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Happy Read an Ebook Week! 📱 📚 📖 #ebook #ReadAnEbookWeek #ebookweek25 #eBookWeek #eBookLove #eBookSale #eBookStore #eBookShop #ForTheLoveOfBooks #BookLover #bookworm #ReadABook #ReadMoreBooks #ReadingIsFUNdamental #ReadingTime #LiteracyForAll #EducationForAll #books #learn #read #DoGood #GivingBack #GiveAway #LiteracyMatters #literacy #literature #LitWorld #StoryTelling

  Read an Ebook Week happens annually in the first full week of March, running from March 2nd to the 8th this year. Read an Ebook Week is a week-long celebration of ebooks and the readers who love them. For the one week only, publishers and authors offer thousands of original ebooks for free and at deep discounts to encourage book lovers around the globe to give ebooks a try.   Check out the…

Tech Tip: Make yourself less valuable to Meta. #TechTip brought to you by Yours *TrulyJuly*. #YoursTrulyJuly #TechTuesday #TechBlogger #tech #techie #digital #online #DigitalMarketing #OnlineMarketing #ContentMarketing #ContentModeration #FactChecking #GoodPractice #usability #UX #UserExperience #uxdesign #WebDesign #DesignThinking #CustomerJourney #BetterDigitalWorld #ContentIsKing #QualityOverQuantity #VAC #ValueAddedContent #MonopolyIsBad

  So Meta is going the same way as X by simply ditching Fact-Checking.   Get the bigger picture about the consequences as John Oliver takes a deep dive on Facebook & Content Moderation:   John Oliver goes as far as providing instructions how to make yourself a bit less valuable to Meta in protest: JohnOliverWantsYourRatErotica.com.     Facebook is not good for you. It fuels FOMO. Switch off and…

Usability Fail: Meta ends Fact-Checking for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. #UsabilityFail brought to you by Yours *TrulyJuly*. #YoursTrulyJuly #TechTuesday #TechBlogger #TechTip #tech #techie #digital #online #DigitalMarketing #OnlineMarketing #ContentMarketing #ContentModeration #FactChecking #GoodPractice #usability #UX #UserExperience #uxdesign #WebDesign #DesignThinking #CustomerJourney #BetterDigitalWorld #ContentIsKing #QualityOverQuantity #VAC #ValueAddedContent #MonopolyIsBad

  On January 7, 2025 Meta made the announcement that they are ending their third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model. With this, they follow a similar community-driven content moderation program launched by X (formerly Twitter) in 2021 that became widespread on X in 2023.   This, despite research showing how the ‘community notes’ model –which combines automation with…

Cape Town Fire sets Table Mountain alight. #Fire #CapeTownFire #Wildfire #firefighting #firefighters #VolunteerWildfireServices #TableMountainFire #SANParks #TableMountainNP #SafetyMountain #cptfrs #vwsfires #WorkingonFire #WOF_WC #FireIsEveryonesFight

  Cycling home battling strong winds, a surreal picture awaited me in the CBD: Table Mountain on fire.           At no point did I feel worried, the Cape Town fires raging on Devil’s Peak in 2021 were far more scary. And indeed, the next morning the Table Mountain inferno was ‘largely contained’. However, there are warnings that Cape Town is not immune to a Los Angeles type fire…

Wishing you a rattical Valentine's Day 2025! 🐭 💕 #RatsMakeGreatPets #rattical #Valentine's #ValentinesDay #ValentinesGift #ValentinesCard #EmotionalSupportAnimal #PortRATure #pet #rat #rattie #PetRat #FancyRat #RatLove #RatsAreAwesome #CuteRats #RatsAsPets #PetsNotPests #RattieSitting #RatSitter #RatHotel #ILoveRats #RatMom #humom #RattieTreat #AdoptDontShop #YoursTrulyJuly

  Happy Valentine’s Day!   Be My #Valentine 🙂   Me thinks of You ♥   Me is in LOVE   #Strawberry #Delivery ♥   #Sweet as #Chocolate ♥   Me #loves You 🙂     Follow Rats Make Great Pets on Facebook and Instagram. #RattieTip brought to you by #YoursTrulyJuly.    

Tech Blog: CoSchedule still shows Twitter logo. #YoursTrulyJuly #TechBlogger #TechBlog #TechTuesday #tech #techie #digital #online #DigitalMarketing #OnlineMarketing #usability #UX #UserExperience #uxdesign #WebDesign #DesignThinking #CustomerJourney #ContentMarketing #GoodPractice #Twitter #X #logo #branding

As I’m checking out social media automation tools, I’m surprised to see: CoSchedule still uses the Twitter logo on their page:   Normally I’d say this is why you need to do an audit of your website and proofread your content. But I wonder if this is a mistake? Or do some secretly wish the good old days back when Twitter was still Twitter?   How do you feel about this? Miss little Larry the…

Starlink complains about BEE and pulls out of SA while Eutelsat connects 1 mil in sub-Saharan Africa. #TechBlog #tech #digital #online #DigitalMarketing #OnlineMarketing #ContentMarketing #usability #UX #UserExperience #uxdesign #WebDesign #DesignThinking #CustomerJourney #BetterDigitalWorld

  SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has withdrawn its planned participation in regulatory hearings led by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA).   An ICASA spokesperson said SpaceX notified the regulator on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, that it would no longer participate in oral presentations taking place this week.  The notice was issued…