Tag Archives: social networks

So where am I anway?

By Kirk M | Published October 30, 2009

A friend of mine, in a recent post, was lamenting the fact that nobody seems to be writing up any posts these days. Like maybe we’ve all gone into hibernation or something, disappearing into the woodwork from whence we came. In short, where the hell is everybody?
Has everyone said everything there is to say?  Is [...]

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DoS attack yesterday aimed at one single blogger-Chaos Reigns

By Kirk M | Published August 7, 2009

All this social chaos that occurred yesterday because of a massive cyber-attack against one solitary blogger.
A "massively co-ordinated" attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’

Now how do you like that one? An attack against [...]

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The day the Social stood still

By Kirk M | Published August 6, 2009

I’m not going to say that this day will ever live in infamy (it won’t) but much to the social set’s dismay, all of Twitter and rather large parts of Facebook went down this morning reportedly from DoS attacks. Now I have a Facebook account that I dabble in just about everyday for [...]

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I wish WordPress could do this

By Kirk M | Published July 19, 2009

I have to admit that when it comes to browser bookmarklets, the WordPress “Press This” has evolved into a very usable, slimmed down, pinch hit publishing version of the TinyMCE editor that’s complete with all the basic features of the full WordPress editor at hand. Very usable indeed:

But man, I wish it had this kind [...]

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The family’s on Facebook and they found me!

By Kirk M | Published March 7, 2009

The unthinkable has happened. Something that I never thought would ever occur and now my peaceful and pleasant virtual world has been turned upside down.
I’ve had a Facebook account for quite awhile and up to now it’s been a quiet, pleasant thing with only 2 or 3 apps to my name, a few good friends [...]

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About those Google Friend Connect Gadgets.

By Kirk M | Published January 5, 2009

Some of you may have noticed by now those two blue rimmed gadgets in my sidebar labeled Google Friend Connect and The Thinkin’ Wall. This is a new experiment in learning to be more social this year than I have been in the past however, to avoid any confusion I thought a bit of an [...]

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Express Yourself in 140 Characters or Less.

By Kirk M | Published December 10, 2008

Blogging is dead! That’s right…it’s dead, gone, worthless to even consider starting your own blog and a complete waste of time if you already have one.
Yes folks, blogging is completely passé, it’s just sooo 2004 or that’s what Paul Boutin of Wired News would have you believe when you read his article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook [...]

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