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  • Happiness and Social Media

    Happiness and Social Media

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is the turn of the Washington Post to discuss whether people are happier after leaving social media. As with every other article I have skimmed on the topic it discusses addiction and more without discussing the reason for which social media might be bad for one’s mental health.  Remember that social…

  • Video Editing And Social Media

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the past if you wanted to be a video editor you also needed to be a camera operator, and to be a camera operator you needed to be a video editor. By knowing both skills you shot good material because you knew how hard bad material was to use. As a…

  • Day 46 Of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Contemplating A Walk In The Rain

    Day 46 Of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Contemplating A Walk In The Rain

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s raining hard today and I’m still contemplating a walk in the rain. It should allow for some different photographs than usual. If I go to the motorway then I can photograph the vortices of wind behind trucks dragging up water from the road. If I go for my daily walk when…

  • Seesmic video and HTML 5

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember the video version of seesmic, the one that spawned.the francofous? Things changed for two reasons. Bandwidth issues and ressources. Flash would suck down the laptop battery within a few minutes. It meant that you could.only Seesmic from a fixed position. With html5 that problem will dissapear. What I look forward…

  • A “Transcribe this” button for seesmic videos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomething I would love to see on Seesmic, and which would encourage me to use it more is a “transcribe this” button for when I record certain videos. The logic is simple. Sometimes we discuss things that we would like to see discussed but not everyone wants to listen to us…

  • Twhirl and video recording

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoic Le Meur yesterday released Twhirl to anyone willing to give their name and e-mail address. As a result I am using the latest version of twhirl and it finally offers the ability to record straight from twhirl. That means you can record video straight from twhirl. No more web interface.…

  • Leweb was a great event

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesLeweb for me was about two things, meeting my seesmic friends and meeting new people. It’s through meeting friends that are familiar to me on the web that I had the best times. In particular I enjoyed meeting with Alex, nutrisionist 2.0 as is mentioned in his tagline. What was great about…

  • A busy few days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow I will be in Lausanne once more, this time to meet the people from Bloggy Friday. It’s Switzerland’s bloggers and social media types coming together for a chat and the traditional fondue (or so it’s been for the past few weeks) and an opportunity to hear about new projects. Last…

  • Ijustine, me and seesmic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo face to face meeting but I appear in the seesmic plug by Ijustine for the Macbreak Episode . It’s quite amusing to see me in the same video clip as her 🙂

  • The Social media Misnomer

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I spent three hours chatting to people in Australia, Sweden and France via both twitter and plurk and it felt great and the reason for this is that it was personal. We hear so much and read even more about the social media and the social web but there is…