Beth’s Birthday Mash
Beth is a blogging contact who is turning 50. She’s running a competition where you do a mashup for her birthday and submit it to her flickr pool. The winner gets $50 donated to a charity of their...
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Well it seems too much is happenning in my life at present. Which annoys me. It annoys me because I desire connection and in the world of connection sharing is key….another word I spin on that sharing...
View ArticleReality is sometimes…..
Yes, Stranger than Fiction. (No Signal) Photo by Whistling in the Dark I just got back from seeing the film Stranger Than Fiction. I state upfront I’m not a Will Ferrell fan and have come to expect...
View Articletwitter fragmentation
I like Kent Newsome. Besides the fact he has good taste in the blogs he reads (mine!), he seems to carve out his own way amongst the goat tracks on paddock blogosphere and stick to it. Recently he...
View ArticlePeople like to own stuff – ask a ninja about monetising atoms not bits
There was a profound important small discussion on the latest TWIT #97. Guest twit was Kent Nichols from Ask a Ninja and they were talking about merchandise. Kent made the comment that ‘people like to...
View ArticleMy blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya
Update: Tools and more tips here and here. Well, I got a signal in the ether from Beth Kanter about Alison Lowndes asking how Ali could best promote the AVIF Volunteers blog to get the message out...
View ArticleFacebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?
Kent asks a genuine question on his blog about the popularity of things like Facebook and Myspace. What is so much better about Facebook (and MySpace and other similar platforms) than an ordinary blog...
View ArticleIf it ain’t broke don’t fix it
That’s one of my chief guiding principals. If something does the job, go with it until it doesn’t. So, turns out there was something I wanted to do on this blog that my ole WordPress v1.5 install...
View ArticleKent swivels
Here’s my submission of blogs for Kent’s Swivel feeds experiment. jp rangaswami – confused of calcutta – http://confusedofcalcutta.comjp is a kind of information hero of mine. something about how he...
View ArticleMore on the latest silo wars
As a kind of update to my last post here, Doc, in his usual succinctness, hits the silo nail on the head. Social Silo Liberation Front …. I, like Dave, am snowed under by too many requests to join...
View ArticleConstellations of Context
“And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context”. Back here somewhere in 2005 I was hung up on the concept of context. Well, it’s recently been surfacing again and...
View ArticleExtraordinary Everyday Lives #032 : Introducing Kent
The latest EELS podcast is up. In it we welcome Kent as a new co-host. EELS 32 – 24th August 2007 – Introducing kent Interestingly, Chris Carfi, who we had on show #30, has posed a timely post on one...
View ArticleIsolated isolation post on Lifekludger
Sometimes I have troubles deciding where something I write fits. I’m torn between this blog or lifekludger. There’s so much of me that overlaps both. So, for those who might read this blog but not...
View ArticleDateline Melbourne – wordcamp – 1 = fast net access
So, I’m in Melbourne for Wordcamp. [melbourne.wordcamp.org] Nice apartment, fast, fast net access. See you there if you’re going…if not stay tuned. UPDATE: The above graph was created by the broadband...
View Articlewordcamp take-aways
Wordcamp to me was the right un-conference at the right time. At work we’ve been going through some tough stuff after getting near 50% of our budget cut earlier this year. I’ve been re-evaluating...
View ArticleHello, my name is David and I’m a blog addict.
Yes. According to this survey, I’m 84% addicted to blogging. 84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? And why the hell not. How addicted are you? Dave
View ArticleBirthday in 3 letters
Birthday in 3 letters Originally uploaded by dnwallace Was my Birthday today. 3 letters made all the difference. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/tags/birthday2008/
View ArticleLitfuse new blog workshops
Mike’s running some workshops for newcomers to the blogosphere. Here’s links to some newcomers. Testlambsy’s Weblog Testleroy’s Weblog Anneltest’s Weblog Testlobster’s Weblog Testlpearce’s Weblog...
View ArticleMiscellaneous small thoughts loosley blogged
Photo: Kamyar Adl Some thoughts of recent, spurred on by many things. I had been thinking about returning to more ‘stream of conscious’ blogging but hadn’t got there – so it’s about time I did. But...
View ArticleMark Pesce feed munger
After chasing all the places Mark Pesce chooses to write his missives, a tweet sent by @stilgherrian this morning asking Mark if he had a feed which gathers his writings from all the places it’s thrown...
View ArticleWatching ‘live coverage’ not ‘live stream’
How I watched the Apple “Lets Rock” event at 2.30AM laying in bed. *techcrunch using scribblelive *engadget with “refresh every” extension enabled *irc from #twitlive with user relay *oh…and twitter
View Articleventurousaustralia.com.au is go
When the Review of the National Innovation System was released last month we thought it was worth talking about on our podcast. So Myself, Mike and Laurel hooked up, to be joined during the show by...
View ArticleMunging Evernote as a blog publishing engine
evernote and wordpress Update: If you are interested in this post, you may also like to read a later one I wrote that uses the wp plugin “Everpress”. I’ve been, and always am, looking for ways to...
View ArticleEverPress – Re-visiting Evernote as blog publishing engine
Back in June last year I wrote about how I was trying to use Evernote as a way of publishing to my WordPress blog. At that time, I was using a third party plug-in for Word Press called WP-o-matic to...
View ArticleEnterprise: Social Media Staff Guidelines list
This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. via Enterprise:...
View ArticleListener’s Poker
Over on his blog, my mate Kent has started a game of listeners poker. He explains it like this: [It’s like] Liar’s Poker, but with sound. Somebody pick something good, and others try to top it....
View ArticleThe Ideal Length for All Online Content
Learn the ideal length of Facebook posts, tweets, blog posts, Google+ headlines, title tags, paragraphs, and so much more. The ideal length of a tweet is 100 characters The ideal length of a Facebook...
View ArticleMy response to yet another survey – Is your train station accessible? – ABC...
So.. ABC are running a survey on accessible train stations. If you’re a wheelchair user or care for someone in one, maybe you’re a parent using a pram or you just have trouble with stairs, take our...
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