Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’m back in Vancouver at least temporarily and because my new roommate has basically no furniture mine finally comes out of storage. If you own as many books, CDs, DVDs and VHSs as me you need to assemble a lot of Ikea furniture in your life. I don’t have room for everything so much will [...]

This morning I got a rather odd email purporting to be from LinkedIn‘s Marketing department. It made it through all my filters and the headers look reasonable, but based on the poor formatting of the email and the fact I’ve been on LinkedIn a long time, I don’t think it is completely on the level. [...]

Twitter is removing support for RSS feeds in a few days. If you actually used the RSS feed feature of the original Twitter API this is disappointing. Twitter wants to know who is making every single request to their API whereas RSS is fairly anonymous. I was also using Topsy to search Twitter and then [...]

I wasn’t the first to say it, but it is something I’ve noticed for a long time in my own social media usage, Twitter is #winning. Twitter has gotten a lot of credit for breaking news stories, for helping activists and rebels organize, and now it has become the favourite of marketers and sports fans. [...]

I actually joined Twitter fairly early on, but not early enough to secure @Muskie for myself or @BOB for my then employer, short Twitter handles are advantageous just like short domain names. I never seem to capitalize my on my early adopter status… I actually used a work BlackBerry to tweet back when I had a full [...]