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Month: April 2007

  • To all facebook users please take this survey

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the purpose of the last assignment in my last module please take this survey on how you use facebook. Click here to take the Online Survey Thanks for your time and see you soon

  • Life on earth – as told by David Attenborough

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNatural history is an interesting topic to study although whatching the documentaries can be quite challenging. Today I decided to buy a piece of documentary result and as a result I have struggled to stay awake for over two hours. It is not that I do not like these documentaries and it…

  • Facebook Disappointment

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat makes a professional camera professional? Direct access to all of the functions without going through ten sub-menus simply to adjust the sound level or open up the iris. What was great about Facebook. Everything was available on sight, not hidden away in sub-menu. They decided overnight to “simplify” the look…

  • An academic fox for university

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you’re s student normal clocks no longer have any relevance to the way you live your life. Sometimes you go to sleep three hours after the sun rose and other times you have a nap at three in the afternoon. Occasionally you sleep from ten at night till 6 am. That’s…

  • Jaiku

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJaiku is a Finnish software that makes conversing with people easy. It’s an advanced form of chatroom and I love it. It works on the same principle as twitter with the added bonus of having feed reading and integration as a bonus. If I’m going out for the day but I…

  • First thoughts

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou know you’re a final year student when the last thing you think about before going to sleep is your dissertation. It’s also the first thing you wake up thinking of and to make matters worse you notice that a friend has joined a group called “my dissertation is driving me…

  • The foam party

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I went to the SU foam party but I was so tired that I only stayed till 2 am. It lasted till three am but the energy levels felt wrong.

  • Dissertation feedback

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for some dissertation feedback and heard that some people have not yet been to see their dissertation and if these people have seen no one then I am quite surprised. The reason for which I am surprised about this is that it’s a new form of writing which involves…

  • Dziga Vertov, the Kino Glaz and Web 2.0

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHow many of you have a digital photo camera and how many of you have uploaded pictures you’ve taken to the web? How many of you have browsed through thousand of stranger’s photographs? I was in a lecture a few days ago and we were discussing jennycam and how it was something…