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The Sick Relationship Between Mahinda And Ranil
Kissing politicians, photo taken in 2006 What is going on with the UNP? Ranil Wickremesinghe has lost every recent election for the party and wasn’t even confident enough to run in the last...
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Devil Dancers – Wimal And Mervyn
Poster from the Deyata Kirula exhibition This country is ruled by Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers. Many ministers serve in his court. Two ministers – Wimal Weerawansa and Mervyn Silva are given...
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Online Attention
Advice to multitaskers from Sri Lanka Police I was reading an article on the brain and modern distractions, on my phone, but half way through I was thinking I should tweet it. I was in the midst of...
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My Opinion On The Commission
Myself in the background, today’s Daily Mirror I went to the Lessons Learnt And Reconciliation Commission a few times. War Commission if you will. These are my impressions. It’s, at best, half empty....
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Photo Catchers
Colombo Monthly Cover I was at Acropolis getting some fried something when I saw a catchy magazine on the counter. I looked again and my photo was on the cover of the magazine (Colombo Monthly). I...
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Tamil Circles
An actual Tamil circle, from Tamil Nadu, which is really quite cool TamilNet sort of lost it when the war ended. TamilNet, if you’re unaware, was the LTTE mouthpiece then an anti-KP mouthpiece and now...
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Twitter Meetup Today, #TweetUpSL
Photo of the meetup location (Coco Veranda) from a review by Lanka Reviewed Sri Lanka is having its first Twitter Meetup today (the 26th) at Coco Veranda on Ward Place at 5 o’clock. Sri Lanka is full...
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Facebook Girls
One of the sites in question, even laid out like Facebook with a stolen model photo There are now quite a few websites where people take photos of girls from Facebook and upload them to blogs. Some of...
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Learnings On Citizen Journalism
Mahinda’s Facebook page from the short-lived Fake Facebook Drama of 2007 Teaching social media is a bit like teaching people to be social. Most people just learn when they’re young. Greg Berger had...
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Uzbeck Dentist Turned Sex Worker
Uzbek legs, photo by Navin Weeraratne My friend Navin Weeraratne is a master of the Facebook photo album as art form. This is his most recent work, a photo interview with an Uzbek prostitute, told...
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A Facebook App For Jobs (Jobcast Review)
Jobcast in action. Nothing crazy, but gets the job done. Screenshot. Facebook is pretty good for recruiting. Through a FB page you can share information. Through FB Ads, you can target good...
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Facebook Ads (A General Review)
The Facebook Ads dashboard, diagrammed by The Lost Agency (PDF) In the old days, advertising was sold based on size and demographics. If you put an ad in the New York Times it would reach a lot of...
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Social Marketing: People Or Clicks?
Facebook Ads dashboard. Note the social metrics (reach, connections, etc) Social marketing, blecchhh. Is there anti-social marketing? But that seems to be the term. Facebook Ads have gotten hammered...
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Facebook Account Groups: For Multiple Clients
Managing different accounts is just one click, once you setup Account Groups Facebook Ads are a great value for any client, but you don’t want to pay for them yourself. When I started I ran them under...
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The Business Case For Social Bubbles
Yammer, which looks cool mainly cause it looks just like Facebook by Sun A lot of companies deploy a lot of disjointed, expensive software to help people work together. These apps suck because they...
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Return Of The IFrame
The original IFrame. Embedding an image within an image, called the Droste effect, via Wikipedia IFrames let you stick a webpage within a webpage. This is cool, but can quickly lead to Inception style...
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China Buying Stake In Facebook?
Facebook interns are smarter than your CEO. Image by Paul Butler Business Insider quoted an anonymouse saying that China wants to buy a big piece of Facebook. Gordon Chang, a China skeptic, hyperbowls...
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How Tech Companies Don’t Create Jobs
Photo by bugbbq The new tech-industrialization doesn’t create many jobs. Not directly. Apple employs around 50,000, which seems good until you consider that their Chinese supplier FoxConn employs...
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Bookend The Elephant: Great Photo
Image by Chanishka Colombage, Facebook I saw this awesome photo from my friend Chanishka Colombage on Facebook. To repeat, it’s awesome. It shows him as a child riding an elephant in 1984, and as an...
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29. Modern Birthday Etiquette
A recent photo of me at TweetUpSL, by Malinthe As I get older, I get less presents but more wishes. This is kinda OK. I suppose this process culminates in a large funeral. People knock Facebook for...
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Does Milinda Update His Own Facebook?
Like this, except with a computer. Photo from his Gamin Gamata listening campaign. People keep asking me. I’m helping Milinda Moragoda with his campaign for Mayor of Colombo. Anyways, people keep...
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Facebook And The Colombo Election
Madhura Vithana’s Facebook page This Colombo Municipal Council race has seen a lot more candidates get onto social networks, especially Facebook. Sanjana is calling for people to hack their web...
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Facebook, Twitter And The Black Hole Of Right Now
Most FB and Twitter links fizzle within hours (graph via bit.ly) Facebook and Twitter are like crack. It’s like, gimme crack, gimme crack, gimme crack, and then you can’t remember shit. The emphasis...
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Coke And Ketchup In Glass Bottles
I’m showing Kik cause I like it better than Coke. I think packaged goods cost more in emerging markets than, uh, emerged. But at least we get Coke and ketchup in glass bottles. I was reading about...
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Sri Lankan Memes
This is pretty awesome. This Sri Lankan Memes Facebook Group is pretty funny. I’ve include a few samples here. They’re generally variations on memebase style gags (which is still funny), but some are...
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