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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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WPF Twitter Client. Over.">The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.

Twit­ter; Face­book and friends is the place where I spend most of my day. For work and play.
Sep­ar­at­ing work and play is dif­fi­cult in single-column twit­ter cli­ents. Enter mut­liple columns, fil­ter­ing as base require­ments for my per­fect twit­ter cli­ent.
Stuck in closed-source Tweet­Deck; or mov­ing through a myriad of AIR based applic­a­tions. Sub­ject­ing myself to unknown security […]

2765 Words

For vari­ous reas­ons, I am on another sab­bat­ical from Twit­ter. This is not my first, and I dare say not my last. Dur­a­tion, unknown. Frankly, I am bor­ing myself and slowly stick­ing my foot in my own mouth. To fill the now empty space, I have spent more time think­ing and writ­ing. So, for instance […]

The Group Twitter Account Conundrum

On my Soap­box, I have been some­what neg­at­ive (and some­what vit­ri­olic) on blind group twit­ter accounts. My argu­ment has been that no-one talks to brands; humans tend to and would prefer to con­nect with rather human. There is a per­spect­ive I missed: where organ­isa­tions want people to rep­res­ent them, and the indi­vidu­als see them­selves are […]

Three Witches of the Australian Twittershpere

@stilgherrian, @kcarruthers and @nickhodge. Yes, we are all on Twit­ter, twit­ter­ing to the Twit­ter­ati.
We were wait­ing for Pia Waugh, one of Australia’s lead­ing Linux and Open source experts to show us the Art Deco Theatre.
Excel­lent photo taken in the main street of Yass, New South Wales by @ApostrophePong. More Pho­tos on ‘pongs site.

16 ways to know you are addicted to Twitter

You received a tiny URL to this list via Twit­ter. And links to the other n lists of “How do you know when you are addicted to Twit­ter” via Twit­ter.
You have re-followed @ev just to send him dm’s about fea­tures that were once in twit­ter, and have dis­ap­peared.
Without think­ing twice, you grok #2.
Before a con­fer­ence or meet­ing, you […]

A ghost on twitter

It seems people are miss­ing my tweets.
I say stuff, and very few people can see me.
Other people are miss­ing.
As Allison blogs: “The day that twit­ter died”
Thank­fully, today was a busy day. Pro­ductiv­ity level good.

Selling your Identity Stunts your Intelligence

As men­tioned by Duncan Riley in “Rock­et­boom Founder Puts His Twit­ter Account On Sale”, Andrew Varon Baron is “selling his twit­ter account” as a stunt.
As at post­ing, the bid­ding is at US$510.00
I am not sure how this ID is val­ued, and it seems strange that it has value when decoupled from the per­son selling the name.
Unless you […]

UK Earthquake: Facebook and Twitter broke quake news">UK Earthquake: Facebook and Twitter broke quake news

I am quoted in a UK art­icle Face­book and Twit­ter broke quake news in Metro.co.uk
My state­ment on twit­ter ‘one day, on the BBC: “reports from twit­ter are stat­ing an earth­quake…” one day’

Twitter Paranoia

OK, ali­ens are invad­ing my twit­ter feed
Or, after reach­ing 5000 tweets ran­ging in top­ics from Eurovision’07 to Neil Finn Revival Meet­ings, my post­ings are swal­lowed by the great twit­ter engine. Does Ms Gale have a restrain­ing order out on me? More likely Paul Foster’s mobile phone cost centre owner in the UK.
Maybe it’s the lolcat speak that […]

Creating in SecondLife

Thanks to Uncle Dave Wal­lace (to the left), I now feel prop­erly attired in SecondLife:

Hanging out on the The Pod­cast Net­work island, where the Aus­tralian Twit­ter­arti drop in and out. Donated some money to Cameron so he’s not tak­ing food from his family’s mouth to cre­ate a place to visit.
Duncan Riley from Tech­crunch pos­ted his thoughts […]