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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • The Social Media Autumn

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLiz Strauss wrote about the leaves and the trees and that got me thinking of the Social Media autumn. It’s the time of the year when everyone gets back to work after summer and they no longer have as much time to be sociable, whether online or offline and as the…

  • Testing flickr integration

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s no longer the time of year to see this. I’m just playing with flickr integration into the blog, to see the result.

  • The online digital self

    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1999 I decided that I would spend 21 days without touching a computer once. That’s because I was in Tanzania for a trip during which we helped to build schools for children in the area. I had decided to do that because so many spoke about the illness of spending too…

  • The Francofous like to migrate

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Francofous are part of the seesmic community and can be differentiated by their ability to speak french and their avatars. Originally formed around Seesmic and twitter they are now migrating to both plurk and phreadz, two services I have talked about in the past. What is nice about this community…

  • Phreadz

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePhreadz is a multimedia sharing site from the comfort of where you’re sitting right now. It allows for the sharing of multimedia files straight from your mobile phone to a website where each media content is added to a thread, hence the name phreadz. There is a simple idea behind this…

  • Touch typing on the N95 8GB

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst at a number of concerts I had to type fast, very fast on a mobile phone keyboard. Within a very short time I began touch typing. I can type whilst looking around. That’s a useful feature of certain phones. It’s useful because it means the keyboard is well designed. Are…

  • phreadz to blog

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAttempt two. Hoping it works posted using Phreadz by warzabidul

  • John Cleese on Seesmic next week

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJohn Cleese on Seesmic Tuesday 7th at 12am Pacific TimeSo it’s 21h00 in France, 8pm in the UK, 3pm East Coast. John Cleese will reply your questions. See his biography here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000092/ Next week on Seesmic we can look forward to seeing John Cleese and asking him questions. If you don’t…

  • The Francofous Show 2

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEt voila que PiouPiou nous donne la deuxième version de la version Française du “Seesmix Français” Francofous Show 2Blog : http://francofousshow.wordpress.com Twitter : francofousshow Mail : francofousshow@gmail.com

  • On twestival

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first tweetup I went to saw a crowd of no more than sixty people. The twestival had many more. Enough to fill the Doon club. So many new faces but not many new people to follow. It’s fun to see how big the London twitter community has become. The usual…