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[mogga]

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Worth a look if people object to it and then they can report

[Jim K]

this twatter term appears relevant for the DIYbanter bummarz:

If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates; If you post misleading links;

Jim K

[John Rumm]

Make you w the twatter space would rapidly fill with nothing but links ;-)

However, that did get me thinking.... (its ok I was sitting down)

Is there any value to us in creating our own ukdiy twitter feed? We have loads of decent articles that we could post links to.

It would probably boost traffic to our FAQ and WIKI sites - which may encourage more people to contribute content.

[Tim Watts]

Yes - I think it would be valuable. I modiled my sig for this group alone (yes, I know it's lots of lines, but I'll stand by that)

Twatter is used for serious purposes[1] - I feed my systems announcements from a blog to both RSS and Twatter. It gives people a choice and once set up it is near zero maintenance.

[1] Southeastern Trains users rely on it as other source of info are rubbish. Southeastern themselves will not lower themselves to using it but National Rail do feed out localised tweets regarding network problems.

[Tim Streater]

Change "innaneness" (which is not a word) to "inanity" (which is).

To see this, double-click on the word in question to highlight it, right-mouse on the word, and select "Look up in dictionary".

[polygonum]

But "inaneness" is a valid word!

[Huge]

Only in your newsreader.

[Tim Streater]

No, in all my applications.

[Huge]

Sigh. Just because a particular incantation does something on your computer doesn't mean it will do it on everyone's.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Tim Streater writes

Not in Turnpike either:-)

*perceieved* looks a bit odd as well. Perhaps it is to catch both options? >

[Brian Gaff]

Of course you could construct a set of tweets to promote Usenet as well as the original social network with no censorship.

Brian

[Tim Streater]

Really? You astonish me.

[John Rumm]

So the second question would then be, say we do drive extra traffic, should we seek to monetise it ourselves? (product deal links to suppliers etc). And if we do, what should we do with the money?

(Monthly competition - win a new tool etc? - some of the other DIY sites do similar)

[Tim+]

Hmm... I'm having trouble rearranging "dislexia" into "dyslexia" (or perhaps you're toying with us). ;-)

Tim

[Adrian]

In message , Tim Watts writes

Is your sig block copyrighted, or can we use the gist of it (without your personal stuff) ?.

Adrian

[Graham.]

Tim, keep 'inaneness', just spell it correctly. Likewise 'perceived', i before e except after c.

[polygonum]

A lot of medical words have changed spelling over the past years. For example, sulfate is now accepted! Some of the DYS- words are now sometimes/often/always DIS- words.

Mind, far, far more occurrences of dyslexia than dislexia.

[polygonum]

Did you see QI?

That rule (so they claimed) is literally more honoured in the breach than the observance. So no longer taught in schools. (Mind a lot of the words had *CIE but not as a simple "see" sound within a word such as I have always taken as implicit to the rule - things like specie, lacie, etc.)

[Tim Watts]

My purpose in life is to give all people with an eye for good ENglish, eye- ache.

[Tim Watts]

Help yourselves :)