For the last few years I've spent a little of my Christmas downtime curating my own personal filter bubble in the form of a list of people whose every post I want to see. Previously I derived a Twitter list of people I retweeted most in the preceding 12 months, adjusted for balance of gender and … Continue reading Microblogging migration: my New Year list of people whose every post I want to see
I signed up for Twitter in November 2006. My friends were talking about it, and it seemed like a fun diversion. My first blog post suggesting Twitter might not be as good as it used to be is dated December 2006. Back in those early days, the service I remember sat at the centre of … Continue reading What’s on your mind? How I’m thinking about microblogging right now
If I'm going to live in a filter bubble, it might as well be one that I have intentionally constructed for myself. For a few years now I've been using tools like proporti.onl to keep a check on the gender balance of the people I follow. nonbinarymenwomenno gender, unknownPeople you follow1%50%49% Guessed from name0537464443Declared pronouns14130188 Proporti.onl results … Continue reading Using Twitter lists to balance my attention: a slow motion self-experiment
https://twitter.com/mattedgar/status/75309 Today, for me, marks a decade of 140 character updates, 10 years of paying continuous partial attention to hundreds of wonderful people around the world. So I downloaded my Twitter archive and munged it in an Excel pivot table. Here's what I learned... 2006-2008: what are you doing? Following just a handful of people, I … Continue reading What are you doing? 10 years of continuous partial attention
[Mr. Incredible throws a log at Syndrome, who dodges it and traps Mr. Incredible with his zero-point energy ray] Syndrome: Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it... Late last year BBC4 aired an excellent Charlie Brooker Screenwipe special in which Graham Linehan, Russell T Davies and others shared their secrets … Continue reading Twitter: where monologues collide
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