Sliced Wikizine

Sydney siders awoke on September 23 to a blood red sky. The fiery haze was the result of the sun hitting the blanket of dust, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Jane Golding said.

"The reason for the dust is we had some really strong winds in the inland areas of NSW and in South Australia for a sustained period yesterday," she said. Source: smh

As far as the climate change and ETS debate goes, the timing couldn't be worse for Malcolm Turnbull and the coalition. A wave of strange weather has hit eastern Australia and the words on everyone's lips is 'climate change'. This coincides with Kevin Rudd's attendance at a special United Nations climate change summit in New York and an ultimatum to Malcolm Turnbull from Senator Penny Wong: "If Opposition amendments are not made available in October, the Government's capacity to consider these amendments seriously, and with appropriate prudence, would be significantly constrained... " Her words carry the implicit threat of an early election. Source: Herald Sun

One of my followers on Twitter yesterday, and I wished I could remember the User name that posted it, posted a link marked as "What if Twitter shut down?" You can read the entire article here.

After reading the post, I wondered who dropped the ball on this? And what if indeed Twitter could be ordered to shut down, what would it mean to any of the other social-media sites like Facebook? What would this mean to other micro-blogging sites? Are they infringing on TechRadium's Patent also?

One would think that with the success of Twitter, TechRadium would work with Twitter to see how they could build on the usefulness of Twitter. Last I read, 4 million users were registered with Twitter. You cannot dismiss a community of 4 million people from one day to another.