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  • On Trendio My Portfolio Is Doing Well

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute  If you love reading the news and seeing what’s going on around the world then Trendio is an interesting site for you. I looked at the events that are going to take place and whether Trendio already has them listed. If it does then I decided to buy some stock…

  • Trendio – A Word-Based Stock Exchange

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve just started playing with Trendio which seems like an interesting website. In the past i’ve played on websites where you’re playing the stockmarket with virtual money and you can see how you’re doing without the risk of bankrupcy usually associated with investment. I’ve only been using it a few hours…

  • Digg and Mob Rule

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a copy and paste culture on the web and I don’t like it. When you go to Digg, to Youtube, to myspace and other websites what you find are short comments. They’re contributing nothing to the debate, in fact they make the online experience online less enjoyable. There has been…

  • Zattoo finally ready for England

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteZattoo is a little bit of code that allows you to watch streaming television from the comfort of your laptop rather than using a television or other device.  It’s better than Joost because they don’t discriminate against PowerPC users. It means I can watch BBC 1, 2 3 4, ITV, C4…

  • How is the word dissertation progressing through the blogopshere

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s the result when looking up three terms for dissertation on blogpulse

  • Ijustine and Laporte have demonstrated how to use twitter

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteKarina Stenquist of Mobuzz tv is confused by the notion of twitter as anything other than a means by which to distribute brainfarts, a term used by a few people. Do you remember Swatch and Swatch time? The idea was to create a universal timekeeping format which would be the same…

  • Facebook And Technological Determinism – A Case Study

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat’s the worst thing about being a student. The stress never disappears. What’s the best thing about being a media student? As long as you can find the theoretical background that goes with an activity you love you can justify doing a case study on the topic. I’m fresh back from the…

  • Excess Use of Network

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere is my daily good morning message from the ISP: Yesterday you exceeded the daily usage limit of 500MB as referred to in our Terms and Conditions. This type of activity could have a detrimental affect on our network unfortunately be forced to downgrade your service to a throughput limit of 56Kbs…

  • From One Culture To Another Through Podcasting

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the moment I’m listening to a lot of podcasts. Probably 5-10 a day on average. I go through one collection of podcasts and once that one is finished I move onto another. As a result of this, the culture of those I am listening to is sinking through. Yesterday I listened…

  • Podcasts and Bandwidth

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere have been a lot of discussions between podcasters and the amount of bandwidth that is needed to serve these files. Successful podcasters shift several gigabytes of data with each episode of their podcast and since everything is automated everyone requests and receives the file at this time. This means there’s a…