At the end of  November, I decided to scale back a lot of my Twitter usage (no, I won't call it "X").  I've been using Fedica to cross-post across mastodon, bluesky, and twitter since this summer (and when threads becomes available, I'll post on threads too). Meanwhile I have 5 tabs open in the browser, and four apps on my old phone (now used like an "iPod touch" style device) that I use

 While this isn't quite a "year in review," it's interesting to grab a snapshot of various Twitter interactions this time of year and do a year-to-year comparison (usernames for this year at the end of the post). I am not sure what time period the Twitter Circle application is sampling to generate this, but I do wonder how much the migration to mastodon-based services has impacted this year's

 I was logging into the web-client for Tumblr recently when I saw this funny troll for Twitter's (short-lived?) blue tick program 😂

 'Tis the time of year when various social media platforms do a  year-in-review, or have different plug-ins that give you some stats anyway.  I'll start with Twitter's festive Christmas tree version of who I've (apparently) interacted with over the month of December.  I don't recognize some of these profile pics🤔

Fail Whale* Καλά ε; Πώς περνάει ο καιρός; Είναι λίγο δύσκολο να φανταστεί κανείς πως έχουν περάσει δέκα χρόνια από τότε που άρχισε το twitter. Εντάξει, το twitter δεν είναι το μόνο microblogging platform που άρχισε το 2006. Για παράδειγμα είχαμε

Tiς προάλλες σκεφτόμουν το πρώτο μου μπλόγκ στο blogger, το «Είμαι φοβερός και το ξέρεις». Έτσι λοιπόν είπα να κάνω ένα διάλειμμα από το 1994 και το #metanastis του τότε για να γράψω λίγο για το πρώτο μου Ελληνικό μπλόγκ - τουλάχιστον

Well, another useful piece of the internet is pulling the curtains as its show is complete.  Yahoo Pipes was an interesting "Web 2.0" service that came out when we were all hot and heavy on RSS-goodness, and had open ways to get content from one site, remix it with another, and create our own new thing. At the time of its announcement I was listening to a Greek Podcast by vrypan, and other

This past weekend I was doing some summer cleanup of various Web 2.0 services and I was planning on checking up Ping.fm to see if I needed to clean up anything in my settings. I really enjoyed being able to cross-post to various networks. Ironically, the networks that I had as backups to twitter (such as Jaiku, youare and posterous) have all either been bought out and closed, or have just ceased operations

The other day I saw a friend of mine (and I hope it's OK to pick on you for a bit :-) ) who had a twitter (and Facebook) post like this one (content is made up): I am really #psyched about this #awesome #content on this #fabulous #topic that I am #super #interested in. This is #seriously #awesome.My friend, if you are reading this I am not picking on you, I am only using your twitter post as a jump

I was listening to Leo Laporte on Twit the other day and he and Robert Scoble were talking about how great Twitter is (all hacking of the twitter homepage aside) when trying to find some information. You just throw out your query into the twittersphere (is that even a word?) and your followers will answer it. Well, this might work for celebrities, but does it work the the average-joe-twitterer?