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Earlier today the poke published the 11 best police tweets of 2013. I love the poke, they publish some brilliant things…but this one was a bit…erm…out of date? How do I know? Well I wrote two of the tweets they highlighted…in 2012! Here is the poke’s run down, with the original tweets (or you [...] My boss wrote me a powerful message in her Christmas card to me this year: “be proud of what you’ve achieved this year”. December was a hard month for me, but that quote set me thinking. In the light of all the “reviews of the year” that are inevitable at this time of year, I [...] 
One of the Twitter accounts I manage professionally recently passed the 30,000 followers mark. This was a big milestone for us, and we wanted to mark it with something special. Here’s how I did it! [...] When I saw this tweet asking for help creating fake placenames: I need your help. I need fake town, city and county names please. Caveat: they must be realistic sounding and not offensive. Thanks! — Christine Townsend (@ceetownsend) August 7, 2013
My inner Stinson couldn’t resist… Pick a word from the Prefix Column, and [...] Earlier this week Twitter announced its much awaited two-step verification process (see Mashable for more). I am worried I might have spotted a fatal flaw in the process that makes hacking a twitter account EASIER if you enable two step verification. Twitter have been obviously inspired by Google’s two step verification process, making use of [...] 
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, I have a bit of a soft spot for symbols and pictures in text based updates. More often than not this is done using Unicode – no doubt you’ve seen people (let’s face it, they are usually beliebers!) who include hearts, squiggles, smiley faces and weird [...] I recently came across an interesting feature of cameraphones, which I think is ripe for taking advantage of. This is a picture of a TV remote taken with the camera on my smartphone. You will notice the purple flare from the infrared (IR) LED on the front of the remote, as I press the power [...] A recurring theme today seems to be “talking to strangers”. It first came up during a discussion I had this morning with some colleagues, discussing the “North South divide” – and a comment along the lines of “if you talk to a stranger in London, people think you are weird. If you do it in [...] |
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