We won’t bring about peace in the world merely by praying for it. We can’t expect change if we don’t take action.Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama on Twitter, 25-Feb-2019
I love my desk calendar. You never know what each new day will bring and the prescient usefulness of the cartoon to the day’s blog.
In my last article—Preparing for the social media maestrom—I discussed the dangers lurking in the world of social media and, no matter how hard one tries to cram a thought into 280 characters, the army of criticism waiting to tear you apart.
Brian TeemanWe tried to contact Brian for comment before publishing this article but he declined to respond to our request. is one of those critics. Brian’s knowledge about the Joomla! project—both technical and political—is legendary. We don’t always agree on everything but, generally, he’s someone who’s opinion should be respected. Occasionally, however, he gets a little “gamey” in his writing and can be brutal in his assessment of other people’s views.
Just because protesting something may be unsettling to some people, it doesn’t mean that agitating for change is not worthy of respect. If people feel as uncomfortable reading what I post on Twitter as I feel uncomfortable writing it then I do not regret anything I have written. We can all learn from one another and there’s hope that my critics may learn something just as my critics can teach me a thing or two, too.
In this article we highlight some of the past week’s activity on Twitter and some of the reaction to it.
When I created my first website on the internet, some twenty-plus years ago, it was a fairly nerve-racking experience. I had dabbled with HTML and Javascript for a couple of years before that but I knew nothing about cross-browser capable websites or CSS or all the other features we take for granted these days, and this internet thing was a whole new experience. Suddenly my work would be on show for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people to see
