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Hacio’r Iaith – what it is, why it is and what happened (monster post!)

A group of us did a free, open event in Aberystwyth on 30th January 2010 called Hacio’r Iaith. It was fun. I learned things. It was based on the BarCamp format. You can use the format to have a conference on any subject and many people do. Some people call it an unconference.
The reasons we [...]

Pam dylet ti agor dy broffil Twitter

Dw i wastad yn siomedig pan mae siaradwyr Cymraeg yn cau proffiliau nhw.
Dw i dal yn casglu cofrestr o proffiliau Cymraeg. Ewch i’r gofrestr a darllena pobol eraill sy’n rhannu pethau. Diolch iddyn nhw. Dyn ni’n adeiladu’r rhwydwaith Cymraeg person wrth berson.
Mae Twitter yn gweithio yn dda pan ti’n agor dy broffil i bobol eraill [...]

Vote for Twitter to be translated into Welsh

At the moment Twitter’s web interface is only available in four languages – English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Also on the way now are Italian and German.
So Twitter Inc have decided to increase support for the world’s languages, which is an excellent move. They’ll be asking users to collaborate on translating the interface, which again [...]

The evolving blog: Twitter as microblogging

Veteran blogger Meg Pickard wrote an insightful post last month about how the adoption of Twitter has mirrored that of blogging before it.
Twitter the company never describe their service as “microblogging”. That’s a smart move from the viewpoint of marketing the service to people who might have preconceived ideas about blogging. But mainly, it probably [...]

Reaching for a better email tomorrow (my white inbox resolution six months in)

Happy new half-year!
Back in January I made a resolution to leave my inbox empty every night. I have partially succeeded. It’s forcing me to make those little decisions. It’s a lot more manageable. Hooray!
At times I’ve let it slip. But there’s no use feeling any guilt over it. Guilt won’t motivate me, it won’t fix [...]

All my trivial status updates in one big list

There is a lot of trivial information on the web. You know the sort – status updates about the minutiae which make up life.
It’s all fine I guess. I could pick an example, but then I would probably try to find something noteworthy about the event, its ramifications for society, etc. which would make the [...]

Recursive Proverb

Here’s a recursive proverb.

Wordwhale – Fun With Anagrams Via Twitter

Meet the Wordwhale.
If you like solving anagrams, the Wordwhale is now pos(t)ing one daily.
Follow @wordwhale to join the lexical fun.
(You don’t need to be signed up to Twitter to try solving it. You can still view the webpage twitter.com/wordwhale to monitor what’s going on and try solving it. But if you’d like to enter and [...]

What’s the point of Twitter?

Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends
This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance.
Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing about it.
After [...]