick and easy post, partially to test some Twitter functionality, my next post(s) will delve a little deeper into my twitter experience.
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