Check out Jeff Jarvis and Robert Scobleizer for insight into the goldmine that is the live data & metadata behind Twitter (and to a larger extent, Facebook).

Once filtering of Twitter becomes better and better, there’ll be some amazing value in the link economy.

I basically do not twitter unless I have something useful/a useful link.

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Check out Jeff Jarvis and Robert Scobleizer for insight into the goldmine that is the live data & metadata behind Twitter (and to a larger extent, Facebook).

Once filtering of Twitter becomes better and better, there’ll be some amazing value in the link economy.

I basically do not twitter unless I have something useful/a useful link.

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The links are often to either uninteresting photos or their own blog/news items which you’d have read anyway (most journos do this and it gets annoying quite quickly).

I keep the list of people I’m following pretty short. The comic, Eurosport’s David Harmon @spokesmen, Brad (naturally) and Wegelius. I check out who they and others are following in case something catches my eye but most of the time they don’t grab my attention. Simon Gerrans proved interesting recently because he’s a TdF rider who wasn’t in the Tour. I’m sure George H, Lance and Levi and all those other chaps are really fine people but that doesn’t mean I want to devour every morsel from their verbal table.

I drop into CN now only when I want minor race reports or stats – the ones not available on my usual stop-off points. The new look takes longer to load (and I’ve always been impatient), and it means tech articles and nutrition are less likely to catch my eye (though it’s partly because I spend so little time there).

I generally don’t click on ads – partly because I’m in the UK so they mostly won’t apply and partly because if I want something I’ll decide in my own time then go and find it. But I’m already an advertiser’s worst nightmare – I’m short of money, only buy when I can justify the purchase and check everything before I spend. And I use Opera’s Block Content feature to avoid those pulsing, animated Flash ads that gobble up download and processing resources.

The links are often to either uninteresting photos or their own blog/news items which you’d have read anyway (most journos do this and it gets annoying quite quickly).

I keep the list of people I’m following pretty short. The comic, Eurosport’s David Harmon @spokesmen, Brad (naturally) and Wegelius. I check out who they and others are following in case something catches my eye but most of the time they don’t grab my attention. Simon Gerrans proved interesting recently because he’s a TdF rider who wasn’t in the Tour. I’m sure George H, Lance and Levi and all those other chaps are really fine people but that doesn’t mean I want to devour every morsel from their verbal table.

I drop into CN now only when I want minor race reports or stats – the ones not available on my usual stop-off points. The new look takes longer to load (and I’ve always been impatient), and it means tech articles and nutrition are less likely to catch my eye (though it’s partly because I spend so little time there).

I generally don’t click on ads – partly because I’m in the UK so they mostly won’t apply and partly because if I want something I’ll decide in my own time then go and find it. But I’m already an advertiser’s worst nightmare – I’m short of money, only buy when I can justify the purchase and check everything before I spend. And I use Opera’s Block Content feature to avoid those pulsing, animated Flash ads that gobble up download and processing resources.

As for twitter being “dangerous”, well, people are lazy, but on the whole (apart from the potential LA stalker type you seem to evoke ;-) ), they just aren’t that daft.

As for twitter being “dangerous”, well, people are lazy, but on the whole (apart from the potential LA stalker type you seem to evoke ;-) ), they just aren’t that daft.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/66th-tour-de-pologne-upt/stages/stage-4/photos/74071

Can’t blame them from wanting to celebrate the Giro I guess.

These sloppy mistakes should never be happening by a publication like cyclingnews!