Don't blame Ruby on Rails for Twitter's less than brilliant performance of late, blame it on the framework, and over eager developers in a rush to finish their work. Ruby on Rails is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. To build an application in Rails, you start by defining a collection of objects that model the things your application will do, then you write controllers that juggle your model in ... Read full entry

We Travel in Tribes Twitter stripped back and laid bare, just the way Twitterites like it. Twitter is a social network, yes, but it's a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise and, for that, I'm thankful, because I've got work to do. Yes, I could spend days tidying my profile and scrubbing my friends list, but to what end? I want to know more people, and sure, it's ... Read full entry

Community 2.0 with Twitter A little more about why MyBlogLog have set up themselves (yes, it really is them. and not someone who has hi-jacked their name) up on Twitter. They've also come up with a clever way to keep track of their followers, whose number could potentially reach several thousand. So a single account to broadcast the occasional shout out or service update is a no-brainer. The harder, ... Read full entry

Why short is tweet for the blogging community I'm still to really get into Twitter (in fact I'm yet to login again after setting up my account months ago...) but Guardian media and technology writer, Jeff Jarvis, is a convert. I just Twittered this: "I'm writing a column about Twitter and Twittering that." Not everybody on Twitter saw that update on my life, only those people who care ... Read full entry