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Social Media

How to find good music online with social media

January 20, 2010
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In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techb­log I star­ted talk­ing about vari­ous Inter­net Radio ‘sta­tions’. Today I real­ized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm
It’s not your aver­age music ser­vice.
Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music dis­cov­ery ser­vice, focused around the concept of Blips. To […]

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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

January 15, 2010
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter:

Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twit­ter?
The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter

Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion, Lists, new desktop […]

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Using Google Wave to ‘book club’ Trust Agents

January 6, 2010
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Earlier today I respon­ded to a tweet by @gregbd about form­ing a read­ing club for Trust Agents:

And now we’ve done it. It’s a pub­lic Wave that you should be able to find by search­ing with:public “Trust Agents” in the Google Wave search box, and since it’s pub­lic, feel free to join in and share your thoughts!
We’re […]

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I get a new label

January 4, 2010

The fol­low­ing post is a Quick­Hit™ — an art­icle or post I found online and thought was import­ant enough to share dir­ectly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opin­ions pre­pen­ded or appen­ded to this post, oth­er­wise I’m just scrap­ing con­tent, and that’s not the intent.

Accord­ing to […]

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Blogging at 31312 ft.

December 23, 2009
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As I write wrote this I’m was cruis­ing along at 485 mph, just over 30,000 ft. Over the Rock­ies.
This vista was shot with my digital cam­era, and wire­lessly uploaded to my flickr account.

The tech that let’s me post this (delayed, as my air­line doesn’t have in-flight wi-fi yet) is pretty com­mon­place these days — but […]

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3 books I’d give as Christmas presents

December 16, 2009

I’m spend­ing much more time in malls and shops this month — must be the sea­son.  One of my favour­ite places to spend time is a book shop. Any book shop. Some­thing about them just make me happy.
This year, I spot­ted three books that I’m con­sid­er­ing either giv­ing or get­ting for myself, just ’cause they’re so […]

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