April 2013
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Hi Best Buy Canada,
I am addressing this note to you directly (and tagging you in a tweet!) because if your social media team is anywhere near decent enough, you’ll see this. If not, it just reinforces my belief that your customer service is not providing, you know, customer service.
I spent many hours researching the product I wanted. I saw the item on sale at Best Buy and quickly bought it....
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bookshop:
12 crucial Tumblr tricks you probably don’t know
1) Know your limits.
The tag limit. Only the first 5 tags you put in a post are searchable.
The search limit. Only the first 200 posts under a tag show up when you search that tag.
The posting limit. You can post or reblog no more than 250 posts a day, and only 75 of them can be photos. The day ends at midnight EST.
The...
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We'll see you at the movies, Roger Ebert. R.I.P. →
dailydot:
Roger Ebert passed away Thursday.
The Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper where he plied his trade for decades, reported Ebert’s death at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.
Ebert, a Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism, lost his physical voice when he lost his lower jaw in 2006. He found a new voice on the Internet. He has noted on many occasions how his site brought him closer...
March 2013
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If you are always on the Internet and are married to someone who is always on the Internet that’s OK but if you are married to someone who hates the Internet you gotta get outta dodge, man.
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Digg Blog: We're Building A Reader →
rethinkdigg:
Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure they are getting the best from their…
I was going to write a bit about Google Reader and RSS and whatnot but TL;DR ILU...
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February 2013
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The very first thing I wrote about Twitter
In March 2009, I was on a week-long training/induction course despite having been at my newspaper sub-editing job for a year. One of the tasks which I was assigned in journalism 101 (I don’t even know what to call it) was to write a column. I chose to write about Twitter.
Thankfully, I think I’m a better writer now.
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“Twitter seems like it could be fun. It’s pretty much a blog site...”
– What I thought of Twitter on May 13, 2008.
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Dude in my French class thinks kids under 18 shouldn’t use the Internet because the “information is bad.”
Would’ve explained exactly why he’s completely wrong if my French were better…
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arminsfrozenpeas:
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I don’t really need to say anything more, do I?
January 2013
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There's nothing wrong with jokes. →
I don’t set out to be funny on Twitter. I’m just being myself.
I tell a few jokes amid doing work stuff, and it’s not up to me to decide whether they’re good or bad. Working from home most of the time and not having anyone around means I need another method of release for my thoughts.
You can talk about journalism as a public service or whatever and needing to be serious...
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“Prohibition had a majority in all provinces except Quebec, where a strong 81.2%...”
– Why am I not surprised?
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timafey:
Amy Poehler gif hunt. I have more if need be. but i’m so lazy. really.
I own none of these gifs, okay. Zero. I made not a single one.
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I was looking for Amy Poehler GIFs for work and found this. Enjoy.
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My organic grocery delivery service has been out of action for over a month and oh God am I seriously going to have to continue grocery shopping at the supermarket for all the gross processed meat with lots of horrible people I’d never want to talk to please make your baskets available for delivery again Mr Company Man I can’t take much more of this.
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December 2012
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“Oh Lord it’s Adam Sandler – who let him in?? Paul Shaffer from the David...”
– How to address Adam Sandler’s blasphemy appropriately.
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I don’t care if you don’t laugh at my jokes right away. They’re not exactly designed for that. Instead, I aim to bury them in your brain, where they ping between your neurons and they click hours later, causing you to burst out laughing just before you fall asleep so you think of me and I pop up in your dreams and am the first thing you think about when you wake up. It’s...
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November 2012
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Guys, please don't watch Justin Timberlake's movie...
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“Barack Obama is certainly one of the first US Presidents to truly embrace the...”
– Sorry, Abe. Guess you didn’t tweet enough while you were in office.
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“One irony of the banning and demonization of pot and gay marriage, of course,...”
– Can’t argue with Henry Blodget here.
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October 2012
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SOOOO, the Daily Dot has a Facebook! →
bookshop:
It’s over here!
if you’ve liked our articles on Sterek
if you like that we not only wrote an article about where to find the good porn but graced it with Starfighter artwork (hell yeah)
if you popcorn.gif at our coverage of One Direction fandom
if you appreciate that we have a…
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App Dot Nyet
I don’t see how App.net will be adopted by the massses. Once everyone has a place where they can talk to their friends, for free, in snippets, why would they pay $36 per year for the privilege and what appears to be a very similar feature set?
The idea behind App.net is solid. I appreciate what the folks behind it are trying to do and Godspeed to them. I just can’t imagine that many...
September 2012
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I look forward to the days when food conglomerates take a leaf out of tech and media companies’ playbooks and insist that we only have a licence to use their products.
Can’t beat those tasty Terms of Service.
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Netflix exec: Canada’s broadband caps “almost a... →
Things aren’t quite as bad as suggested here, yet it’s true that bandwidth caps in Canada are utterly ridiculous.
I’m happy with my highly reliable, cap-free $40/month service with a reseller ISP, but it’s only 5Mbps.
I’d be more tempted to take out service with one of the big players for faster speeds if they were willing to drop their crazy low caps.
Look at it...
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The Problem With The Big Bang Theory...
butmyopinionisright:
I’ve been meaning to post something about The Big Bang Theory for a while now but it’s taken me ‘till now to really understand what it is about the show that makes me uncomfortable. I’m not exactly a believer in the whole “only write about the things you like, don’t trash the things you don’t” trend which seems to be plaguing comments sections in negative articles lately,...
August 2012
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