Ah, Twitter – the crack cocaine of social networking platforms. Fall in too deep and prepare to be overwhelmed with cat pics and animated gifs – and that’s just if you’re following me, sorrynotsorry. Talking of which, allow me to deliver my ode to life on Twitter (through the magic of gifs, obvs): Continue reading “Giftastic: Life on Twitter”
Last Friday, the writer and comedian, Emma Kennedy, published a blog post highlighting a spat she’d had with a (now blocked) follower over whether young writers should do work for free, which evolved into a heated exchange via email.
As far as I can see, and as Emma signs off in her blog post, they both acted a little like arseholes during their conversation; interesting that Jon seems unable to admit this though. It’s fascinating to see how the briefest of comments, which is all tweets are, can lead to a place of unwarranted and extreme hostility. As Jon points out, I don’t think the two of them have wildly differing opinions on this matter, it’s more that Emma approaches it from an idealist’s point of view and Jon from that of a pragmatist.
Continue reading “Guys? Can We Try & Cut Back On The Dicksplashery, Please?”
So, err, yep, not done a proper post in a while, sorry about that! I do have my reasons, beyond being generally a bit slack (there may have been an element of that too).
To distract you from my lack of new posts I come bearing gifts, and by that I mean I am going to pimp out my Twitter friends and pimp them hard. It’s basically an extremely comprehensive #ff to them all. I KNOW IT’S NOT FRIDAY, SO SUE ME! (Please don’t).
Here we go:
There's a point in there somewhere... 