Author Archives: swerveball

While I Have a Sec.. Tweetdeck Doesn’t Sync

By swerveball | Published: October 28, 2009
Tweetdeck is great. Tweetdeck for iPhone is great. I’ve tried plenty of other twitter clients, but I’ve always ended up back at Tweetdeck. It just does what I want it to do, and I guess there’s now some of that inertia – it’s hassle to move (despite twitter lists which makes the web interface much [...]
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Twitter Lists of Them

By swerveball | Published: October 26, 2009
Last night A week or so ago I made a small list on Twitter – simply called ‘them.’ It was a tedious task, as for the most part Twitter didn’t seem to want to accept most of the names I selected without being told several times. This is the list of people I have in [...]
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Twitter in Google & Bing – a New Reputation Management Headache?

By swerveball | Published: October 22, 2009
So the deals are done and now the big boys get to play with all of Twitter’s up-to-the-minute data. Google looked like they had to do a spot of positive reputation management of their own – quickly pushing their story in response to a better prepared Microsoft. But now it’s official there’s lots of discussion [...]
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Jimmy Carr: Not Bill Hicks

By swerveball | Published: October 22, 2009
It’s a weird thing when you’ve been away for a couple of days at a search conference then you come home to be thrown straight into another kind of night out. I’ve been looking forward to seeing Jimmy Carr doing his new stand-up for a while, although I’ve not really talked about it. I struggle [...]
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For a Long Time

By swerveball | Published: September 22, 2009
I’ve been trying hard not to write about search or marketing or social media or any of that stuff. And that’s left me hardly writing about anything (especially not here). Although I have been sharing some random things on posterous and my collection of quotes on tumblr is growing steadily, there’s something missing. So I’m [...]
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Swerve Ball Pen

By swerveball | Published: May 26, 2009
Oh WOW! They made a Swerve Ball Pen (or Swerve Ballpen? Swerveball Pen?). I have to get one of these. I wonder if they have an affiliate scheme…
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A Few Twitter Things

By swerveball | Published: May 16, 2009
Apparently, this is the funniest Twitter account so far, according to Mashable… if you rate them. Oh, and God has one too. And while we’re on the subject, I’m normally rambling @Swerveball. I passed my 1000th tweet without really noticing (although some people like to keep track of these ‘milestones’ I seem to let them pass [...]
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Life is Good!

By swerveball | Published: March 6, 2009
My brother keeps sending me this link. Over and over. And I keep watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk Life is good.
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No Gimmicks.

By swerveball | Published: January 8, 2009
I’ve been a fan of RjD2 for quite a while, and TBH most of the stuff he’s put his hand to is golden. This is a piece of SOUL POSITION (as I’ve just gotten hold of a copy of their Unlimited EP, which I’ve been looking for longtime – although it’s not off that EP, it’s [...]
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The Electro-Funk-Daddy Superstar Parrot

By swerveball | Published: October 9, 2008
Well, after the totally cool cooking up a beat, I happened to actually login to YouTube when I was looking up that shadow video… little did I know that Dillon of the Clogged had left me and interesting parrot beatboxing skit oooh over a year ago. So here it is: And another buddy from over at Sound [...]
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