Aug 28, 2011

Following the almighty east coast earthquake in the US (sorry, I swear that’s all the piss-taking I’ll do in this post), Twitter have released a great video that shows just how fast Twitter is. Entitled “Twitter, faster than earthquakes”, it’s a video that’s been put together to show that Twitter was faster than the earthquake...

Feb 18, 2011

I recently wrote a pretty negative post about the police entitled ‘Safer Communities Together: A Story of Christchurch Police Failure‘. A month or two after that post was written, the New Zealand Police fell under the media spotlight for the poor record they have for responding to crimes such as burglaries. Like I said in my post, I’m a...

Oct 19, 2010

Google basically runs the world. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on what they’re up to. One way to do this is to laboriously sign-up to every newsletter going for every Google application – Google, Google Earth, YouTube, Gmail, etc. etc. Another way is to follow the Google accounts on Twitter although of course that means...

Feb 2, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: It’s just been reported that the famous Twitter birds have rescued the equally famous Fail Whale from Japanese whalers via an intricate webbing system. Our reporters are currently trying to contact the embarrassed whalers for comment. We’ll update with more news as it becomes...

Dec 2, 2009

Twitter has a function called “hashtags”. Basically, if you’re talking about an event or a particular product, you mention a word associated with it and put a hash in front. Like #WorldAidsDay. This means that anyone can click on that word in your tweet and instantly see what other updates are talking about the same topic. Knowing this, I...

Oct 30, 2009

Note: This blog post was written ‘back in the day’ when my blog was called ‘The Red Armband of New Zealand’ and had quite a different style. Twitter had just released their list function in beta status. I have since changed the name of the blog to simply NZ Raw and now focus on my own Twitter account, @marklincoln. The Red Armband of New...