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Martin Bryant
Based in Manchester, UK. A writer for TheNextWeb.com, I train young people in Radio, TV and Social Media skills & was one of the founders of #smc_mcr
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"When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn’t take long to see the divergence: TV thinks we’re still buzzing about MJ. But online, we’re not."
- Martin Bryant
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@sevendotzero Me too - I just wonder why you can't just use the same account across multiple devices.
Just finished Metal Gear Solid 4. Such a fantastic game. Hideo Kojima is a genius.
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Or a mad man, or possibly both. Grats on the completion.
- Geoff Schultz
Thanks! Yes - the plot is truly insane, as with all MGS games. Still, it's rare to see such dedication as Kojima shows. My "PS3 games I've missed catchup" continues with Valkyria Chronicles....
- Martin Bryant
@sevendotzero I went through hell with that last summer.Amazing that they didn't think that people might want to move across!
Spotify finally sent me my three awful CDs as reward for filling in their survey. http://twitpic.com/99kwu
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They must really hate you.....................
- Kevin Hatton
That's the only explanation I can think of!
- Martin Bryant
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Hashtags are dying – here’s how to save them – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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"Hashtags are dying. In mid-2009 it’s getting difficult to see a point for them. What started as a helpful tool for tracking news from events has descended into a combination of misguided overuse and outright spammy manipulation."
- Martin Bryant
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Guilty of using them to comedic effect and irony.
- Derrick
They just seem like an excuse to link to a search for specific keywords anyway #guiltyofhashtagabuse
- Rahsheen ™
just let people use it how they want.. you can't stear the internet, another pointless "article" :)
- Pascal
The internet is one of the most naturally evolving civilizations even though based on algorithms due to ease of access. Resistance is not futile but the outcome is almost predestined. The growth of the internet has been with non tech people who not only want an easy button but one that pushes itself.
- Stephan Miller
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Hashtags are dying - here's how to save them http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Did Techcrunch really kill Blognation? Time – and the courts – will tell - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Brilliant piece about Techcrunch vs Sam Sethi
- Martin Bryant
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Loved this bit: "[…] For us lucky Brits this [visit by American blogeratti] represents a unique opportunity – an opportunity to complain loudly that we don't need a bunch of soi-disant social media rock stars coming over here and telling us how to run our industry. And then, after that, an opportunity to skulk off to the pub and mutter quietly among ourselves about what London needs to do to become as cool and successful as Silicon Valley. […]"
- ianf ⌘
I agree, wonderful piece. Very interested in what Paul Carr is going to report on it.
- Ton Zijp
Sad that the whole situation has come to this.
- Jamie
Creative ICT News: Is having a Facebook account compatible with being a teacher? - http://creativeict.typepad.com/my_webl...
"A number of local authorities are now advising heads and teachers to consider whether having a Facebook account is compatible with their status as a teacher. Services like Facebook and Twitter seem to be routinely blocked by the filters. There appears to be an ever widening gulf between the innovators and pace setters in the world of educational ICT and the "authorities"."
- Martin Bryant
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With 1 exception, all my friends who are teachers have FB accounts. FB has privacy settings for a reason.
- LANjackal
Far too many teachers I know accept friend requests from their students.
- Martin Bryant
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I'm a teacher. I have a facebook account. I also have a group called "Miss Elle's Students" for my past, present and future students. Rather than friending the kiddos, I send them to that group. That protects my privacy somewhat and theirs somewhat. However, I (and my students) have better things to do during the school day than be on Facebook, so it being blocked by a filter in the...
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- Miss Elle
Miss Elle, Facebook is often blocked inside schools. It's what happens outside school that's the problem. I'm sure you're very professional in your FB group but for many teachers, having casual chats online leaves them open to accusations of 'grooming' children. Sad but true. I personally think we should teach children good online interaction skills but at the same time it's sensible...
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- Martin Bryant
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I'm just thinking out loud here. If schools would allow Facebook and then use it for school stuff, to mix it up, then there wouldn't be as much problems with it and it would become an extended playground.
- Peter Stuifzand
I saw Ewan McIntosh from 4IP talking about this at Futuresonic in May. He made the same point as you Peter, we need to encourage its use - but it needs a change of attitudes and a kind of net-savvy-ness that's not yet widespread in general society.
- Martin Bryant
Sky have increased my broadband speed but reduced my monthly usage cap from 40GB p/m to 10GB. Thanks, Sky, that's just great.
10GB a month? Jees. My cousin works at sky and he told me that there is no such procedure in place for those who go over the limit. As far as i know, Sky can tell you that you are over the limit, but they dont have anything in place to cut you off or charge any extra. :)
- Giraffes Up in The Air
Thanks Giraffes! I'm thinking of either moving elsewhere or going for their unlimited option.
- Martin Bryant
They can significantly reduce your speed Giraffe. They did it to me while I was at my mums last summer. Had to spend a month on a 2Mb connection (we were paying for 8). That said I now live in London and use Be who were bought out by O2 a few year ago. They're fantastic. 24Mb connection which I use heavily (probably download over 100GB a month) and not so much as a warning from them.
- Jamie
Yeah, I've heard good things about Be, Jamie.
- Martin Bryant
@katiemoffat @emilybell is great on the Guardian Media Talk podcast. Always worth a listen!
Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On - http://torrentfreak.com/playing...
What was the first website you ever visited?
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My then local Library/ISP
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Let me see, I remember it was using Lynx on a dial-up, I'm pretty sure it was the CIX BBS http://atulchitnis.net/writing...
- Aaman Lamba
Mine was Beck.com in 1996. I was one of the first to try out my 6th Form college's internet-connected computer (dial-up of course). I was a huge Beck fan so I tried out Beck.com and was disappointed to see that it was just a splash image for his album Mellow Gold. It's come on a bit in 13 years: http://www.beck.com
- Martin Bryant
telnet info.cern.ch 8080 (via www linemode in the spring of 1992)
- ianf ⌘
CNN.com in '95 or '96. I was either 12 or 13 then (Baby Boomer parents who grew up in modest settings = NOT early adopters)
- LANjackal
Probably one between altavista, lycos or excite
- Roberto (postoditacco)
I think I'm the same as Roberto
- Mitch
whitehouse.gov. I had to do all kinds of crazy things on an ancient Mac to get TCP/IP stack, browser, etc. All because I wanted to hear Socks the cat meow...
- Dave Hodson
ha! found the site in the wayback machine :-) http://web.archive.org/web... Good times, I remember sitting there with my sister reading the setup instructions, ftp'ing into the library's ftp server to get Netscape ?? and then loading this site. oh and the library was by far the cheapest minutes were only 25% of regular calls!! yes thats 0.25 dkr for one minute. My webchatty sister racked up some humongus phonebills still lol
- Rasmus Lauridsen
yahoo in '95
- Serkan Unsal
WSU's homepage in 1994 in Lynx!
- Jennifer Dittrich
More than likely it was Yahoo.
- Adi
probably something that mentioned '404: Error' of some sort
- Morgan Haley
National Geographic
- jcunwired
hotmail. Just wanted to get my email id before anyone else. And it was in 1998. Now its been ages since I visited hotmail
- Sidharth Dassani
Wow that's a long time ago, probably either Bath.ac.uk (homepage then) or altavista in 1993
- Richard Cunningham
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http://www.willemwever.nl to play some games :) Was by my uncle at the University of Twente, Enschede, NL, but don't know which year exactly, think somewhere in 1996.
- Reüel
I can't remember that far back. At least, not with any accuracy...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
altavista
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
@Richard Cunningham - for AltaVista try 1995/1996 at the earliest - unveiled 15 Dec 1995; web crawled first on July 4th, 1995. [source: http://www.clubi.ie/webserc...]
- ianf ⌘
It was so long ago I think it was a.net ;)
- Robert Hafer
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@inaf well I know I was on from 1993 so I don't know how I searched for anything. Was using NSCA Mosaic for a short time before started using Netscape.
- Richard Cunningham
You didn't search for anything, Richard, because there was no websearch then. The closest I can think of when searching for new servers was grepping <http://linux.die.net/man...> the "http\:\/\/www" string in the folder of news:comp.infosystems.www.announce at the Unix end [though it may have been called something else then in Usenet, pre-Dejanews, pre-Googlegroups days]. Mosaic 0.1...
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- ianf ⌘
This thread - now a post on The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/2009... Thanks for the memories, everyone. Keep posting your memories of the web way-back-when :)
- Martin Bryant
[Administrivia] I much prefer to have you summarize relevant FF-originating comments on your #TNW site, Martin, to having them automatically reposted there, as previously was the case [http://ff.im/4bZK6]. Well done!
- ianf ⌘
Ian, that still happens automatically (although it won't pull all of this thread in as it's not linked to the post). Still, this has worked well so far so we'll probably do something similar again at some point.
- Martin Bryant
I suppose it was the Mosaic site. But real men used gopher. :-P
- Jason Huebel
I think the first site I ever visited was http://web.louvre.fr in Mosaic. Yes, french sites used "web" instead of the prefix "www" back then.
- Brome
Probably Dr Fun, http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave..., early 1994 using mosaic.
- andrej koelewijn
aol.com, probably.
- tehKenny
Martin, I'm not talking specifically about #TNW's ab/use of reposting, but it opens a whole can of worms. Because, if you do it, and I do not vehemently object to it, then what is there to stop further parties from reposting my other content from still other places to their own, and potentially harmful-to-my-reputation, sites? Were that to end in court, I sure would name you as...
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- ianf ⌘
i really can't remember now, but i was definitely using Mosaic. i think i got it via gopher or ftp from some university.
- Dead Silence
@Jason Huebel - real men used WAIS, gopher was for sissies. [Amend: and before that modified finger-daemons to facilitate command+singleAddressString text delivery/publishing, as in %> finger "scip+fi%danny"@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au ]
- ianf ⌘
Probably yahoo
- Rodfather
It was probably www.ocf.berkeley.edu, using Lynx in 1994. But our university-issued UNIX shell accounts were configured to start up in Gopher by default.
- Victor Ganata
I managed to FTP Mosaic from somewhere. First site I recall was MIT School of Lockpicking, which I guess made an impression since it had images.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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plato....1974
- Bob DeMarco
I don't remember my first 'web site.' I do remember using Gopher to visit Adam Curry's MTV.COM, though.
- John Craft
@Bob: plato wasn't a website. :P
- Dead Silence
Plato's was a Retreat [Ansonia Building, W. 73rd and Broadway, New York, N.Y.] I wasn't aware they had computers wired well into the future (or any other activities bar the, hmm, basic ones).
- ianf ⌘
prodigy, '96
- Jim Carter
WWF (the wrestlers, not the wildlife). The chat rooms were the first I had ever visited and had me hooked. "mum im talking to Americans...for free..!" Other than that I remember Lycos being one of the earliest as it was the default homepage for all of my schools computers.
- Jamie
RT @jeffjarvis: CNN beat the pants off Fox, getting video of the #Palin announcement first. Even Fox is gobsmacked.
Kraftwerk vs Team GB at MIF09 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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My Dad pointed me at this video of freaky animatronic US presidents. They're hanging out deep in the Uncanny Valley: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Watching @timdifford's video of Kraftwerk and Team GB at Manchester Velodrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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BBC - dot.life: Twitter - too corporate by half? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs...
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"Is Twitter suddenly in a dangerous place, risking alienating users by becoming far too corporate, while failing to make any cash from those feeding off it? Three incidents in 24 hours have provoked that question."
- Martin Bryant
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Valid points, but most of this can be avoided by simple common sense: 1) Don't follow anyone unless you're absolutely interested in them. I know this violates the unwritten follow reciprocation rule on Twitter, but I'd rather my Twitter home page have stuff I actually care about than be full of noise 2) Trending is a "spammy" concept. Use real-time search if you really wanna see what people are saying about something that *you* are particularly interested in. Most trends are inconsequential crap.
- LANjackal
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