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Jun. 16th, 2009
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Jun. 16th, 2009 12:00 pm-
Opera announces "Unite" - where the web client becomes a web server, running the applications we choose. More reading required!
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Because she wants a wider readership. Feel free to drop in and let her know what you think.
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A fascinating look at what tribalism does to people.
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Dr Wood suggests that positive self-statements cause negative moods in people with low self-esteem because they conflict with those people's views of themselves. When positive self-statements strongly conflict with self-perception, she argues, there is not mere resistance but a reinforcing of self-perception. People who view themselves as unlovable find saying that they are so unbelievable that it strengthens their own negative view rather than reversing it. Given that many readers of self-help books that encourage positive self-statements are likely to suffer from low self-esteem, they may be worse than useless.
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The only true indigenous peoples in the UK are the Welsh, and they are angry enough already. This nation was BUILT on immigration, invasion, inclusion and adaption.
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Heroin - the sedative for coughs!
Distributed Twitter
Jun. 16th, 2009 02:04 pmCan anyone see a way that a distributed Twitter could work?
Obviously you could use RSS to aggregate tweeters you like into one place - but that only covers very basic functionality. For instance, I can't see a way to both decentralise it _and_ allow for hashtag filtering over the whole database to find the tweets you like.
Any thoughts?
Obviously you could use RSS to aggregate tweeters you like into one place - but that only covers very basic functionality. For instance, I can't see a way to both decentralise it _and_ allow for hashtag filtering over the whole database to find the tweets you like.
Any thoughts?