plooptionary

Twitter - offering ‘mobile’ democracy?

ploop — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:12 +0000

I’ve been pootling around on twitter for a while now. I like it. In fact, you can follow me here. Not that I’d recommend it, as I just update with drivel. But, as an immediate way for people to update it’s superb. Here’s why; you don’t have to have a computer. And, in places like Africa (and China) there is not a huge mass of people with computers but there is vast saturation of mobile phones. That’s where twitter is clever - it allows people to broadcast to a large audience via their mobile phone. I’s be fascinated to see twitter updates from people voting in Zimbabwe for example, from inside Tibet etc … Twitter offers a voice because it uses what most people have, a mobile. For me, that’s powerful. Below I’ve doodled it graphically …

Britney, Paris, flies and cakes

ploop — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:51:02 +0000

Hi, I’m a bottled water bigot!

ploop — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:33:42 +0000

I know, I know. I really should be blogging about Labour’s collapse in the UK. It’s really desperate. The only party (likely to be elected) with heart and they blow it. Now, all the closet tories who’ve been too worried of showing their colours are starting to look smug. Jesus, even Jim Davidson and Paul Daniels might not take their own lives and that’s a dreadful pity. But you know what? I’d be letting down the people at humor blogs if I didn’t turn my back wholeheartedly on that and have a look at the market for bottled water.

Don’t shout, you sound weak

ploop — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:05:50 +0000

Glamourous with dirty knickers?

ploop — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:34:59 +0000

Just a theory ok, just a theory. At university I used to know a girl who was convinced she could tell, by the shape of someone’s lips, how often they showered. Of course we never got to find out if her theory was correct as I wasn’t in the business of asking people how much they showered. Whatever lip shape, the shower question just didn’t come up. However, why let science get in the way of graphs? As my pals at humor blogs say, the plooptionary is just like a “math lesson gone wrong”. I think the theory below will stand even the most scientific scrutiny. Please feel free to exchange ‘make-up’ for ‘aftershave’ depending on your sensibilities!

Pimping on Twitter

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Alleged price fixing amongst top consumer brands … there’s a surpriseQ #
I need to learn not to get so upset by bad grammar in sms #
remembering how much fun it is to write about monsters over on http://tinyurl.com/yyzkn5 #
I’m hitting snooze on @scobeilzer. You can hit snooze too at http://twittersnooze.com/ #
I’m hitting snooze on @Scobleizer . You can hit snooze too at http://twittersnooze.com/ #
Scobleizer Am I getting too noisy? Twitter Snooze:
I just tried and you know what, "you are not a real user" according to Twitter snooze #

man, your jewellery tells me you can’t spell

ploop — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:02:00 +0000

Hoorah, it’s sweeping generalisations time. Sure there are exceptions to every rule, but they just spoil the fun. I have an issue with jewellery on men. A wedding ring is fine - but stop there. I can only speak for the UK here which might render the following graph obsolete for those people here and here but there is little doubt in my mind as to the link between jewellery and education. There, I said it, just don’t get me started on people who raise their voice when they think they have a ‘really important point’

Pimping on Twitter

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Enjoying the humour of researching for an article I am writing on migraines … while suffering myself from a migraine at the same time #
Enjoying the humour of researching for an article I am writing on migraines … while suffering myself from a migraine at the same time #

Summer sun and the opposite sex

ploop — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:06:18 +0000

Being born British is often no bad thing. However, it often means you live in Britain and I believe it has the worst weather in the world … yesterday I wore, at different parts of the day a wooly hat, a rain mack, and shorts. But who gives a flying turd about that? Actually probably not even my own mother, so I won’t bother you about it … or the people at humor blogs.

The actual really, eye bleedingly wretched thing about living with so little sun is that when the sun does come out, so do all of the people who should be sent to a desserted island and be made to live on jam. I’ve never understood how fat men think it’s acceptable to sit in public with no t-shirt on? Women tend to look better in summer gear … men are just hair, flab and wind tied together with gaudy nylon …

Pimping on Twitter

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:59:59 +0000

lets get funky by james brown is now the only tune that will sent our 11 month old to sleep … I’m getting heartily fed up of it! #