Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Taken from the Metro:

Using Facebook or Twitter may make you a bad person because it ruins your moral compass, it has been claimed.

Fast-paced modern media, such as Facebook updates and news feeds on Twitter, do not give us time to reflect and could make us indifferent to human suffering, according to a group of researchers.

Children could be particularly vulnerable because their brains are still developing, it was claimed.

‘If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people’s psychological states and that would have implications for your morality,’ said researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, from the University of Southern California.

Yet another dumb ass quote from another dumb ass lecturer. Why do respectable publications such as the Metro (well, I enjoy reading it anyway) continue to quote people who’s job it is to come up with new opposing opinions to that of the general public?

Dear Metro, please try to interview people who know what they’re talking about. Stop interviewing people who sit on the fence commentating on the theory of everything, without actually delving into the real world of practise.

Facebook and Twitter brings out the best in us in my opinion. People have an instinct to help others by sharing opinions, contacts, advice, gossip and the like. What are your thoughts?

The tools that Twitter endorse are few and far between. So, when it’s revealed that it plans to “officially endorse” ExecTweets, and to encourage more brands to create customised Twitter homepages, it deserves to get my full attention.

I haven’t got time to write about this right now, so why not read what Milo has to say at The Telegraph - where I picked up the story.

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The award serves to celebrate the wealth of female speakers and practitioners of social media living in UK. In doing so its objective is to challenge the current under-representation of females on event panels by offering a high profile platform for women.

Victoria Chowney (AKA @VikkiChowney) get’s my vote without hesitation. I think she’s one of the very few people who can put all this social media-smedia into practice. She’s quietly confident but modest too. That’s why she won the BIMA PR pitch on behalf of Six Degrees and that’s why I recommended her to Quick.TV. What I love about Victoria most is that she loves to help others.

If you agree, then why not take 30 seconds out of your day to vote for her too. Cast your vote now.

If I could cast a second vote I’d go for Judith Clegg, Helen Keegan, Judith Lewis, Katie Lee, Amanda Rose and Katy Howell - in no particular order.

Cast your vote now.

We need more awards and competitions to help celebrate the great women in tech/media.

Leave a comment if you would like to acknowledge other women who don’t appear on the list but who deserve to be promoted for their contribution.

Here’s a fun Web site that displays a person’s reach on Twitter. I scored 1,117,492. I’m not entirely sure what that means but I’m guessing from the wording on the site that it’s two layers down from me; my followers and their followers.

Either leave a comment or @ me on Twitter with your reach

My last post focused on the negative side of a good tool called Qwitter. My motivation was driven by the urge to provide a little insight to how it ‘could’ be used in the wrong way. It wasn’t my intention to slate the product. So, there are good reasons to use Qwitter, but at least digest my post and remember not to make too many assumptions when people unfollow you.

Now onto a more positive post to balance it out. TweetDeck is my desktop client of choice for Twitter. As you can see from the screen shot above, you can separate your main friends’ feed, replies, groups and direct messages (DMs). I haven’t shown my main feed because I didn’t want to show who wasn’t amongst my ‘Toilet Cleaners group.

The ability to group people is what I love most about this application. Some people create groups for family, friends and colleagues etc. I only have the need for one group, which contains about 25 people; people who I consider as either friends or very interesting people.