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  • Swiss mountain cleaners

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s April fool’s day and the swiss have taken advantage of their reputation to start a funny promotional campaign. It’s about the birds soiling the mountains and having crews of people specifically to resolve this problem. Of course it’s an April fool’s joke.

  • Scriptfrenzy – The challenge

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember when I wrote 50,000 words in one month? Today’s challenge is a little different. From tomorrow, and for the next 30 days I will have the task of writing 100 pages for a script within 30 days. That’s about three pages a day and it shouldn’t be too hard. I’ve…

  • Friendconnect

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I got round to installing friendconnect on this blog. This means that everyone that has a gmail account can log in and become part of the community sprouting from this blog. You can also comment about things in general now. There’s a new layout now, as a result information is…

  • The re-tweet is an easy way to pretend you’re listening.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of people love the re-tweet because they believe that it is a fast and effective way to tell both their followers on twitter as well as the person being retweeted that they are listening or that they thought this was a interesting point. This is true in a number of…

  • Social media as a lifestyle choice, rather than a stop gap

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the biggest ironies of the social media is that those whose profession it is to get brands and companies to set up a presence within the social media environment themselves see it as a waste of time, and no substitute for what most people would refer to as real life,…

  • A “Transcribe this” button for seesmic videos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomething I would love to see on Seesmic, and which would encourage me to use it more is a “transcribe this” button for when I record certain videos. The logic is simple. Sometimes we discuss things that we would like to see discussed but not everyone wants to listen to us…

  • Dear twitter friends…

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear twitter friends I have deleted my main account due to tired I am with twitter and it’s poor performance. I am in other places. I’ll catch you there.

  • The twitter schedule – updated

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor two years I’ve been using twitter and during that time I have spent far too much time on the site. As a result I built many friendships. Always paying attention to twitter, even when mobile was a great way of using twitter in the past, but due to people having…

  • The Facebook and Friendfeed lifestye

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFacebook and friendfeed are now the same thing. They both provide exactly the same thing but for different audiences. Facebook is a network of real friends, where you share everything with those that count on you as a friend. That’s where you get party pictures, relationship statuses and more. Friendfeed is where…

  • Friendfeed Notifier fun

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that twitter has gone mainstream and fewer people are obsessive about it I’ve been trying to walk the gang plank and arrived on friendfeed. It’s an rss aggregating site, much like facebook where you have none of your friends, but don’t worry. You can populate it with various news rss…