Standing up for RSS is a bit like getting excited about cat’s eyes in the road: they’re not something to be very passionate about, but you’d miss them if they weren’t there. I often see tweets and blog posts about RSS dying and it’s become one of those perennial debates in the tech world. Twitter and Facebook [...]
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The ‘Royal Wedding package’ – social media as a local service
It’s traditional that where the Royal Family leads, the world, or at least influential sections of it, follows. So the major use of social media at yesterday’s Royal Wedding should be evidence, if it were needed, of the final acceptance of upstarts like Twitter and Facebook into Society. And just as dress designers were busy [...]
Finding public streams about your area on Facebook, Twitter and the wider web through Google
What are people saying about your local area? Facebook: You can use search to find out, bearing in mind this will only find status updates by people who have not set them to private. Type your placename into the box at the top (or use this link to the Search page) and ‘Search results for [...]
Make the most of your Twitter page
If Twitter is part of your local blogging routine, it’s a good idea to customise your Twitter page. You can include a bit more information and maybe some photos of your place to help it feel more local. This is one of many useful video tutorials to show you how to create and upload a [...]
Twitter & OAuth
More and more of us are using Twitter to communicate or to promote our hyperlocal sites. Until recently (yesterday!) you had to authorise the different applications you use to automagically tweet out about your latest posts with your username & password. This as I’m sure you are all aware posed some security risks, we have [...]