It’s Monday
For lack of a better title. I’m still around, but I’ve been busy blogging over at christine-murphy dot net, which is where I put most of my cooking related stuph these days. There is a series going called “Toikey Day!” which is all about the stuph I’m making for the big day, my prep timeline, and all.
All of the posts in the series are listed at the top of each post in the series, for easy finding. Â Â If you’re stuck for ideas, or just nosy and want to see what we’ll be eating, go and check it out!
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We had a wonderful time at the Granite State Baseball Dinner this past Saturday, I need to get the pics I took off the camera and posted. Soon
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I’ve been hearing a lot about this new service that lets people make money via Twitter. It’s called Be A Magpie. If you opt to sign up, it inserts ads into your Twitter stream and you get paid. And of course, there’s plenty of debate about this already. This article from TechCrunch was tweeted today by @stopthespam.
Several people who I follow have signed up for this, and I’ve seen the ads already. Frankly, it doesn’t bother me, I won’t un-follow anyone who uses this. But I opted not to sign up myself. Not because I’m afraid it would annoy people, but because it would have meant that I’d have to un-protect my updates. I only recently decided to start protecting them, because I was sick of getting all of this email from Twitter, saying “sirspamalot is now following your updates…” Then I’d have to go and block “sirspamalot” and all of his spammy friends, most of them are just trying to promote pR0n videos and such. The day I woke up, checked my email, and saw a t least ten such messages, it was time to do something about it.
I have found that by protecting my updates, the spammers usually don’t even bother to ask to follow me. Most of the people who ask now either already know who I am, or they might have just visited one of my blogs and liked it. As long as those in the latter group seem okay, I’ll let them follow and follow back.
Another reason not to un-protect, also Twittered by @stopthespam, is this service called Twollow. That one, I do not like at all, as it lets people auto-follow others based on keywords. I see a HUGE potential for spam there, and I don’t like it. I want to know WHO is following me, yanno? I assume that as long as I keep my updates protected, this won’t work on my end.
The only Twitter-related services I use now are TwitterFox and TwitterFeed.  TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that lets you see who’s updated, and post your own updates, without having to go to the Twitter site. It’s just a small icon that sits in the status bar of Firefox, click it, and see who Tweeted, and respond, add your own Tweets. TwitterFeed lets you let your followers know when you’ve put up a new blog post via your RSS feed. I find both to be very useful, no potential for spam, and that’s why they are there.
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Off now to see what else is going on out there on the ‘net! 
