Archive for April 14th, 2008

How To Lose Friends And Offend People On Twitter

Speaking to Teeg the other day about different types of Twitter users, it struck me that that what bugs me with some other users of the service bugs me on other networks as well.
To put it bluntly, what bugs me is one sided conversations.
Twitter is one very handy, and powerful, communications tool that has been [...]

Residents Plead For A Name Change Because Nobody Likes A Bogan

Residents of Bogan Place in Wahroonga, in Sydneys northern suburbs have given weight to the fact that no one likes a “Bogan”.
Residents of the street are begging the local council to change the name because of the stigma associated with Boganism.
Just what is a ‘Bogan’, and why don’t people like them?
One definition that I heard [...]