Words & Tricks

Video: Twitter in plain English

I’ve been getting a touch obsessed with Twitter these days. I used to wonder, “Why?” Well, there are some fascinating and fun people on there, and 140 characters just fits into my attention span.

This video, after the jump, from CommonCraft explains it well.

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Talking Trackbacks

For some reason I’ve always been confused by the process of using trackbacks and why they are important in blogging.

Thank goodnedss for the web. Teli Adlam explain it well
here, at least in terms of WordPress. Considering this blog is now WordPress-powered (I migrated from Blogger), I found it very handy.

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