tech, life, chinese
Yesterday evening I received the following Tweet as a direct message. Normally I wouldn’t publish direct messages but I have permission from @Joerup to publish this one as I believe it highlights something quite astonishing about just how much a part of daily life social media has become.
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The design of the #MandarinMonday website is centred around having an archive of all tweets tagged with the hashtag #MandarinMonday. Rather than write a stand-alone script to search Twitter and archive these tweets, I decided to package it all up as a self contained WordPress plugin. I am now sharing this plugin (my first ever public plugin for WordPress) with anyone who wishes to use it.
The plugin has two functions:
You can find more details and a download link in the full post. Continue reading
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This week saw the birth of #MandarinMonday on Twitter. There are no rules to #MandarinMonday as the idea behind it was to encourage people learning Chinese to use their Mandarin. Just turn up, tweet in Mandarin and use the #MandarinMonday hashtag.
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There has been much discussion around the validity of Twitter as a news source. Recent events have demonstrated beyond doubt that twitter is ahead of the mainstream news organisations when it comes to alerting the world to major events. However, dispute arises over the accuracy of the reporting. Tom holds the view that inaccurate reporting is irresponsible and often dangerous while Mike counters that as time goes on, the accuracy of the stream as a whole increases and the accurate information bubbles to the top. In their own way, they are both right. Whilst Tom looks at the accuracy of the individual Tweets, Mike tends to look at the trend and the overall accuracy of the stream.
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