I really have been in two minds about Twitter. On one hand here is a new service that reminds me of facebook status updates but announced to anyone who cares to listen, and on the other hand a new craze that everyone I know is getting onto and putting up posts about their every mundane movement. In recent months the number of users has climbed dramatically and C-lebritites like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher got on board [...]

The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message. See more here – http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/

What’s a Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs? I use one and you see it with my posts. Yes, that smiling face to the left. When you post a link or comment on a blogsite with Gravatars [...]

Seems where ever you go these days people like to sit at cafes with free Internet access and surf the web. In this case here I am at a cafe blogging about the two others in the cafe also blogging.