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It all started on Sunday morning, when I began one of my usual rants on Twitter about the terribleness of deathly Tim Lovejoy vehicle Something for the Weekend, which culminated in this tweet:

Unpredictably, this comment led to direct contact from Nicky Campbell and, since I’m not one to pass up the chance of wringing a [...]

There’s been a not wholly positive reaction to Manchester Confidential’s “redesign” today. It looks quite a lot like the old site although it’s somehow more grotesque. It’s cluttered, it’s dominated by an almost misanthropic shade of yellow and looks like it was conceived in about 1999. By a drunk. ManCon has unleashed the dogs of war [...]

Manchester Confidential has been emailing some of its subscribers today asking for £11.20 a month, £30 a quarter or £100 a year to continue to access the site and receive a slew of new “benefits”.
The site, which has 260,000 (free) subscribers, announced plans for the paid subscription model last month. Its first move involves inviting [...]

Look kids! It’s DJ Davey C drinking a pint of bitter and looking like a dude! He’s going to be in town at the start of October and his peeps are hosting a wicked all night rave at the Pure night club!
According to the e-flyer (helpfully distributed this week by Manchester Confidential to all its [...]

The internet webosphere has been awash since Tuesday with the astonishing revelation that a 15-year-old boy and his friends don’t use Twitter. Since this apparently proves that teenagers don’t use Twitter, perhaps it’s time for a breakdown of who does use Twitter. (Yes, it’s another of those cantankerous lists that will offend almost everyone at [...]

Since there are loads of helpful social media evangelists out there providing handy hints about what to do in order to get the most out of social networking, I thought I’d buck the trend with my own unhelpful selection of the thirteeen (deliberately Web 2.0-ish random number) things people do on Twitter and Facebook that [...]

I’ve adopted a new theme for the site, which I think looks a bit more modern and clean than the old one. If experience is anything to go by, you probably won’t like it. It should work OK in Firefox and Safari, as well as the much hated Internet Explorer. If you notice any glitches, [...]

I suppose it’s about time I confessed to the fact that I am contributing to a new blog. It’s called AdTurds and, as the name suggests, is simply about television adverts that me and (regular Words Dept. commenter) Robin think are shit.
Web geeks will notice the hilarious AdWords pun, on top of the fact that [...]

Release your inner geek by tittering like a child, as I did, at this Web 2.0-centric Downfall mash-up.

Via the Guardian.
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Just before going to sleep last night I attempted to have a US election-based multimedia experience, which involved taking the laptop to bed (my intentions were pure) and surfing various sites to do with the vote. This, I am led to believe, is the done thing among web-savvy news hunters of the 21st century.
Twitter, in [...]