BBC & Twitter
I’ve noticed that the BBC’s reporting seems to have gone downhill over the past year or so, the information is still there but it’s presented in a much more sensationalist fashion. It’s not as bad as most places but you have to concentrate more to read the articles to get the real message out rather than the headline that the journalist has typed. But even more recently they have started to use twitter to provide quotes as the bottom of the page.
Using twitter to get quotes like that is a) Lazy and b) dull. I don’t want to know that someone’s agent thought it best to post something on their twitter feed, I want to know something that someone has either actually said or actually done. Phone some people up, find out who’s doing what about it, don’t just run a search on twitter and copy and paste, I can do that.
Hopefully the general standard improves soon otherwise I’m actually going to have to read news elsewhere…
Good Hunting
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19
- @bpeel Hope not I just spent ages moving my twitter thing to oAuth! in reply to bpeel #
- Nagios is very whingy isn’t it… #
- @tk_answers back online - finally found the time to fix the twitter oAuth authentication
# - @tk_answers What is the time? #
- @csstacey It wasn’t me in reply to csstacey #
- @timmartin2 It’s the woodpidgeon near us that does something similar - though probably not as tasty. in reply to timmartin2 #
- Better time…, I may be able to reach my target #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05
- Not buying Reading tickets is hard… #
- @djr36 Perhaps I’ll try it later in reply to djr36 #
- Perhaps I should correct them to ‘Dr Stacey’… #
- Thought I’d left being called ‘Stacey’ at secondary school… #
- Really want to be at home with my girls now
# - Reading was great, back to work, want to be at home with my girls #
- Girly’s in the local paper #
- Lovely late summer morning… cold and foggy! #
- @AndiSmith Happy Birthday BTW! in reply to AndiSmith #
- Plugging back in… #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
- Sleep for Reading… #
- Almost time to start the Reading packing #
- @timmartin2 Ah yes - I forgot that point in reply to timmartin2 #
- The Lions are biding their time, watching from a distance… #
- @timmartin2 That’s faster internet access than you’d get here! BT would take at least 4 weeks to sort it out
in reply to timmartin2 # - Wet, (and cold I think though the cleaner disagrees), let’s hope it’s not like this in Berkshire! #
- Rain must have affected my time this morning - otherwise I’m getting worse #
- It’s actually cold this morning… #
- @dhawes667 Hope she’s ok, Tommy normally does things like that just before we go on Holiday! in reply to dhawes667 #
- Still raining, but the Rabbit for dinner was nice #
- Still raining! Tell it’s dry in Reading… #
- @rachelnelligan Do you have to be female for that to apply? in reply to rachelnelligan #
- @timmartin2 We’ll be expecting some form of electronic updates, and pictures of the Impala steak in reply to timmartin2 #
- No emails for distraction at this time in the morning… #
- Coffee damnit! #
- @timmartin2 Good luck! in reply to timmartin2 #
- @bpeel That sounds somewhat recursive in reply to bpeel #
- @dhawes667 Why not down south in reply to dhawes667 #
- Wish I was at the Zoo with Libs #
- How is it a) the 24th of August already and b) only 11.55? #
- @csstacey That was the second half of the run and it didn’t help! in reply to csstacey #
- Oh dear, my 1.7 miles times aren’t looking good… #
- @james_dunmore I’ll let you have that in reply to james_dunmore #
- @csstacey Ah, ok, point taken in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey Whats wrong with it! in reply to csstacey #
- Wake up mail server… #
- @AndiSmith Sounds fun! in reply to AndiSmith #
- Programmatic Dependency Injection with an Abstract Factory - sounds about right, why didn’t I know to type that into google…? #
- @csstacey @Undeleterious It was the “See Dave, See Dave… …JimBob…?” bit that made me laugh in reply to csstacey #
- @james_dunmore Reading will be better in reply to james_dunmore #
- @dhawes667 Really, that many! We’ll have to speed things up! in reply to dhawes667 #
- Java & Factory classes really don’t make sense at this time in the morning! #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
- I have found a secret skill! #
- What a day! #
- Home time! #
- Don’t you just love the clarity and expressiveness of EBNF…? #
- @csstacey Get it to irritate Tommy, he’s normally quick enough in reply to csstacey #
- @james_dunmore We have pretty much all of it in the next three months… damnit! in reply to james_dunmore #
- @james_dunmore And MOT and Insurance… in reply to james_dunmore #
- Love my Charlie and Libby! #
- @james_dunmore Now you can do anything! in reply to james_dunmore #
- Lacking motivation now… #
- @AndiSmith Libby likes sausages… in reply to AndiSmith #
- @giftedmike That’s a lay-in in reply to giftedmike #
- I’m sure that this was working yesterday… #
- The calm before the storm? #
- Time has come to get out the python book… damn it’s at work! #
- I wonder why it’s doing that? #
- @rwspencer Yes, if I ever get around to changing everything over… in reply to rwspencer #
- Fedora is being annoying… #
- Foos, yes it is that kind of day. #
- @tk_answers What killed Steve Irwin? #
- @dhawes667 If you guys were in cambridge - I’d probably already be working for you in reply to dhawes667 #
- @james_dunmore I know what you mean in reply to james_dunmore #
- @james_dunmore Cool, what’s with all these people getting married? So have you got a date yet? in reply to james_dunmore #
- Grrrr… still cold #
- So noone up for Reading then…? #
- @nightracer You’d have to convince Charlie! in reply to nightracer #
- @csstacey Always the chicken! in reply to csstacey #
- @nightracer If only I lived closer in reply to nightracer #
- @james_dunmore I think that we may need to organise a “haven’t seen you for ages” event… in reply to james_dunmore #
- @AndiSmith November? in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith Indeed we should, we’re free at somepoint in Sept. I’m sure in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith Libby always misses green… in reply to AndiSmith #
- @csstacey She had me looking for a plane for about five minutes in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey What did she say she could see on the way home yesterday? in reply to csstacey #
- @tk_answers weather in cambridge? #
- @rwspencer How is that tune still so catchy! in reply to rwspencer #
- Cold again, remind me, what month are we in? #
- Well back to work after a weekend away for @drbsg wedding, shame we can’t go again everyone had a great time! #
- @nightracer That was quite vital then, not sure @dhawes667 gave that enough emphasis! in reply to nightracer #