tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post126997686870634705..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: My Tweets of TodayIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52752724436112545792009-02-17T16:54:00.000+00:002009-02-17T16:54:00.000+00:00Bloody good point, Inspector Morse.Bloody good point, Inspector Morse.Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-31718769263491668102009-02-17T16:51:00.000+00:002009-02-17T16:51:00.000+00:00Why do you do this? I mean, put "My Tweets of Toda...Why do you do this? I mean, put "My Tweets of Today" on your main blog? If we wanted to know what you're Tweeting about, we'd go there to have a look, wouldn't we?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, having decided not to have a rant this morning, I am now compelled to reproduce this gem from The Register:<BR/><BR/>Twitter is a web-based communications service mostly, but not exclusively, used by people who spend a lot of time on the internet to discuss the internet, to discuss discussion of the internet, and to gossip about celebrities. When not on the internet, Twitter users often evangelise Twitter to other people.<BR/><BR/>Despite this typical new media hype pattern, a call of "What's the Twitter angle?" has seemingly become the refrain of incurious news editors worldwide. [What's a Twitter? - Bela Lugosi, Reg News Ed] Any mundane story of marginal interest is thus covered with Twitter sprinkles, transforming it into a tasty zeitgeist-fable for the ages. The above is a prime example of how wily campaigners can turn this appetite to their advantage, creating "news" where there is none.<BR/><BR/>The rise of Twitter has also spawned its own tediously familiar class of meta-news ("Humans use communications service to discuss major event shocka", etc, etc, ad nauseum).<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile the service itself offers varying degrees of utility and entertainment to its fans, remains incomprehensible to others and irrelevant to the majority. Just like everything else on the web.Inspector Morsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527881462516700689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69492828598929804742009-02-17T14:50:00.000+00:002009-02-17T14:50:00.000+00:00You don't want to do "Who do you think you are"The...You don't want to do "Who do you think you are"<BR/><BR/>The idea of you bursting into tears when you discover that you are adopted and you are the grandson of Herbert Morrison is too much to take.Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-55659721986982379962009-02-17T13:50:00.000+00:002009-02-17T13:50:00.000+00:00As I think I pointed out on an earlier post - it s...As I think I pointed out on an earlier post - it seems the BBC are providing planet destroying 4x4s for their stars to swan around in for this 'meet the ancestors' programme. <BR/><BR/>They even flew Stein to Hong Kong.<BR/><BR/>The BBC want to send everybody back to the stone age - except them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com