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the week that was

August 22, 2008 – 9:10 am

so… not much to post about today but here’s a few reflections. My iPod Touch is getting better all the time - the release of the iPhone has resulted in a steady stream of new apps that can be installed on the iPod too and with its networking capability its just getting better and […]

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Social Media explained

June 3, 2008 – 8:53 am

Looking for ways to explain what social networking, Twitter, podcasting etc is all about?
Commoncraft do a great job of this with simple, cartoon like videos where they manipulate paper cutouts and a voice over using clear, plain English.
Here’s one on social media:

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
CommonCraft offer a number of free […]

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Google should buy Twitter

May 21, 2008 – 8:34 am

Well… not really but one of the biggest problems that I have with Twitter (which is a great idea) is its reliability. I just experienced not being able to get into it yet again. This follows closely from problems I had yesterday and on what seems like many previous occasions. So why […]

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ed.au blogs on Twitter

April 24, 2008 – 1:28 pm

Can’t force yourself to leave Twitter but still interested in the ed.au blogs? Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/edaublogger.
Cheers,
Jerry.

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on blogging

June 5, 2007 – 1:52 pm

Technology plays a large part in the work I do and while I have made a commitment to try and blog about technology and its application relation to our work it is interesting to see just how difficult this can be at times. There are some quite natural constraints for work blogging which in […]

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2007 Web 2.0 Awards

May 22, 2007 – 10:00 am

Well, SEOmoz’s 2007 Web 2.0 Awards have been out for a couple of weeks now. All the usual suspects are there such as technorati, bloglines, magnolia, furl, yahoo! local, craigslist, google docs, feedburner, 43 things, google maps, frappr, ning, flickr, picasa, linked in, digg, del.icio.us, pageflakes, and of course, YouTube. As you can […]

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on Twitter

April 3, 2007 – 8:52 am

Listening to TWiT 91 over the weekend, I was really interested in the discussion on Twitter and how engaged in it some of the panelists were. For those not familiar with it I encourage you to go have a look. Its another social networking service that gives you 140 characters to type in […]

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