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#hashtag this

I’ve been wondering why I dislike twitter hashtag memes so much. But it’s pretty obvious really: it doesn’t matter how unexpected and funny the original concept was, the world has a plentiful supply of people who just don’t know when the joke is well and truly dead and buried.

Timing. What makes a good comedian? No, [...]

Links in Tweets

There is currently some discussion about the dangers of URL shorteners. Joshua Schachter points out that shortened URLs damage the web – the ‘hypertext as engine of application state’ part of it. David Weiss points out the security concerns – phishing and a single compromisable point.

In this conversation most people point out that URL shorteners [...]