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  • 59 Twitter is Too Simple- Twitter is Just Right

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter is one of those things that’s really hard to explain due to it’s sheer simplicity. It’s a website that allows you to answer the “what are you doing question”. That is the initial phase. When you’re new to twitter you’ll be confused because you know no one therefore the codes and…

  • The Brogan hundred

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesChris Brogan recently wrote a list of one hundred things he would like people to blog about and I would like to make my way through the list. It may take 100 days but it may take fewer. It depends on how busy I get and what interesting things are there to…

  • Yet another episode. Twittervox 4

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYet another episode of twittervox was recorded today at the new time of 1pm British summertime whilst outside the weather is more autumnal. Nik Butler of h and I discussed the new media landscape and how social networks in the real and virtual world were interacting together. Loudmouthman focussed his attention…

  • The mobile phone app

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryday at least one friend has one of their friends lose their mobile phone and all numbers on that device. As a result you find that there are hundreds of groups with the title “named individual has lost their phone” where everyone is expected to post their mobile number for quick…

  • Friendships and twitter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I left the University halls for the last time so it signalled the beginning of a new era in my life. No longer would I go to the student bar or the editing suites to chat with friends and see what they were doing. Now it was time to move to…

  • Slow data transfers and self satisfaction

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    Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with technology is a great way of learning new skills but occasionaly you are let down by it. This happened to me tonight when I wanted to do episode four of twittervox. The entire day I had an excellent connection and things were downloading at a good speed. Wait until…

  • Podcamp UK – A conversation about the Social Media

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring two other main conversations in other rooms a group of people of which Phil Campbell, Loudmouthman,Jeff Buckley, Jason and others talked about what they thought web 2.0 was about. View the video  This is no more than a cursory look at the type of conversations you could be a part…

  • PodcampUK – Part 1 of the debrief

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are many podcamps but Podcampuk was my podcamp. This was an event which was similar to just one previous experience. It was an event where everyone you talked to had at least one website and others may have had several. They also used twitter and prepared radio programs. What is great…

  • tired from the event

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been a good evening at Podcampuk. The afternoon’s sessions were quite funny and the band was good. I enjoyed filming the band thanks to the diversity of shots I could aim to get. We had some interesting interviews of which two were with teachers. One was a University level professor…

  • Podcamp UK Day 1

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday has been an informative day where there have been many conferences to participate in. The morning saw the introduction of the event whilst later on a great discussion took place about social networking and I’ve got the footage to give you an idea of the direction the conference was taking.…