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Looking At Twitter’s Latest Bump DifferentlyToday

Today, I hopped online to news that people were noticed that their number of Twitter followers/followings were completely out of sync. Louis Gray is reporting a significant loss along with a ton of other people, myself included. However, let’s really examine this situation because people are up in arms about losing a patch of followers. Here’s why you should stop complaining about it:

      

    

1. Twitter Is Up And Running

Look at the bright side, at least Twitter is up and running. This was the biggest problem with Twitter for the past several months among others. Now Twitter is doing a much better job with their uptime and scheduling outages

It’s Not Tech Blogging That’s BoringJuly 22

The latest meme conversation floating around is about tech blogging being boring or failing. Suprisingly, Scoble didn’t link to Hodson’s article which seems as if it may or may not have sparked his post. Moving along…

I don’t feel tech blogging is boring nor is it failing me. If I did, I would clear out my RSS feeds. While the echo chamber can pose a serious problem sometimes, it doesn’t account for tech blogging as a whole. Techmeme doesn’t account for tech blogging as a whole. As much as I love working at ReadWriteWeb, we nor any other major blogging network accounts for tech blogging as a whole. We’re individual slices of the pie. If you feel like you’re being bored or it’s failing you then move along to something else.

        

Taking Care Of Business

Business tech talk can be fun. With

Wordpress On The iPhone Needs ImprovementJuly 22

Just wanted to provide you with an update that the WordPress app for the iPhone is now available in the iTunes app store.

I’m typing up this post using the app now. My biggest complaint thus far is that I can’t type up a post in landscape mode. If you have an iPhone you’re aware that it’s much easier to type on the virtual keyboard in landscape mode. You can’t switch to this mode with the wordpress app.

Another qualm that I have with the app is that images are attached at the bottom of the post. So you cannot write around images and formatting just isn’t an option unless you feel like manually inserting code. You also have to manually type in links which you won’t ever see me do. Copy and paste on the iphone would’ve been very handy for this.

All in all, I would only use this for breaking news. You can add images from your library or take a snapshot right from your camera. As a tip, if you’d like to grab a screenshot from the web or from an app simply hold the home button and press the power button at the same time and an image of whatever is on your screen will be automagically saved. You can also hold your finger on an image from a website to save it to your iPhone.

This app still needs work such as a possible plugin to grab a link or a separate browser like Twitterrific to browse to the page you’d like to link to and insert the link. Still, it’s nice to have this as an option for quick on-the-go posting.

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Twitter’s New RedesignJuly 17

I just logged into Twitter and after sending a direct message from the Twitter homepage my screen showed this:

    

At first I thought Firefox was going haywire on me. However, this is not the case. It seems Twitter is testing a new theme design and one that I’m not quite sure how I feel about.
    

What’s New

• Tabs are now to the right of the screen
• You can see the number of direct messages you have (not sure if that was there before)
• Time stamps and “from” stamp are in italics
• Latest tweet has been pushed under the "message box
• Reply and Favorite shortcuts now appear as you hover over a message
• If someone sent a message via text, the txt link takes you to the Official Twitter Commands page
• The previous update also does the same for Twhirl, Twitterrific, and Twittelator. Meaning it takes you to their respective homepages
• The search box was also moved (Thanks Orli!)

Not a huge or even drastic change, but a surprising one nonetheless. What do you think of the rearrangement?
    

Adding Fuel To The Fire Of RacismJuly 17

Last week, there was a ton of talk about racism due to various incidents that occurred. One of them dealt with Loren Feldman and a controversial video that was supposed to be one of his many flailing attempts at satire. Let me state that I do not know Loren Feldman. I only know of this boy. However, the aforementioned video was a disgrace on many levels and one could even label him a racist after watching it. However, I didn’t. I thought to give him the benefit of the doubt because “racist” is a very strong label. Yet, Feldman has a new video up about “Affirmative Action”.
    

Affirmative Action Is A Crutch

Wikipedia defines affirmative action as,

The term affirmative action describes policies aimed at a historically socio-politically non-dominant group (typically, minority men or women of all racial groups) intended to promote access to education or employment.