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Which century are we in again?
by loiswakeman @ 25/05/2007 - 09:39:22

Heard on the Today Programme this morning: a weedy article on social networking sites – done in the usual heavy-handed and jokey way that older people use to cover topics that only the young are comfortable with. John Humphreys mentioned Faceback in his intro to the piece – which got me thinking about silly names for such sites. Squitter and Bubo come to mind. One a site for mindless textual diarrhoea, and the other for teenagers to squeeze their virtual spots in front of the cybermirror.

There was me thinking that we had developed brains and speech to filter out the stream of consciousness into something approaching coherence – and there goes Twitter encouraging us to spew it all out regardless. How annoying is that?

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RidgewayBloggerRidgewayBlogger [Member]
25/05/07 @ 19:13

You were awake earlier than me, then, I was still coming to when I heard this pointless piece. I had thought that perhaps not being fully compos mentis might have caused me to miss some vital point, so it's comforting to know that, actually, it was handled rather poorly. Shame, Humphreys used to be such an incisive journo. Or maybe that's just nostalgia creeping in and I'm missing Nick Clarke.

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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25/05/07 @ 21:07

Aaah yes - poor Nick - I too miss him. One of those people I'd never met whose death felt like losing a distant friend - like Geoff Hamilton and John Peel.

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RidgewayBloggerRidgewayBlogger [Member]
26/05/07 @ 11:12

Yes, indeed - isn't it odd the way just certain people touch our lives?

Did you hear there was a follow up this morning, just before the close of the programme? Sadly Humphreys maintained his "it's all beneath me" attitude, but some of the rest of the piece was mildly amusing.

RB

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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01/06/07 @ 15:04

Belated reply: I finally tried the "listen again" service and trawled through to the end. Oh for goodness' sake: lots of old geezers trying to sound trendy or guffawing and muttering in the background. Grrrr!

Have fun with your walk this weekend! The weather looks lovely here at present - fingers crossed.

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RidgewayBloggerRidgewayBlogger [Member]
01/06/07 @ 15:28

Reading that did make me smile! There was another OFGS (oh for goodness' sake) moment this morning, but I can't recall it right now and I can't help feeling that it's probably better that way.

The weather's pretty fine here too, and the forecast is for more of this sort of weather tomorrow so walking is becoming more probable by the hour. Thanks for your good wishes!

RB

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