Twenty years ago, I might have told someone to refuse to listen to gossip, and to check any stories they did hear carefully. “You need to get to the source,” I would say. There’s a reason that Paul puts gossip on so many sin lists: It can tear up a church. But readers of this…
I intensely dislike fake news or, for that matter, slanted news. I do believe that the term “fake news” should be limited to things that are totally made up, not things in which the reporting is slanted, or in which poor conclusions are drawn. People were and are justified in mistrusting the media. Personally, I…
Today in my inbox, which often overflows with notifications about open source software, I received two separate notifications which I plan to combine in one blog post. The first was a list of command line clients for Twitter for use under Linux. My main office machine runs Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and I date from…
WebProNews quotes a long answer to the question many advertisers are asking about organic reach via their pages on Facebook. Facebook spokespeople have been trying to answer this question for a long time, and advertisers just aren’t satisfied. I have a number of problems with Facebook, which I will outline below, but the way they’re…
I’ve been missing TweetDeck on my main office system, which uses Ubuntu Linux, ever since Twitter bought it and eliminated Adobe Air. I was suspicious of the stability of Air, but I liked TweetDeck, and it worked. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t think of the solution myself, but rather found it here–TweetDeck for…
For several days I had a problem logging into my Twitter account. I wondered at first whether I had been banned for some reason, but I couldn’t think of any reason for that. Then I checked that I could see my profile when not logged in, so all was well there. Unfortunately, as soon as…
Well, at least HootSuite5 has arrived! I’m pretty happy with the new look and features, though I’ll have to use it for awhile to find out what my complaints are. I always have complaints! In general, however, the new user interface feels more logical to me. There is less guessing as to where a particular…
They will, according to the New York Times and many other sources. It’s a form of advertising that they’re testing, designed to build revenue. At some point Twitter was going to have to do something like this. It was just a matter of time. I’ll be interested to see how well it works for advertisers…
Those who look for relevant people to follow should love the new tool Twiangulate. It allows you to enter two or three people of interest to you, and get a list of people that they all follow. It’s a fairly simply concept but it can produce some interesting results. For example, just as a test…
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