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March for the Alternative
- 28 Mar 2011
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Yesterday my wife and I (along with around half a million other people) attended the March for the Alternative, organised on Twitter via the @march26march account.

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It was a great day and we didn't see any of the violence that unfortunately broke out after the main peaceful march had concluded.

As you can see from my photos, people from many different services and sections of society came together to make their voices heard.

It is just a shame A) violent people turned up to spoil the party and B) the government has said it will ignore this march and what it stood for.

Have you ever gone on a protest march? What for, and did it make any difference?
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Max_cross
- 20 Mar 2011
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Welcome to Blatant Follower Promotion, the @max_cross episode. In this week's interview, we discuss:
- Changing Twitter names
- Geeks and God and other podcasts
- Blogging tools
- The journey to ordination
- Max's use of social media
- This week's Twitter downtime, and what Max would do about it
- Max's request for people to help produce resources for youth online
- and more!
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Twitter user of the Week

The Twitter user of the week this week is: @codebutler:
1. He created Firesheep, discussed in detail on Security Now 272
2. I think this spurred Twitter in to action to fix the problem on their site
3. Though while adding the fix, Twitter went down which we discussed in the interview
4. Follow Twitter's guide to enable the new feature now
Be interviewed on the show

To be interviewed on the show, please follow me on Twitter - my username is: @edaross .

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Design for Dead Simple Distinction
- 14 Mar 2011
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Design for Dead Simple Distinction, originally uploaded by edross.

Imagine it is 6am, and you've wondered downstairs to make you and your wife
a cup of tea each. She likes goat's milk, but you have cow's milk. As it is
so early, the parts of your body that are required for reading are not quite
fully functional yet, but your taste buds are, and you don't want to end up
drinking tea that tastes of a Greek salad. How are you supposed to pour the
right milk in the right cup?
In the case of Tesco, they have come up with quite a simple, but effective
way to differentiate between the two types of milk: the bottle of one has
the handle in the middle, and the other has the handle on the edge.
Even at your most blurry eyed moment, you should be able to feel around for
the edge and the middle of the bottle and tell which is which!
And so there you have it: one small way in which the design of an every-day
object has helped increase its usability. Can you think of any other
examples? If so, please let me know in the comments section below.

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Ricky Moorhouse
- 12 Mar 2011
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Welcome to Blatant Follower Promotion, the @rickymoorhouse episode. In this interview, we discuss:
- Why he uses his real name online
- His blog
- Disqus vs Facebook Comments
- His missionary trip
- The Men's Group he runs the site for
- How he met his wife
- and more
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Question of the week: Is Twitter biting the hand that feeds it?

This week Twitter announced: We don't want you making Twitter apps that just let you read and write to Twitter any more.

What do you think about that? Is it fair for them to let third party developers help make Twitter the giant it is today, only to turn their back on them later down the line? Maybe Twitter is just doing what it has to in order to help the users know what Twitter is? What do you think. Please let me know in the comments section of this post.

Be interviewed on the show

To be interviewed on the show, please follow me on Twitter - my username is: @edaross .

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Matt Pearson
- 5 Mar 2011
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Hello, and welcome to..... an audio update not Blatant Follower Promotion. This week an old friend: Matt Pearson popped round for an evening and so we took a few minutes to discuss Facebook, Kent and his current and former jobs. Enjoy.

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Apart from on Facebook, Matt doesn't appear much online, though you can listen to him give this 2006 sermon: "God wants to use everyone".

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