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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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  • Twittervox, flatlisters and a possible trip to Paris

    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s Twittervox episode we had Nik Butler talking about his idea of the flatlister. The concept is based around the idea that when someone is promoting themselves and building their own persona they are a flat lister. In other words they are in charge of their own persona and their own…

  • Travel with an ipod touch

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTravel with an i pod touch is great because of what it can do. I was able to test the usability of the device on two flights between Geneva and London and found the experience to be good. Whilst I was travelling on the tube I prefered to keep it hidden so…

  • Thoughts on Joost

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoost recently went out of private beta and anyone can join. It hasen’t changed much in the last few months in terms of look and interface and there are quite a few programs giving error messages. I’m already looking forward to what will come after Joost.

  • Dependability

    Reading Time: < 1 minute” Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.” (Facebook as of this morning) Reliability is the single most important thing for a website. If, as they suggest, facebook is down for a few hours…

  • The joy of flying

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve flown geneva to London so many times that I’m completely indifferent about the flight. I’m not so indifferent about the consistent flight delays that I always get. At the moment today’s delay is nothing but one hr fourty. That’s a delay that lasts longer than the flight. I wish flying…

  • On television accuracy within this “New Media” landscape

    Reading Time: 4 minutesSince I had some free time I went over to the Old Theatre of the London school of economics and what we found out from that conversation is that people don’t trust television. According to one of the chairs this was at a ratio of 4:3. This is an interesting situation since…

  • The SMS application – Facebook

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI feel absolutely no need for a free SMS application when I have something as powerful as twitter. If more people would use it then I would have a lot more IRL friends following my moves. As things are the idea of sending short messages to just one or two individuals…

  • Three lectures in two days

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the past two days I have been to three lectures of sorts. I went to listen to what people had to say about aid workers and journalism, what A crude Awakening was like and finally today to a talk about whether television should be trusted. All of these events were…

  • Wifi detection

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwice yesterday I was surprised at how fast the new ipod detects networks. The first time was in one of wagamama’s restaurants. It found ten within two seconds of opening up the application. The second time was in a block of flats. Both times it detected the networks within a matter…

  • 17 After the Event- Carrying the Conversation Forward

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are two key events I have been to since the beginning of summer. These are PodcampUK and the Twitter Meetup. Both of these events have been followed up by a continuing collaboration between participants. The first event was the London twitter meetup. I went there knowing just two participants, Sizemore and…