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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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  • Adverts ignored on facebook

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor one of his campaigns, out of 10,080 impressions there were only 8 clicks. The average cost-per-click for Fred was $0.08 and the average CPM was $0.06. This is a less than stellar performance. (source) Of course people don’t click and there’s a really good reason. They go to facebook to…

  • Last night’s Social Media Club event

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night Hill & Knowlton organised a Social Media club event in central London to discuss a number of aspects surrounding blogging, marketing and PR. The Event started with a quick introduction to how certain bloggers have voiced their intense dislike of being pitched to by PR companies whilst others are…

  • Why I don’t care about the iphone anymore

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHad it not been for the ipod touch I would still care about the Iphone and I’d be down at regent street now with the geeks waiting for the device to be released into the wild. As things are not only can I not afford the device but more than anything…

  • As featured on Seesmix

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter just one day of use of Seemsic use…

  • A seesmic morning to you

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBig Red Nose Just one of many seesmic videos to come.

  • The new social scene – Seesmic and Twitter

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHow many of you have a wifi enabled laptop. How many of you have a wap enabled phone. How many of you have msn messenger. The reason I’m asking you this question is the following. I’ve been using twitter for several months now and it’s whilst working on my dissertation that I…

  • Thoughts on Teamwork

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTeamwork is a pain because it requires the collaboration of others. As Social Media people this may not sound like a challenge to you since you love having un-conferences and such but to others it’s a real challenge. Someone currently living in my home was telling me about how she would have…

  • Why people going to the graduation are enjoying a farce

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf I came from a prestigious university like Cambridge, Oxford or many others were the university is steeped in century old traditions then I would feel a great inclination to go to my graduation. As things stand I don’t feel any need. Everyone else would go to lectures and leave as…

  • Welcome to the tweekend

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe tweekend is a weekend spent reading twitter posts by all those you are following. I found out about this word earlier today because i am following twitionary, an amusing dictionary that takes twitter terminology and brings it into every day parlance. No self respecting twitterholic should live without it. Kidding…

  • Open Social vs Portal facebook

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLoudmouthman, amongst others was expressing his desire for a means by which to aggregate all our online data through one central account. I though of Freebase and Openid and how they could work. Google though had other thoughts. Whilst Facebook behaves like a portal opensocial helps agggregate content. Facebook assumes thatyou come…