Category: Twitter

The blogging bard

It’s a busy time for Rabbie Burns. As the National Year of Homecoming is centred around the 250th anniversary of his birth, he’s got a lot of people looking closely at him and his work. So, he’s been reanimated, and popped up on Twitter, tweeting poems, line by line. After the initial news reports, NTS actually posted the essential information needed for following him on Twitter: his username – ayrshirebard. They might however want to note that Twitter updates to your phone haven’t been possible in the UK for many months.

And now, the revived poet has also taken to blogging!

Robert Burns’ Letters will be posting the letters of the bard, on the anniversary of the day they were actually written. He’s currently in full love-letter flow, writing to his ‘Clarinda’. The content of 91 letters will be being posted, concluding in 2010, when it is hoped the National Trust for Scotland will be able to open the doors of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. Funds are still needed for this (about £4 million), so if you can donate, please do!

Although one plea – pleeease take off the SnapShots thing on links to sites outside the blog, it’s the most annoying popup in the whole entire world…ever!

Now….time to try and find a good ceilidh in town for Burns Night….

Because I’m nosey!

I finally weakened and decide to see what was going on with Twitter.
I joined in January 2007, but never used it, as I didn’t know anyone else who did, or ever would.
But now, I do know people who use it…perhaps it’s finally reached critical mass for me? There’s no guarantee I’ll actually make much use of it, but it seems more interesting when there’s people you’re interested in posting on it. And it’s letting me rant about my crappy day while my boss isn’t there to hear it…

I’m a Luddite, but I’m also always willing to change my mind if I can be persuaded of the usefullness of things!

I was going to say it’s like the opposite to my Facebook account, in that it’s workmates only, whereas Facebook is friends only, then realised I’ve got a bit of crossover of both on Facebook.

Note to self – the next social network you join needs to have a way of separating out groups and allowing them only a certain amount of access to you. “Work” group sees only the updates / info you tag as “professional”, friends get to see everything…