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Comment on Oh dear, Libya has annoyed the internet by Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:33:03 +0000

Thanks Mike, I’m not sure about sweary words to be honest. What got me about vb.ly was that it was whining about being closed down when it was blatantly obvious that what they were doing was against the wishes of the .ly registrars, who ultimately get to say what’s ok and what’s not on .ly domains…

Look at the Cook Islands as a great example too, they have the .co.ck TLD – but expressly forbid any domain that wishes to make profane humour out of it…

Comment on Oh dear, Libya has annoyed the internet by Mike Kennedy

Mike Kennedy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:49:13 +0000

I understand that adult content is not allowed; but what about swearing and other potentially offensive words?

Comment on Why Use Hootsuite? No Really, Why? by Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:52:04 +0000

Thanks for your comment Phillip!

I can’t think of any technical reasons for requiring iframes, other than to artificially boost your own traffic and be able to serve ads on the iframe surround… but more than happy to be shown one :)

Comment on Why Use Hootsuite? No Really, Why? by Phillip D

Phillip D — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:12:51 +0000

It’ll be to do with how they gather, package and sell data on social traffic and attribution.

I imagine there are technical reasons why they would occasionally have to use iFrames to do so – some content such as cookies can only be triggered when presented in the page environment. Which is, of course, why iFrames are a risk in the first place, but in this case is harmless.

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:47:05 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Chris. I couldn’t agree more, it may seem trivial but it grates!

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:27:45 +0000

Quite right: this belongs up there with ATM machine, and PIN number :-)

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:51:54 +0000

Hi Steve, thanks for stopping by!

I just Googled Susanna Reid, you clearly appreciate the aesthetic things in life. Also, nice use of the ‘concentrate’ euphemism.

Actually, a combination of ‘fudds’ and lack of concentration in the audience has given me an idea for a slide for future presentations.

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:30:01 +0000

Aye. The world’s full of terminolobastardisers!

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Steve Christie

Steve Christie — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:41:21 +0000

This is a particularly annoying occurrence on my timeline, especially for those events that have taken weeks to grind to a start. Seriously, if I wanted to know what is being said, I would’ve paid for a damn ticket. What use do they think ‘@andrewburnett just said ‘Fudds’ on stage’ is to me when I’m sitting trying to concentrate on Susanna Reid at breakfast time.

Your point about the poor sap on the podium pouring out their knowledge getting pretty chuffed off is a great one as well. Looking down to see a fair proportion of the audience furiously tweeting their every utterance about the future of (fill in your own topic here) must be soul destroying. Even worse when they look back after the event at what was being said and find the #tag attached to a ton of tweets about how good the bacon rolls are!

BTW, you should never have to think twice about using ‘Fudds’ as an insult! Its quite an exceptional putdown!

Comment on Rant: “Live Tweeting” by Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:51:42 +0000

Say what you want, but you know livetweeting is going to be along as round as that other classic of blog for blog post.