otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Joanne just received a Direct Message on Twitter from someone she follows, but doesn’t actually know. It read “Hey is this you on here?” followed by a link and looked like this:

The link took her to a site that looked like Twitter and asked for her Twitter password:

If you receive a similar DM, do [...]

I might be getting slightly obsessed with Design for Life.
Despite my questions about the €90 bicycle, I very much enjoyed the first episode and am looking forward to the rest of the show.
Having one of the contestants respond to my post and another one follow me on Twitter made me curious about the online presence [...]

In the coming weeks the number of posts on this blog is likely to increase. I’m going to publish short commentaries on and selections of items I find interesting from around the web. The last two posts on the new Tube map and David Byrne’s Perfect Cities are examples of this. These posts will all [...]

My thoughts on twitter hashtag campaigns: bad twitter

I’ve set up a test installation of laconi.ca. Feel free to log in and give it a go. I’d love to have a few people testing it.
Why laconi.ca?
About 10 days ago twitter went down, so I decided to give identi.ca another try. I was suitably impressed. It’s come a long way since [...]