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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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  • Twitter Vox was a success

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTonight I did my first proper live program on Operator 11 and it went really well. The participants for this show were Loudmouthman of Loudmouthman.com, Phil Campbell of me.dm and Rotjong of Lowlands 2007 mashup. We discussed the twitter meetup but quickly moved onto a variety of subjects. The conversation begins…

  • McLuhan’s Thoughts And How They May Relate To Twitter

    Reading Time: 4 minutes“The simultaneity of electric communication, also characteristic of our nervous system, makes each of us present and accessible to every other person in the world. To a large degree, our co-presence everywhere at once in the electric age is a fact of passive, rather than active, experience. Actively we are more likely…

  • Forums Are The Sandbox Of The Web

    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe concept of community is an old one, coming from an evolutionary need for more than one pair of eyes to watch out for predators and other threats. over time the sense of community has evolved and become as great as it is today. There are however pockets of social discord. I…

  • Net Neutrality and The United Kingdom

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSlashdot today quoted Small fries as saying that the Net Neutrality Debate crosses the Atlantic. Analysts believe that ISPs will be forced to place stringent caps on consumers’ internet use and raise prices to curb usage. Attempts have been made by players in the industry to form a united front against the…

  • Operator 11, Your Own Television Show

    Reading Time: 4 minutesOperator 11 has taken video sharing and webcasting to the next level. Whereas websites such as youtube, google video, myspace, and Facebook all allow you to upload and share videos this one allows you two additional features. The first difference can be spotted when you sign up and arrive at the profile…

  • Twitter IRL

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to the London twitter meetup and enjoyed the event. I’m used to going out and hearing people talk about music and other things but here is a community that was talking about technology and internet-based activities. Sizemore and Trusted Places organised the event which took place at the…

  • Wikipedia Reaches 2 Million Articles

    Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent article has brought to the world’s attention that Wikipedia has over 2 million articles on its website and that’s great. What it means is that thousands of people have taken a little time out of their day to provide what knowledge they had to a global audience through their small…

  • Patent Misuse

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA recent blog post is bringing people’s attention to a group who want to sue Facebook for patent infringement. The problem with this patent is that it is so broad in it’s language that it would include almost all social networking websites. An Information and Application Distribution System (IADS) is disclosed.…

  • Satellite Broadcasting and Broadband

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSatellite broadcasting has been part of daily life for me for over a decade and a half by now. As a result of this, I have watched a vast amount of programs before they were released in the country where I was living. One effect of this has been that rather than…

  • The Cult of the Amateur – thoughts on the book

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I heard with what hate one podcaster talked about the Cult Of The Amateur I told myself that I should read this book because it addresses a question that is at least two hundred years old, mainly the difference between high culture and low culture. High culture is seen as everything…