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Learning more about Dziga Vertov and his views on cinema

Nov 2, 2007

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in fun, Post-university life, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDziga Vertov is an interesting personality because of his ideas of the Cinema eye. His notion was that with the cinema eye, the Kino Glaz you could capture life unawares whilst being involved in the creative treatment of actuality. After making some quick money by answering some social networking questions I…

Twittoholism

Oct 22, 2007

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richard

in fun, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwittoholism is seeing the world through twitter. Rather than reading newspapers, books and other intellectual adventures you see the world through what others are twittering about. It’ a bit like a chatroom but you take this one with you wherever you go, from your bedroom to the living room, across town…

Bill Palmer of Iprong 3c, twittermail3k twittter 3k+

Oct 15, 2007

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in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s news is as follows. Having seen that Bill Palmer of the Iprong podcast and website would add the 300th friend on Facebook I decided I would take this opportunity to add him. His podcast is “for the ipod generation so take the time to listen to it. It’s mainly about…

The Kendra Party – Networking Event and Party

Oct 13, 2007

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in social networking, tech related, work

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I went to the Kendra event not knowing what to expect from the event. It started at 6pm and ended by 9pm and i had the opportunity to meet with a few people of which Brendon Kenny of VK media and the Jummp project. A large amount of metadata…

The Facebook Friend Density Map

Oct 12, 2007

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in facebook

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Friend density map is an interesting one. It shows you where the highest concentration of your friends is. It’s a good idea when you’ve got friends spread around the world as we do. It’s a shame it’s limited only to the US at the moment. I can only see six…

England is Top EU country for social networking

Oct 11, 2007

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in facebook, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a recent article in the Times England is top EU country for social networking with 5.6 hrs a month spent on social networking websites such as Facebook: Britons are the ‘social networking’ champions of Europe, displaying a far greater appetite for websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo than…

What is a Twitterstorm

Oct 9, 2007

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in social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Twitterstorm is a description of an event where hundreds of 140 character messages are sent at the same time. The most recent example of this occurrence is the one that took place when news of Jaiku being swallowed by google broke. Both Twitter and Jaiku are similar. They both give…

People appreciate video of an event for the second time

Oct 8, 2007

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richard

in editing, facebook, London, social networking, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few months ago I filmed the Silent Disco in Paddington station, one of London’s main train stations. As a result of the coverage of the event many people were happy to see it. With the footage I have recently filmed of the events that took place on the 6th of…

Invisible without a website

Oct 8, 2007

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in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, work

Reading Time: 3 minutesHaving a website is essential in today’s media landscape for one simple reason. You don’t exist until I can hyperlink to a website containing examples of your work and describing what you do. This is particularly true in today’s new media landscape. For the minimalist among you a facebook or myspace page…

Twittervox, flatlisters and a possible trip to Paris

Oct 3, 2007

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in PodcampUK, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, travel, twitter, work

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…

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